Bruce Anderson

Bruce Norman Anderson is the Chairman and CEO of 247Solar Inc. of Great Falls, Virginia. This firm is commercializing a modular, coal-competitive concentrated solar power (CSP) system based on two clean-energy technologies invented at MIT: an ultra-efficient industrial heat exchanger and an ultra-efficient microturbine. This system, the 247 Solar PlantTM, is designed to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of weather, at costs competitive with fossil-fuel-generated electricity. 247Solar is an MIT-related spin-off enterprise launched by Ignite Technology Ventures, an incubator Bruce founded in 2000 to commercialize MIT technologies.

Bruce began his clean-energy career more than four decades ago in 1973 when he completed his MIT masters-degree thesis in architecture on applications of solar energy to building design. By age 30, this manuscript had been published by McGraw-Hill in 1977 as the professional book Solar Energy: Fundamentals in Building Design and as the bestselling popular book, The Solar Home Book (Brick House/ Cheshire Books, 1977). Both books were translated into several languages. He has also authored or coauthored four other energy books.

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