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Stirling Engine Systems is developing equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems. Its most remarkable achievement is the recent contract with Southern California Edison to install a 500-megawatt plant that is expected to cover 4,500 acres of land with 20,000 large, dish-shaped mirrors and open in 2009. (ref (http://pesn.com/2005/08/11/9600147_Edison_Stirling_largest_solar/))

President Bush selected the Sandia National Laboratories location as a backdrop for his signing of the Energy bill Aug. 8, 2005, with Stirling Engine Systems solar arrays in view at the facility. The 500 MW purchase agreement with Southern California Edison was signed the next day on Aug. 9, 2005.

"I'm having a hard time thinking of how we can top that," said Bruce Osborn, Stirling CEO.

Table of contents

1 About

1.1 Official Website
1.2 Interview
1.3 Videos
1.4 Overview
1.5 How it Works
1.6 Stirling Engine
1.7 Coverage

1.7.1 PES Network News Stories
1.7.2 Other News Stories
1.7.3 Other Coverage

1.8 Contact

2 See also

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About

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Official Website

http://www.stirlingenergy.com
- Image Gallery (http://www.stirlingenergy.com/images.asp?Type=all)
- Solar (http://stirlingenergy.com/solar_overview.htm)
- future > Genset (http://stirlingenergy.com/genset_overview.htm)
- future > Biogas (http://stirlingenergy.com/biomass_overview.htm)
- Solar dish QuickTime movie (http://stirlingenergy.com/video/StirlingStreamMed.mov) (11MB)

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Interview

Download (http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/recordings/2007/070526_StirlingEnergy_BruceOsborn.mp3) - On May 26, 2007, Sterling D. Allan conducted a 1-hour, live interview with Bruce Osborn, CEO of Stirling Energy Systems for the of Free Energy Now (http://freeenergynow.net) radio series.

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Videos

http://www.nextenergynews.com/solarpower/solar37.html

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Overview

According to their website, Stirling Energy Systems (SES) is a systems integration and project management company that is developing equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electric generating systems ("gensets"). SES is teamed with Kockums Submarine Systems, NASA-Glenn Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and The Boeing Company for solar power plants. SES is positioned to become a premier worldwide renewable energy technology company to meet the global demand for renewable electric generating technologies through the commercialization of its own Stirling cycle engine technology for solar and genset applications. In the future, SES will also be participating in the biogas, and hydrogen markets.

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How it Works

Each dish unit consists of 82 mirrors formed in a dish shape to focus the light to an intense beam. The solar dish generates electricity by focusing the sun’s rays onto a receiver, which transmits the heat energy to a Stirling engine. The engine is a sealed system filled with hydrogen. As the gas heats and cools, its pressure rises and falls. The change in pressure drives the pistons inside the engine, producing mechanical power, which in turn drives a generator and makes electricity.

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Stirling Engine

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Coverage

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PES Network News Stories

Stirling Energy Systems set new world record of 31.25% for solar-to-grid conversion efficiency. (http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2008/solargrid.html/) (Sandia Lab press release: Feb. 12, 2008)

Eneco is Engineering Low-Heat-to-Electricity Conversion for Market (http://pesn.com/Radio/Free_Energy_Now/shows/2007/01/06/9700221_Eneco_thermal_electric/) - The science is done, what remains is to engineer for production, with applications such as waste-heat and concentrated solar energy harnessing. (PESN; Jan. 6, 2007)
- Mentiones Stirling Energy Systems as a possible application of this solid state thermal-electric conversion technology -- replacing the stirling engine.

Stirling Energy Systems Signs New Contract for 300 MW (http://pesn.com/2005/10/12/9600186_Stirling_300MW/) - Stirling engine design company has signed a second contract with a major utility in California. Newest contract has options to go to 900MW. Say it is grid competitive. (by Sterling Allan; PESN; Oct. 12, 2005)

World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology (http://pesn.com/2005/08/11/9600147_Edison_Stirling_largest_solar/) 20-year purchase agreement between Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in 20,000+ dish array, covering 4,500 acres, and capable of generating 500 MW -- more electricity than all other present U.S. solar projects combined. (by Sterling Allan; PESN; Aug. 11, 2005)

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