{"id":267,"date":"2007-01-04T06:39:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2007-01-13T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:42:33","slug":"walmarts-green-power-rfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/walmarts-green-power-rfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart’s Green Power RFP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA colleague sent this to me<\/a> 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<\/a> and Federal Express<\/a> (Oakland, CA sorting facility) has had solar cells on the roof for some time now.
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\nIndependent of this specific proposal, it’s great to see some large corporations make concentrated efforts to lead in this area.
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\nNote to Mr. LaMonica (author of the CNet piece) – the largest proposed single instance of solar generation is in China at 100MW<\/a> and Germany has a 12MW plant in production now. While Walmart could aggregate into 100MW size, it’s not quite the same thing. Still beneficial, no doubt.
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