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Understanding The Basics of Your Electricity Bill
Hello solar drops and droplettes! Electricity bills can seem quite cryptic to the uninitiated, so we are going to do our best to demystify the bills for our readers. It is our hope that you will gain a better understanding of your electricity usage, utility rates and schedules, how you can reduce your personal usage [...]
Energy Efficiency Data And The Capital Markets
Last week, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance(“BNEF”) hosted 150 property owners, energy efficiency project developers, ESCOs, banks, institutional investors and other thought leaders to discuss how improved datasets could spur the market for energy efficiency (EE) investment. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg’s CEO, kicked off the morning by discussing the company’s plans to [...]
Smart Grid Consortium from Pecan Street
The last few years have been somewhat of a blur for most of the people involved in Austin-based Pecan Street Inc. (Pecan Street). “In 2008, this was an idea on a napkin in a coffee shop,” says Brewster McCracken, the holder of the napkin and now executive director of Pecan Street. “In 2010 we secured [...]
SunPower To Build 1.3MW Solar Plant For EDF In Italy $SPWRA
SunPowerjust announced that it has been selected to build a 1.3MW solar powerplant in Italy for Solar Green Energy-SGE, a JV between EDF subsidiaryEDF-EN Italia and Italian project developer Emmecidue. The plant, whichis to be located in the Lazio region, will consist of 96-cell, E 18 /305 solar panels and SunPower T0 Tracker systems. In [...]
First Solar Teams Up With EDF in France (FSLR)
First Solar (NSDAQ: FSLR) is looking at building its second European factory in a French town near Bordeaux. The cadmium-telluride solar panel maker and Paris-based EDF EnergiesNouvelles are close to reach a deal with the town of Blanquefort tobuild a manufacturing plant there, First Solar said Monday. The two companies will jointly pay for building [...]
First Solar (FSLR), EDF In Talks With Blanquefort, France Regarding New Solar Manufacturing Plant
First Solar and EDF Energies Nouvelles just announced that they arein the end stages of talks with the French town of Blanquefortregarding the construction of a new solar panel manufacturing facility.The two companies plan to finance the plant together, then First Solarwill manage the plant operations and sell the solar panels produced toEDF for 10 [...]
EDF Energies Raises €500M For European Solar Plants
EDF Energies Nouvelles said Thursday it has signed a memorandum ofunderstanding with the European Investment Bank (EIB) to get €500million ($716.2 million) to pay for building solar power plants inFrance and Italy. The financing would be able to cover up to 50 percent of the costfor each of the projects EDF wants to build from [...]
EDF, First Solar Team Up On French Plant
EDF subsidiary EDF Energies Nouvelles and the US’ First Solar haveformed a joint venture to build France’s largest solar panelmanufacturing plant. The plant will have an initial annual capacity to produce more than100MW of thin-film photovoltaic (PV) panels, and will employ 300 peoplewhen it reaches full production during the second half of 2011. First [...]
The Rise of GreenMapping
I’ve reported on several different green mapping tools recently (here and here). But I didn’t connect the dots, so to speak, until reading a story in SustainableBusinessabout a “First-of-its-Kind” map released today. The piece describes anew online visual tool showing the location of some 2,200 greenbusinesses throughout the Golden State. It goes further than that, [...]