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By Michael Kanellos
2010 was in many ways a tough year for solar thermal power plants.
Federal and state agencies approved a number of plants and some companies such as BrightSource Energy managed to land capital, power purchase agreements and loan guarantees, but the mammoth nature of the projects continued to prevent the industry from taking flight. Stirling Energy and Tessera Solar (TSRA) gave up on trying to develop two
