PG&E signs another renewable power contract - San Francisco Business Times:

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The Northern California investor-owneed utility has signed another contract to buy power from a 92megawattg solar-thermal power project. will develop the Alpinde SunTower that willuse ESolar’s solar thermal technology. ESolar and NRG are partneringb to build 500 megawatts of solad thermal power across the southwesternUnited “ESolar’s power towers can be designefd in variable configurations and are easily scalable to meet the growingf and evolving needs of forward-looking power providers like PG&E,” said Bill Gross, CEO of ESolar.
Investor-ownesd utilities in California must sourcde 20 percent of their electricity sales from renewable sources by 2010 to complhy withstate law. PG&E has contractws to source more than 20 perceng of its power from renewable sources but only gets abouft 12 percent today because of the lengthy time it takes to get many of the renewablew technologiesto market. PG&E also has contracts to buy the powee producedfrom 1,300 megawatts of solafr thermal power plants from Oakland-based