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America's Leading Companies Continue to Invest Big in Solar Power

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ZVUGKTUBM

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America's Leading Companies Continue to Invest Big in Solar Power

http://www.pennenergy.com/articles/pennenergy/2014/10/america-s-leading-companies-continue-to-invest-big-in-solar-power.html

 Reflective of the growing popularity and increasing growth of solar nationwide, many of America’s leading Fortune 100 companies continue to significantly ramp up their use of clean solar energy… 



….top corporate solar users, shows Walmart at the top of the list for the third year in a row with 105 megawatts (MW) installed at 254 locations. 



Rounding out the Top 25 companies utilizing solar are Kohl’s, Costco, Apple, IKEA, Macy’s, Johnson & Johnson, Target, McGraw Hill, Staples, Campbell’s Soup, U.S. Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond, Kaiser Permanente, Volkswagen, Walgreens, Safeway, FedEx, Intel, L’Oreal, General Motors, Toys “R” Us, Verizon, White Rose Foods, Toyota and AT&T. 



Combined, these blue chip companies have deployed 569 MW of solar capacity at 1,100 locations – a 28 percent increase over a year ago and a 103 percent increase since 2012….



“What do Walmart, Costco and Apple have in common besides selling cell phones and computers? These iconic brands, and many others like them, are all investing big in solar energy,” said SEIA President and CEO Rhone Resch…. 





Z’s analysis: I think it is exciting to see an article about solar power appear in the online newsletter of the Oil & Gas Journal. Why are Fortune 100 companies investing big in solar? It is not because they are worried of climate change initiatives. These are “green” initiatives for them because that is the color of moolah. They are doing this because they see future value for themselves and their shareholders as the cost of solar-electricity continues to plummet. Things like this will help propel solar to the top of the renewable-energy alternatives and will eventually open the door to widespread-deployment of distributed generation of solar electricity throughout our communities. One day, real estate agents like poster Markle will be selling homes that have rooftop-solar installations, both standard and retrofited. 

News like this article should make those concerned about climate-change happy.

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It tells me that the prices of energy will be "necessarily skyrocketing".

Markle

Markle

HUGE TAX CREDITS AND WRITE OFFS

Here I thought Progressives didn't like such things....

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Fusion will probably eclipse solar before it can be a viable alternative. Imagine the waste of resources on the beta of energy.

ZVUGKTUBM

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PACEDOG#1 wrote:Zzzzzz
Knock this as you wish.... You know I am no climate-change fanatic, and I report here a lot about America's renaissance in oil and gas production. I am big on energy because it is a necessary component of a vibrant and thriving society. The more energy we can make here, either from the sun or from our own petroleum resources, the less we have to depend on Middle East and third-world potentates to supply our energy needs. A good thing, eh?

Solar energy has a huge future here and in other developed countries. We will very soon see grid-level storage ( http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/spinoff-ambri-liquid-metal-battery-will-revolutionize-energy-storage-0903 ), which will make wind and solar even more important, because then the electricity they make can be stored for use after the sun goes down/wind is low.

Rooftop Solar May Reach Grid Parity In 25+ States By 2017:

America's Leading Companies Continue to Invest Big in Solar Power States10

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/rooftop-solar-may-reach-grid-parity-25-states-2017/

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Eric posted this on the other forum:

http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/lockheed-says-makes-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy-project/#Tjvfo31iTRlXEJ9R.99

ZVUGKTUBM

ZVUGKTUBM

PkrBum wrote:Eric posted this on the other forum:

http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/lockheed-says-makes-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy-project/#Tjvfo31iTRlXEJ9R.99

Wow... I can't wait for the writers over at Energy & Capital to pontificate about this. This should be HUGE news. I get a lot of the stuff I write about here from them:

http://www.energyandcapital.com/

I also have small investments in some of their stock-picks (oil & gas, a little solar, and now trying to buy some stock for a biodiesel firm).... Not getting rich from any of those but having fun with a little monopoly-money.

