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Although a planned project to put solar on 160,000 military houses was nearly derailed by Solyndra's collapse, SolarCity and Bank of America Merrill Lynch announced today they will continue with a scaled-down version of the project.
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The two firms were among several companies at the Renewable Energy Markets Conference discussing the ways in which they're aligning their renewable energy and business goals.
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SolarCity said Friday that the Department of Energy won't be able to close a $275 million loan guarantee by its Sept. 30 deadline. The guarantee was to back a massive project that would bring solar energy systems to as many as 160,000 private military residences.
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SolarCity will install solar energy systems on the rooftops of another 60 Walmart stores in California, bringing the total to roughly 130, about 75 percent of its locations in the state.
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Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time, Starbucks holds third cup summit today, and more.
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USRG Renewable Finance and BofA Merrill Lynch will provide partial funding for the project, which could double the number of rooftop residential solar installations in the U.S.
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Renewable energy developments are dominating the news lineup today, including deals and projects with Toys R Us, Schneider Electric, Samsung and Toyota.
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The new Energy Initiatives Office Task Force will work with developers on 10-megawatt projects that may be housed on Army installations.
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Diversey's latest CSR report shows improvements in water, while energy use is flat and waste soars; PV installations boost home resale values; Fresh & Easy adds CNG trucks to its fleet, and more.
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Companies worried about engaging customers may learn a thing or two from SunPower, whose new online contest has boosted its Facebook community by nearly 70 percent.
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China outspent every other country last year on renewable energy; Lufthansa will become the first airline to incorporate biofuels into a regular route; House Republicans will bring to a floor vote next week a bill that would repeal a light bulb efficiency mandate.
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In the eternal competition between renewable energy and reducing demand, which is more valuable to companies?
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In the first of three events of our multi-nation VERGE conference, experts in Shanghai explored the potential scale and opportunity for VERGE innovation in China, which is mind-boggling, but, like most nations in the world, they've barely scratched the surface.
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The trouble ahead for renewable energy tax breaks, Eurostar's new carbon goals, and why EPA carbon rules won't cost businesses much, in our early roundup.
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Since its debut two years ago, the WorldFirst Formula 3 race car has garnered accolades, spawned research projects and proved it could drive wheel-to-wheel with its conventional Formula 3 counterparts.
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Green power, low-carbon employee commuting and energy efficiency are helping the business software giant shrink its carbon footprint.
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Rupert Murdoch revealed today that his media empire achieved carbon neutral status in late 2010. News Corp., home to a range of properties such as the Fox News Channel and MySpace, also unveiled a mix of short-term and aspirational long-term goals to guide its environmental efforts moving forward.
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Unwanted, thrown away food in the San Francisco Bay Area soon find new life as electricity. The East Bay Municipal District plans to dramatically boost the amount of food scraps it converts to energy via anaerobic digestion from 90 tons per week to 1,000 tons, or 200 tons per weekday.
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The Energy and Treasury departments released eagerly awaited guidance Thursday to help renewable energy project developers apply for roughly $3 billion in stimulus funds, which experts say will open the market to many technologies that weren't economically feasible before.
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The Obama Administration gave geothermal energy generation in the U.S. a huge shot in the arm Wednesday with the announcement of $350 million in stimulus funds to scale the barriers of tapping the Earth’s heat as a steady renewable power source.
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The city of Sanford, Fla., has found a new way to deal with its never-ending stream of wastewater sludge: converting it into renewable energy.
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Absorbing the increase in energy demand from PHEVs is just one of a myriad of challenges facing the electric power sector as it evolves in an increasingly carbon-constrained economy.
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Republic Services Inc. has converted a landfill cover into a flexible solar power generating system in what could be the first of several projects in the South Texas region.
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In this ClimateBiz.com Q&A, Miriam Horn, co-author of 'EARTH: The Sequel,' describes some of today's emerging cleantech innovators and the reasons they need a cap-and-trade to help bring their technologies to scale.
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Waste-heat recovery attracts less attention than other types of clean energy but a Chinese company is proving the technology can slash emissions at some of the world's largest corporations, and in some cases, generate a carbon credit revenue stream at the same time.