Google has today shattered its previous renewable energy investment record by announcing it has poured $300 million into SolarCity's $750 million fund for residential solar PV projects. The announcement dwarfs Google's $280 million investment in SolarCity in 2011, and serves as a bold statement of intent for the tech giant - and a ringing endorsement of solar power's growing prominence in the U.S. energy landscape. "Corporations are starting to realize the importance of using clean energy," said SolarCity chief executive Lyndon Rive. "Historically the companies that have financed solar deployment have been the big financial institutions and we've seen the movement in the sector of tech companies getting into the space and helping ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...
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