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Latest EcoFriend product news
GE Energy Financial Services and Grupo Corporativo Landon have announced they will invest about US $350 million (€225 million) in Fotowatio, one of Spain’s largest solar power project developers. Fotowatio owns, operates and is developing almost 960 megawatts of solar projects in the fast-growing solar power markets of Spain, Italy and the United States. Existing investors in Fotowatio comprise investment fund Qualitas Venture Capital and Fotowatio’s management.
“By facilitating the growth of... [more]
Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures, hailed solar thermal technologies as the future of alternative utility scale energy during a keynote talk at the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) 2008 technology conference.
Khosla cited the availability of solar, its low startup costs, scalability, and high productivity as factors behind the industry’s imminent success, while simultaneously respecting the rapidly growing distributed generation market of PV, which he clarifies as being a different market. ... [more]
Napa Valley wine producer Far Niente was founded in Oakville, CA in 1885 and prospered until the onset of Prohibition in 1919, when the winery was abandoned. Oklahomans Gil and Beth Nickel revived the winery in 1979, restoring the estate to its original grandeur.
Far Niente has now gone live with its “Floatovoltaic™” solar array. The Floatovoltaic installation, developed by Thompson Technology Industries, Inc. (TTI), couples solar power with water, saving valuable vineyard acreage from being... [more]
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