{"id":36,"date":"2007-01-04T06:39:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-01-10T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T23:33:30","slug":"walmarts-green-power-rfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s Green Power RFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA colleague sent <a href=\"https:\/\/news.com.com\/Wal-Mart+readies+large-scale+move+into+solar+power\/2100-11395_3-6146851.html?tag=nefd.lede\">this to me<\/a> yesterday. I&#8217;m warmed (pun intended) to see Walmart take a bold move toward energy efficiency. Using the roof space on it&#8217;s massive buildings to host solar arrays may make some sense. Certainly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topix.net\/content\/kri\/1676668279359086278835567064700108229909\">Google thinks so<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewableenergyaccess.com\/rea\/news\/story?id=35351\">Federal Express<\/a> (Oakland, CA sorting facility) has had solar cells on the roof for some time now.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIndependent of this specific proposal, it&#8217;s great to see some large corporations make concentrated efforts to lead in this area.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNote to Mr. LaMonica (author of the CNet piece) &#8211; the largest proposed single instance of solar generation is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=226\">China at 100MW<\/a> and Germany has a 12MW plant in production now. While Walmart could aggregate into 100MW size, it&#8217;s not quite the same thing. Still beneficial, no doubt.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/renewable\" rel=\"tag\">Renewable<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/energy\" rel=\"tag\">Energy<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/solar\" rel=\"tag\">Solar<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A colleague sent this to me yesterday. I&#8217;m warmed (pun intended) to see Walmart take a bold move toward energy efficiency. Using the roof space on it&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}