Tech renewables leader Facebook is moving rapidly toward its goal of 100% renewable energy by 2020. The remainder of the switch will be a major feat, since the company consumed over 3.4 gigawatts of energy last year, of which 75% was renewable, according to the company’s sustainability report. “Facebook has … [continued]
The United States’ largest owner of utility-scale solar assets, sPower, has announced the completion of $786 million in financing which it will use to fund nine separate solar projects worth a total of just under 340 MW. The Salt Lake City-based independent power producer announced on Thursday that it had … [continued]
New Jersey loves setting rooftop solar power records. It did in 2009 when it opened the largest solar rooftop in North America (2.4 MW of capacity), again in 2011 when Toys”R”Us got a 5.38-MW solar roof, and again later in 2011 when a 9-MW solar roof was installed on a large Holt … [continued]
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting video on the chemistry of wind turbine blades (above) — interesting. 2. “A consortium led by GICON Grossmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH has developed a floating platform designed to be used for offshore … [continued]
