Ausra to mass-produce solar thermal collectors

Ausra, the Palo Alto-based solar thermal company that just last month announced plans to build a 177-megawatt solar installation in California, is now in the process of launching a new business arm, mass producing its own flat-mirrored solar collectors. As reported in VentureBeat, it’s begun construction on a Las Vegas facility that it says will churn out enough solar collectors each year to produce 700 megawatts of energy. Ausra plans to have the 130,000 square foot plant completed as early as April 2008