July 1, 2011

Solar Loans: Financing Your Path to Clean Energy

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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced offers of conditional commitments for loan guarantees, of approximately $4.5 billion, to support three alternating current Cadmium Telluride (Cd-Te) thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar generation facilities. The Department is offering a conditional commitment for a $680 million loan guarantee to support the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 project, conditional commitments for partial loan guarantees of $1.88 billion in loans to support the Desert Sunlight project, and conditional commitments for partial loan guarantees of $1.93 billion in loans to support the Topaz Solar project. First Solar, Inc., with headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, is sponsoring all three projects and will provide Cd-Te thin film solar PV modules for the projects from a new manufacturing plant that has begun construction in Mesa, Arizona, as well as from its recently expanded manufacturing plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, which serves as its primary hub for engineering, research and development. The company expects that the projects will create a combined 1,400 jobs in California during peak construction.

EXCLUSIVE Interview with Meg O’Neill, Manager of PlanetGreen.com and Treehugger.com

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Formerly an architect writer, eco diva Meg O’Neill now manages the great websites for Planet Green tv network (part of Discovery Network). Those websites are PlanetGreen.com and the infamous Treehugger.com. Listen to Meg and the Green Living Guy talk about how it all started, where the upcoming lineup is headed and how renewable energy is really the green energy of the future.
The interview took place in 2010 so you’ll understand when you read the interview and hear shows that are already on Planet Green or have been on the network. Here is my exclusive interview.
GLG: Green Living Guy here. Just hanging out, not freezing now. I was in my last interview with some people but now, not freezing. I’m hanging out. I’m talking with the great Meg O’Neill who, believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, is the editor of both planetgreen.com and treehugger.com. A superstar, rock star, you can’t even, it’s so hard. I’m so impressed, I’m so happy to be just in the presence of such greatness. How you’re doing, Meg O’Neil!