Archive | Solar

02 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Four Hotels save almost $1 million annually through retrofit

According to this Enviromental Leader article, four Fairmont hotels in Canada are saving over $800,000 annually though several projects that include solar, hydro, and wind energy, a lighting retrofit and heat recovery that will cost between $15,000 to $500,000 – the payback time is between two to five years. Here’s a quick run-down of several [...]

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31 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency

Green Squared VP Business Development, Phil Stringer and President, Bobby Bragg, attended the CATEE (Clean Air Through Energy Efficiency) 2010 conference last week in Austin, Texas. Here are some notes from the conference: The conference was opened by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell, C. Donald Babers, Regional Administrator for Region VI, U.S. HUD and Texas Public [...]

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26 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Are solar carports becoming a reality?

It sure seems like I am seeing more and more articles like this one from the USA Today, titled, “Turning parking lots into vast urban solar farms.” And if it makes it into a paper like the USA Today, it is certainly mainstream. What are solar carports? Take typical surface parking lots — like ones [...]

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05 July 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Wall Street investing time and money in solar

Last week, we blogged here about a $100M tax equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The installations were to be performed by a company call SunRun. On Tuesday, June 29th, SunRun announced it closed a Series C round of funding for $55 million led by Sequoia Capital and joined by existing investors Accel Partners [...]

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25 June 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Solar gets more financing options

According to this article from the NY Times, P.G.&E. Corporation, the California utility holding company, has created a $100 million tax-equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The fund, managed by a P.G.&E. subsidiary, Pacific Energy Capital II, is the largest single solar leasing pool to date, according to the company, and marks the growing [...]

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