Gates-backed company is using robots to build mega solar farms

Terabase Energy, a company looking to make massive solar farms economically viable, has received a co-sign from Bill Gates in the form of a cash infusion from Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on climate change solutions. 

The move marks what may be the next step in ratcheting up capacity and building towards utility-scale solar farms that can add terawatts worth of solar power to the grid.

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