Solaren, Inc. is a Southern California startup corporation created to use solar energy for terrestrial electricity usage.
[6] Solaren plans to provide this electrical power to PG&E's customers from solar panels mounted on satellites placed in Earth's orbit.
The satellite would convert this energy into radio waves and send it to a receiving station in Fresno County, California.
The plan is to provide 200 megawatts of continuous power, estimated as the average usage of 150,000 homes.
The concept was first dreamed up in 1941 by science fiction author Isaac Asimov in his short story "Reason",[7] and was later described scientifically by Peter Glaser in 1968.