Articles About Bloomberg New Energy Finance
- Author:
- Mark McDowell
- Posted:
- 07.06.2011
Google Goes Green
Google and SolarCity, a rooftop solar-panel company announced a $280 million investment deal, the largest such deal for home-based solar power systems in the United States. The investment gives San Mateo, CA-based SolarCity the funding to build and lease solar power systems to as many as 7,000 to 9,000 homeowners in the 10 states in […]
- Author:
- Mark McDowell
- Posted:
- 06.29.2011
GE Enters the Solar Power Business
The nation’s largest conglomerate – General Electric – is getting into the solar business in a big way with the firm’s announcement that it is investing $600 million to build a new solar-panel manufacturing plant as it pursues what it thinks could be a $3 billion business by 2015. The firm, already a leader in […]
- Author:
- Mark McDowell
- Posted:
- 04.20.2011
United States in Third Place in Developing Clean Energy Sources
The United States has fallen to third place – behind China and Germany – in the development of clean energy sources, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Investment in global clean energy expanded significantly in 2010 to $243 billion, a 30 percent increase over 2009. China, Germany, Italy and India were […]