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San Francisco 49ers Go Net Zero with Help from SunPower
The San Francisco 49ers’ new $1.2 billion stadium in Santa Clara, CA., will zero out all its energy use during home games thanks to the 400 kilowatts of PV that SunPower and NRG Solar are providing the new stadium, which is slated for completion in 2014. It’s a zero that any NFL team can be [...]
UPDATE: Ivanpah Project 75% Complete
The 377 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating Station (SEGS) being built by BrightSource for NRG Energy has reached a significant milestone with construction now more than 75 percent complete. Since construction on this (concentrating solar power) CSP—or solar thermal—project got underway earlier this year it’s been going at a breakneck pace. By August, construction reached [...]
Google’s Renewable Energy Investments Top $1B
Google, a company that has been carbon neutral since 2007, is about to top $1 billion in renewable energy investments. The company is a huge energy consumer; its data centers’ operations use as much energy as nearly a quarter of a million households. But Google is using renewable energy not only to fuel its own [...]
Tom Doyle of NRG: Solar Industry Rebounds in 2012
After the buzzkill that was Shyam Mehta, GTM Research Solar analyst’s market outlook, Tom Doyle, the President and CEO of NRG Solar presented at the GTM Solar Summit and provided a number of reasons to be cheerful if not downright enthusiastic about being in the solar industry in 2012. Doyle remarked that Shyam Mehta’s solar [...]
NRG To Build 200 EV Charging Stations In California
Electric vehicles may be the solution to conventional fuel-based cars but the lack of charging stations means that commuters are left with little option when it comes to recharging. Of course, EVs can be charged at home but what happens when you need to take a long trip? Since you can’t very well ask a [...]
Philadelphia Eagles Go For The Green TD!
The Philadelphia Eagles are known for a number of things, like actually having a judge and jail cell in their stadium for overly rowdy fans. But you’d be surprised at how green the team is—beside their jerseys. While the team has sourced all of its power from renewables for nearly a decade, it’s bringing clean [...]
New England Patriots Install Solar at Gillette Stadium
Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots will triple the amount of renewable energy produced at the stadium and the adjacent Patriot Place shopping center with a 1-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) array. NRG Energy will install the project under an agreement The Kraft Group, which owns the complex. It’s actually the second solar installation at [...]
Are Subsidies Hurting Big Solar?
Americans seem unable to resist big things, and solar power plants are no exception. There may be no reasoning with an affinity for all things “super sized,” but the economics of large scale solar projects (and the unwelcome public scrutiny) should bury the notion that bigger is better for solar. In fact, smaller scale solar [...]
NRG Energy Acquires Green Mountain Energy Co.
NRG Energy Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Green Mountain Energy Co., a retail provider of clean energy products and services, for $350million in cash. Aligning Green Mountain’s green retail franchise with NRG’s growing portfolio of renewable power assets and developmentpipeline creates the foundation for a platform of clean energy solutions in Texas, [...]