Sentences with phrase «bought for solar farms»
Today they're mostly being bought for solar farms in regions where other sources of power are very expensive — on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, for example, and the island of Ta'u in American Samoa.
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Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.
Recent examples include Apple buying a forest the size of San Francisco in the US for conservation purposes, building solar farms, protecting 1 million acres of forest in China and building solar farms there, etc..
Depending on where you live, you might be able to buy panels in a community solar farm and get reimbursed for the energy they produce and put on the grid.
For example, Georgia Power will save Georgians several hundred million dollars because of its Advanced Solar Initiative, which buys power from rural solar farms across the sSolar Initiative, which buys power from rural solar farms across the ssolar farms across the state.
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If Buffett was to buy Suntech (nothing's done yet), it would be a great stamp of approval for the industry; We already knew that Buffett thought wind and solar were attractive investments as the owner of many wind and solar farms (see below), but this would also say that the great investor thinks the makers of solar panels will also bounce back to profitability over time and the industry won't stay as cutthroat forever.
Further north, a solar farm proposed for construction across 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares) of the Panoche Valley, would generate nearly 400 megawatts — if it can survive legal challenges from environmental groups and clear other hurdles, like signing on a utility to buy the electricity and obtaining federal permits.