Via Greentech Media, a report that General Motors Ventures has invested $7.5 million into Sunlogics, which makes solar-powered garage stalls with amorphous silicon solar panels. Yet another indication of the investment community realizing the area over a parking lot or top of a building has been a non-performing asset for businesses. Adding solar turns them […]
Read more »Via The Sierra Club, an interesting report on the impact that white roofs could have upon global climate: Temperatures soar to 104o F here in downtown DC, but the humidity makes it feel like 120. City-dwellers squint and grimace. Tourists shield their bodies with light-colored fabric, like nomads trekking across the Sahara. We swelter. Last […]
Read more »Via GigaOm, a report detailing a recent decision by the California Public Utilities Commission voted to give renters of apartments or other multi-tenant housing access to a so-called virtual net metering program, which allows renters to get credits on their utility bills for the electricity produced by a communal solar system on their complex. “…The […]
Read more »Via Celsias, an interesting article summarizing the differences between green roofs and white roofs in contributing to global warming reduction in a positive way: “…The short answer is that they are both good in their different ways and in any particular situation it depends on what you are wanting to achieve as both types produce […]
Read more »Via Earth Techling, a report on an interesting financial innovation that allows private investors to own the solar power systems installed at public schools while still receiving substantial associated tax benefits. “…That concept is swiftly becoming a reality in Gainesville, Fla., where Gainesville Regional Utility‘s (GRU) feed-in tariff system will be instrumental in bringing renewable […]
Read more »Via Forbes, an article discussing the trend towards bundling solar leases into an asset-backed security: “…When solar entrepreneur Edward Fenster looks across the roofs of photo voltaic panels his company has installed on thousands of homes, he sees not just a source of clean green electricity but also security. An asset-backed security, that is. Fenster […]
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