eSolar, Inc. Overview
Headquarters: California, US
Founded: 2007
Company Working: Offering CSP technology in a cost competitive way with conventional fossil fuel sources, eSolar designs large-scale solar collector fields that are capable of harnessing its thermal energy. The company is a manufacturer of unique small individual mirrors that can track the sun and reflect the sunlight to heat up a working fluid in a mounted tower. The company’s heliostats can offer steam power, store thermal power and process heat to several operations such as desalination, power generation and enhanced oil recovery. Its heliostats utilizes innovative calibration systems to achieve the best pointing accuracy using simple hardware. Installation of the eSolar CSP field can be accomplished with minimal tooling and labor.
The company predominantly operates in the US and emphasizes on developing, inventing and delivering the most cost effective and reliable concentrated solar power solutions. Its products are used in power and non-power applications, such as, synthetic oil production, oil refining, steam reforming, biomass-based ethanol production, hydrogen production, smelting, distillation and cement production, water desalination, and industrial process heat applications.
Strategy
The company focuses on implementing CSP solutions with a unique approach. The company emphasizes not only on enabling CSP technology for power generation but also on energy intensive applications such as enhanced oil recovery, desalination process and solar thermal energy application. The production process of the company involves in thecost effective solutions, which enables it to reduce costs, and improve products while allowing easy installation. With their unique approach to CSP installation, eSolar has brought down maintenance costs and simplified its operations.
