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  Walmart’s Green Power RFP

  01.04.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Walmart’s Green Power RFP

  A colleague sent this to me yesterday. I’m warmed (pun intended) to see Walmart take a bold move toward energy efficiency. Using the roof space on it’s massive buildings to host solar arrays may make some sense. Certainly Google thinks so and Federal Express (Oakland, CA sorting facility) has had solar cells on the roof […]

• Business, Energy

  Interesting Funding Model

  01.03.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Interesting Funding Model

  One of our Partners brought this to my attention this morning and I thought it was worthy of a mention. Polaris Geothermal has completed it’s first round of equity financing recently using what looks to be a “spec company” approach – they seem to have a different approach in Canada to getting this done. See […]

• Business, Energy

  Looking to sell renewably generated electricity?

  12.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Looking to sell renewably generated electricity?

  Then we at Montara Ventures want to speak with you. If you meet the following requirements, and want to sell your electricity, contact us: Electricity generated by some verifiably renewable means Ability to sell more than 80,000 MWh/year Desire to enter into a long term business relationship (>5 years) Location on or near US West […]

• Business, Energy

  1,500 MW Wind Power Purchase

  12.23.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on 1,500 MW Wind Power Purchase

  This week, Southern California Edison signed an agreement with Alta Windpower Development, LLC. (subsidiary of Australia’s Allco Finance Group) to purchase the output of an aggregation of projects to produce some 1,500MW of electricity from turbines located in Tehacapi. That’s renewable at utility scale and it’s very exciting to see. I strongly suspect that a […]

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  Cool new DoE resource

  12.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Cool new DoE resource

  The Energy Information Administration (part of DoE) has launched a new website that provides a comprehensive overview of energy consumption, production, and distribution across the US, with deep dives into each state. It’s pretty cool (though there is room for improvement as the Imperial Valley in California is missing as a geothermal producer for example.) […]

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