headquarters 2880 zanker road ste 203 san jose ca 95134 united states area served worldwide key people edmund kelly president products solar pv kites slogan a practical solution for world energy website stratosolar.com stratosolar 1 is a startup corporation created to develop buoyant stratospheric platforms for collecting solar energy . they have applied for two patents . the current concept stratosolar pv envisions photovoltaic cells lifted above the clouds by means of lighter than air gas bags 2 with up to 3.5 x more power produced per unit area than ground based solar arrays due to better exposure and also lower operating temperature . 3 the original concept was to concentrate and direct light concentrated by a buoyant cassegrain reflector telescope structure down a buoyant reflective pipe 4 to the ground for use in conventional steam turbine power generation . in both cases minimal land use compared to earth based photovoltaics is a stated benefit . references edit price toby september 27 2011 . stratosolar kites could already be producing grid parity solar energy . renewable energy magazine . retrieved november 14 2011 . brian wang august 21 2013 . stratosolar now a straight photovoltaic system halfway between space based and desert solar . next big future . retrieved mar 15 2016 . stratosolar home page . retrieved april 28 2013 . stratosolar home page circa 2011 . archived from the original on february 18 2011 . retrieved february 18 2011 . cs1 maint unfit url link external links edit company website v t e solar power in the united states solar power energy in the united states by state alabama alaska arizona arkansas california colorado connecticut delaware florida georgia hawaii idaho illinois indiana iowa kansas kentucky louisiana maine maryland massachusetts michigan minnesota mississippi missouri montana nebraska nevada new hampshire new jersey new mexico new york north carolina north dakota ohio oklahoma oregon pennsylvania rhode island south carolina south dakota tennessee texas utah vermont virginia washington d.c. west virginia wisconsin wyoming power plants current agua caliente alamosa antelope valley avenal avra valley blue wing blythe photovoltaic brockton california valley campo verde solar project catalina centinela cimarron copper mountain crescent dunes davidson county desert sunlight desoto el dorado genesis solar energy project holaniku imperial county imperial valley ivanpah kimberlina long island martin mesquite mojave mount signal nellis nevada solar one red hills san luis valley sierra suntower silver state north solana solar energy generating systems solar star space coast sunset topaz webberville wyandot planned and under construction alamo amargosa blythe boulder buckthorn california flats castle gap desert harvest four brothers lamesa mccoy moapa north rosamond north star panoche valley redwood rice roserock silver state south soda mountain sonoran springbok stateline sun streams sunshine valley three cedars westlands white camp willow springs companies abengoa solar ascent solar ausra bp solar brightsource esolar enviromission first solar grape solar heliopower meridian solar practical solar sharp solar skyfuel skyline solar solaren solarreserve solopower sopogy stratosolar stirling energy systems sunedison sunrun yingli organizations american council on renewable energy solar energy industries association residential solar power 1bog citizenre community solar farm heliopower pace financing rec solar sungevity solarcity solarstrong sunlight solar energy sundog solar sunetric sunrun sunpower category commons this article about a united states company or corporation involved in the energy industry is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title stratosolar & oldid 739682283 categories companies based in san jose californiacompanies established in 2008solar energy companies of the united statesunited states energy company stubshidden categories cs1 maint unfit urlall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 september 2016 at 08 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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