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Markle

Markle

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:
PACEDOG#1 wrote:Zzzzzz
Knock this as you wish.... You know I am no climate-change fanatic, and I report here a lot about America's renaissance in oil and gas production. I am big on energy because it is a necessary component of a vibrant and thriving society. The more energy we can make here, either from the sun or from our own petroleum resources, the less we have to depend on Middle East and third-world potentates to supply our energy needs. A good thing, eh?

Solar energy has a huge future here and in other developed countries. We will very soon see grid-level storage ( http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/spinoff-ambri-liquid-metal-battery-will-revolutionize-energy-storage-0903 ), which will make wind and solar even more important, because then the electricity they make can be stored for use after the sun goes down/wind is low.

Rooftop Solar May Reach Grid Parity In 25+ States By 2017:

America's Leading Companies Continue to Invest Big in Solar Power States10

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/20/rooftop-solar-may-reach-grid-parity-25-states-2017/

What a joke. PHYSICALLY it could not be done in two years. It would be easier to have a unicorn in every back yard.

Left to it's own devices and solutions the free market will cure the problem in due time.

2seaoat



What a joke. PHYSICALLY it could not be done in two years. It would be easier to have a unicorn in every back yard.

Left to it's own devices and solutions the free market will cure the problem in due time.



Windmills, solar, and atomic are all real alternatives and all are necessary. I remember reading here that wind was a fluke and it made no sense. It is booming. The idea that oil, gas, and coal did not get subsidy is foolish. The economic impact of wind on midwest agricultural land is huge. Increased revenues for local school districts great maximization of agricultural land where farmers are getting great income flows, jobs are being created and the source of the power for this generation is almost infinite. The free market is working. Perfectly. Solar, wind, and nuclear will expand.

Markle

Markle

2seaoat wrote:What a joke. PHYSICALLY it could not be done in two years. It would be easier to have a unicorn in every back yard.

Left to it's own devices and solutions the free market will cure the problem in due time.



Windmills, solar, and atomic are all real alternatives and all are necessary.  I remember reading here that wind was a fluke and it made no sense.  It is booming.  The idea that oil, gas, and coal did not get subsidy is foolish.   The economic impact of wind on midwest agricultural land is huge.  Increased revenues for local school districts great maximization of agricultural land where farmers are getting great income flows, jobs are being created and the source of the power for this generation is almost infinite.   The free market is working.  Perfectly.  Solar, wind, and nuclear will expand.

IF the free market was working in the solar wind or whatever, there would be no subsidies. People would be buying them because they made economic sense.

ZVUGKTUBM

ZVUGKTUBM

PkrBum wrote:Eric posted this on the other forum:

http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/lockheed-says-makes-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy-project/#Tjvfo31iTRlXEJ9R.99

Here is the Aviation Week article on Lockheed's work. It appeared in their daily digest, which I get by email:

http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details

It is exciting that LockMart's 'Skunk Works' is undertaking the work. They make things happen. In 5 years they will prove the concept, and have an early production version 5 years later. It uses deuterium made from sea water, and tritium derived from lithium. A unit the size of a semi-truck trailer can power 80,000 homes, using about 55 lbs. of fuel per year. There is no chance of a meltdown and  when a reactor is decommissioned, parts of it will only retain radioactivity for about 100 years. They expect that the design will improve as time goes by.

I will be definitely following this........ Thanks for revealing it here, Pkrbm.

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boards of FL

boards of FL

Z, you would probably like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/

They discuss this sort of thing over there all the time.


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ZVUGKTUBM

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boards of FL wrote:Z, you would probably like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/

They discuss this sort of thing over there all the time.  

Thanks, Boards. My daughter is of your generation and she is a big Reddit fan.

The future of energy is in electricity. This is because it can be generated by a host of different means, and the energy can be used in a host of different ways.

Princeton emeritus and author Dr. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, who is a petroleum geologist by profession and training, claimed in one of his books that future generations will stand aghast that we actually burned petroleum as fuel when it has so many other uses.

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