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Cake's New Album Goes Solar
Green Daily —
... . The roof of their Sacramento studio is covered in solar panels. Trumpet player Vince DiFiore estimates that the band only uses 10% of the energy generated during rehearsals which sends the excess back into the grid. The band used Borrego Solar Systems to transform their studio. ...
Cake bakes a solar album
The Alternative Consumer —
... . cake1.jpg The band worked with Borrego Solar to erect a sparkling new solar array atop their recording studio. The band also supports such non-rocker behavior as car-pooling, sweatshop-free t-shirts, voting and using re-usable shopping bags, which they sell for ...
Borrego Solar Raises $14M in First VC Round
Earth2Tech —
... Solar installer Borrego Solar Systems Inc. said Wednesday it has raised $14 million in venture capital financing. It’s the first round of venture capital for the El Cajon, Calif.-based installer, which didn’t disclose its investors except to say that it is a large corporation. ...
Borrego Gets Out of the Residential Solar Biz
Earth2Tech —
Borrego Solar Systems has looked at its bottom line and decided to drop its residential solar power installation business and stick with commercial and government projects, which it said yesterday represented more than 75-percent of its new revenue last year. Don’t worry about that residential ...
Solar panel prices to fall by up to 40 per cent by year end
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... confirmed it had begun volume production of what it claims is the world's largest PV panels at its factory in Spain. Moreover, US solar panel installation specialist Borrego Solar Systems announced it was to expand its commercial and government sales and installation business in a move that has also seen it sell its residential arm to Vermont-based ...
Solar Prices Drop, Deeper Discounts Expected
Earth2Tech —
... Mike Hall, president of installer Borrego Solar Systems, says he’s seen solar-panel prices drop some 15 percent in the last few months, and he calls this the first “real drop” in PV prices in the last three or four years. “They’re back to where they were when I started in the industry in 2002,” he says. “There’s no question they’ve dropped a lot and across the board. I haven’t heard of anyone who hasn’t been affected by price, some more than others.” ...
Spain’s Fotowatio Expands its Solar Reach in the U.S.
Earth2Tech —
Spanish solar power developer Fotowatio said today that it’s buying most of the assets of San Francisco’s MMA Renewable Ventures in a $19.7 million deal, a move that could make Fotowatio one of the largest solar power developers in the U.S.
MMA Renewables, ...
Gemini Solar to Build Big in Austin
Earth2Tech —
Gemini Solar Development scored its first deal this week, and it’s for one of the largest solar photovoltaic plants in the country — a 30-megawatt plant in Austin, Texas, that’s expected to go online by the end of 2010. The unanimous approval of the project by the Austin City Council ...
California's Most Generous Solar Subsidies
Greentech Media: All Content —
... easy. Like with residential solar projects, installers often have to worry about shading from trees and pitched roofs. The projects also aren't as big as some of the mega-solar projects being proposed by utilities. But the subsidies are nice. The state of California pays $3.30 a watt for solar panels to power common areas i.e., parking lots and hallways and $4.00 a watt for solar panels to provide power to individual apartments, says Richard Raeke, director of project finance at Borrego Solar . The subsidies can be determined by square footage if the complex is on a ...
Summer Project: Funding a Solar Project at a School
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... . While government-sponsored solar incentives hope to reduce that bill (and provide a fun educational opportunity for students), not all incentives are created equally.
When I asked Richard Raeke, Director of Project Finance at Borrego Solar Systems, to share his secret solar financing formula, he admitted his work is not easy: “I have a 17-page financial model to analyze the viability of any solar project.” He quipped he could work full-time just following all of the government incentive programs.
How can an average school district possibly keep up with changing trends? We ...
Solar Funds on the Rise: Borrego Launches Financing Deal
Earth2Tech —
... It looks like financing for solar projects may be starting to pick up again. Solar installer Borrego Solar Systems is set to announce on Monday that it will offer power-purchase agreements (PPAs) — contracts that provide the upfront financing of a solar-power system in exchange for agreements with customers to buy the resulting power — for its commercial, educational and governmental customers. ...
Should Renewables Be 'Made in the U.S.A.'?
Green Inc. —
... is pressing solar-panel prices through the floor. “Setting up a plant in an oversupplied market is just not a very sensible thing to do,” Ms. Chase said, adding that a better strategy would be to “accept that we’re going to buy cheap panels from China, then make jobs in putting them up.” Ms. Chase also noted that installation jobs, unlike manufacturing, can’t be outsourced. Other insiders, like Mike Hall, the chief executive of of Borrego Solar Systems , a solar installer, would like to see more government money invested in training workers to install solar panels and build ...
Eco Arts: CAKE to record their latest album on 100% renewable energy
Ecofriend —
... The solar array was installed by Borrego Solar, which gives CAKE a chance to break away from the city’s energy grid and rely on the abundant energy of the sun. Working on a new album, CAKE claims that they “feel satisfaction in the common denominator of together embracing the unlimited resource of the sun.” ...
We Need More Lobbyists! And Other Insights From Solar Power International
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
... . And at the same time, there is increasing momentum behind pricing fossil fuels not simply their cost of extraction, but on their cost to the environment as well. On the retail end, new pricing strategies are also opening the door to solar for consumers who are daunted by the high cost of installations. Power purchase agreements, or PPAs, which were pioneered by SunCity, but have been recently introduced by installer Borrego Solar and others, are contracts whereby homeowners and businesses essentially lease their rooftops or other available space to installers for little or ...
Ampulse Raises $8M to Marry Silicon With Thin-Film Production
Greentech Media: All Content —
... ). Some solar panel makers have dropped the prices for their products by as much as 50 percent earlier this year. The pricing decline has slowed in recent months, executives said at Solar Power International, the largest solar industry gathering in the United States, last week in Anaheim, Calif. "The price is falling slower and close to the bottom," said Mike Hall, CEO of Borrego Solar Systems , a solar energy system installer that serves California, New England and New Jersey. "Demand in Germany has picked up, and the [U.S.] federal stimulus money is kicking in." How will ...
The Icing on Cake's New Album? A Solar Sonic Studio (Interview)
Planet Green Articles Feed —
... by a company called Borrego Solar . Remember that name, Borrego. The California company gave the band a good deal on the equipment. Vince recently chatted with Planet Green about the new album, working with photovoltaics, and how all of his band's songs are actually "bummers." Cake is known for high-powered tunes like a cover of "I Will Survive" and originals like "The Distance," and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket." The songs are delivered in a pithy, rap-like style by singer John McCrea. Planet Green: So you play trumpet in a rock band? Shouldn't you be all about wind instead of ...
