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MIT students making solar power realistic

MIT students making solar power realisticno kiddingIn fact, the researchers believe that, because they can concentrate the heat from the sun so intensely, any water run near the focus could easily be vaporized to run a turbine and generate electricity.For crying out loud.I'm getting so tired of this.Here's all you...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, UCSD, Peak-Power, solar energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SolarCity

Discussion threads 2008-06-22

Florida going slowly solar?

Florida going slowly solar?Conspiracy theories?If you're the sort that likes conspiracy theories... here's a couple:1) Big Oil has it's eyes on drilling in the Gulf and so this is a way to butter up the State for that push.2) A respected university with a failed solar power plan (too costly,...

Tags: SolarCity, lease

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Additional Resources

New financing alternatives for solar power installations

One very tangible reason that people have been slow to adopt solar technology, other than its questionable current efficiency posture, is that very few of individuals or businesses have excess money to plunk down on the systems. There have been all manner of financing and credit and...

Tags: Solar Energy, kW, Financing, GRID Alternatives, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Churchill Club: Uber Entrepreneur: An Evening with Elon Musk

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity, talks entrepreneurship.  By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to...

Tags: Developer, Stock, Entrepreneur, CEO, Podcasts, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Solar to feds: Let's be creative about incentives for alternative energy investment

Remember how happy all the alternative energy tech companies were late last year when the government renewed the tax incentives possible for investing in their products? Well, now things are a little less euphoric, as the Obama administration grapples with how certain components of mammoth economic stimulus plan should REALLY...

Tags: Incentive, Alternative Energy, Investment, Leasing, SunRun, Capital Structures, Sales Force Management, Finance, Sales, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Solar advocacy group strikes deal for special pricing, financing

If you're a San Francisco Bay Area homeowner interested in installing solar technology AND you're looking for a break on what it will cost you, this post is for you. Everyone else ... well, actually, the deal could have relevance for your own local community sometime later this year. ...

Tags: Community, Solar Energy, Financing, Pricing Strategy, 1BOG, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-01-10

Brightening outlook for solar energy?

Wanted to add another couple of links related to Harry's post yesterday about SolarCity. The actual news of the day is the company's new 8,200-square-foot facility in Phoenix, from which it will run its SolarLease program. One thing that Harry didn't mention in his post is...

Tags: Solar Energy, Investment, Utility Solar Assessment Study, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Greening buildings with solar, ice tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Michael Kanellos, of CNET News.com, leads a discussion with executives on eco-friendly materials and technologies, and the future for green buildings. The panelists are: Malcom Davies, CEO of Michelle Kaufmann Designs; Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity; Kevin Surace, CEO of...

Tags: CEO, Emerging Technologies, Green

Videos 2007-09-13

Living green, building better

The above picture shows one of the homes designed and built by Michelle Kaufman Designs. GoingGreen, Davis, CA--green building panel. Malcolm Davis, Michelle Kaufmann Designs. Lyndon Rive, Founder & CEO, SolarCity. Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials. Frank Ramirez, CEO,...

Tags: California, CEO, Green, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-11