ARCHIVED NEWS
- 2011
- Luminate to Sponsor Infocast's Projects & Money Conference
- SolarStrong Project Awarded $344 Million Loan Guarantee
- Luminate to Present at Infocast’s Project Finance 2011 Conference
- Luminate Presents at Utility Scale Solar Conference | Receive 15% Discount
- Desert Sunlight and Topaz Solar Awarded $3.8 Billion in Loan Guarantees
- Mesquite Solar Awarded $359 Million Loan Guarantee
- Ormat Technologies Awarded $350 Million Loan Guarantee
- Luminate to Present at Infocast's Utility Scale Solar Conference
- Luminate Sponsors Infocast's Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego
- Agua Caliente Solar Awarded $967 Million Loan Guarantee
- 2010
- Luminate Sponsors Infocast's Projects & Money Conference
- Chubu Electric / Tyr Energy Acquire Portion of Ownership Interests in Five Tenaska Generating Plants
- Luminate Sponsors Infocast's Biomass Finance & Investment Summit
- Abengoa Solar Awarded $1.45 Billion Loan Guarantee for Solana Project
- Luminate Sponsors Infocast's Utility Scale Solar Conference
- Luminate to Moderate “Utility Scale Solar Resource and Financing Considerations” Webcast
- Nevada Geothermal Power Gets DOE Loan Guarantee for NGP Blue Mountain
- U.S. Geothermal Gets DOE Loan for Neal Hot Springs
- Luminate to Present at Infocast’s Project Finance Conference
- Luminate serves as Independent Engineer on "North American Acquisition Deal of the Year 2009"
- Compliance Alert – Ethanol Producers
- Luminate Sponsors Infocast's Projects & Money Conference
- 2009
- Luminate Adds to Solar Practice
- Luminate Awarded DOE Three
- Luminate Honored As Energy Advisory Firm of the Year - North America
- Carbon Management Services
- Luminate Serves as IE on Midland Cogeneration Venture
- Luminate Unveils New Corporate Logo
- Luminate Presents at Cleantech Capital Summit
- Luminate Presents at Projects & Money Conference
- Luminate Sponsors Biomass Project Development Conference
- 2008
- 2007
NEWS
Luminate Awarded DOE Three
October 1, 2009
Luminate has been awarded three separate Matching Orders by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to serve as Independent Engineer. Under the innovative technology loan guarantee program, Luminate is providing independent technical and engineering advisory services to the DOE in support of the loan guarantee applications from Abengoa Solar, Inc., U.S. Geothermal, Inc., and Highlands Ethanol, LLC (a joint venture of BP Biofuels North America LLC and Verenium Corporation).
The three projects include Abengoa Solar’s 250-MW Solana concentrating solar power project employing thermal energy storage; U.S. Geothermal’s 22-MW Neal Hot Springs geothermal power project employing a supercritical, binary power cycle; and Highlands Ethanol’s 36 million gallons per year cellulosic ethanol and thermal energy project employing the Galaxy Biofuels process.

