http://www.eet.com/at/news/showArtic...cleId=53700939
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Under a multiyear Energy Department contract that started in 2004, Stirling Energy Systems will supply Sandia National Laboratories with solar dishes for integration into full-fledged power-generation substations capable of direct connections to the existing U.S. power grid. Right now about 20 EEs, including more than a dozen from Stirling Energy Systems, are working full time at Sandia to create the electrical-control systems to manage these sunshine stations.
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If the project succeeds, the DOE predicts that by 2011, Stirling solar-dish farms could be delivering electricity to the grid at costs comparable to traditional electricity sources, thereby reducing the U.S. need for foreign sources of fossil fuels.
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There is some hope for solar power after all. Not that DOE can't fall a few years behind their planned schedules (believe me), but it sounds like a good possibility that we'll see this as a large scale means of power generation within 20 years.
