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Why concentrated solar couldn’t compete
- ▶ 1:29 Lara Pierpoint At the time, John was the CEO of BrightSource, a concentrated solar company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 Lara Pierpoint This week, I talked to John Woolard, the former CEO of BrightSource Energy, on lessons learned from the concentrated solar boom and bust.
- ▶ 4:54 Lara Pierpoint And the team behind Luz formed a new company that they called Bright Source Energy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:13 Lara Pierpoint BrightSource was planning to deploy this technology in its first commercial plant, a two-point-two-billion-dollar project in the Mojave Desert called Ivanpah, for the EPC work, or Engineering, Procurement, and Construction. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:04 John Woolard So once you had the debt able to close, which really came down to several things, but a lot of it was Bechtel being willing to stand up and say, hey, if BrightSource goes away, we will make sure the project still gets built. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Lara Pierpoint You've just said to your board, this isn't going to happen, and it sounds like you sort of tried to make the case we should pivot effectively into a silicon PV company, and even though this is a company that pivoted on its technology… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:43 John Woolard Firm and more strong that the company was facing not just a decision, but an existential risk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:17 Lara Pierpoint John Woolard is the former CEO of BrightSource Energy.