New Strategies for Rooftop Solar Power
Series: Building Priorities Briefing
From: Denis Du Bois
Length: 00:21:59
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Where else is this kind of program happening? Why would a building owner choose this over the other alternatives for rooftop solar?
Misery makes strange bedfellows. And so can a renewable portfolio standard. With about half of states now giving their utilities deadlines to get a certain percentage of their energy from renewables, utilities have been forging new relationships with real estate owners and the solar industry.
Utilities across the country are announcing plans to develop tens or hundreds of megawatts of solar generating capacity in partnership with building owners. It has the markings of a national trend that could be very good for the solar industry -- and for companies with certain kinds of commercial real estate.
In this month's program, Denis Du Bois is joined by Stephen Lacey of Renewable Energy World Magazine to discuss the new models for getting solar power on the roofs of large buildings.
Denis also interviews the sustainability director for a major real-estate investment trust, about that company's deal with Southern California Edison to lease the roofs of its warehouses for solar power.
The "Energy Minute" is about the primary ways a company can get rooftop solar, from a financial perspective.
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Where else is this kind of program happening? Why would a building owner choose this over the other alternatives for rooftop solar?
Misery makes strange bedfellows. And so can a renewable portfolio standard. With about half of states now giving their utilities deadlines to get a certain percentage of their energy from renewables, utilities have been forging new relationships with real estate owners and the solar industry.
Utilities across the country are announcing plans to develop tens or hundreds of megawatts of solar generating capacity in partnership with building owners. It has the markings of a national trend that could be very good for the solar industry -- and for companies with certain kinds of commercial real estate.
In this month's program, Denis Du Bois is joined by Stephen Lacey of Renewable Energy World Magazine to discuss the new models for getting solar power on the roofs of large buildings.
Denis also interviews the sustainability director for a major real-estate investment trust, about that company's deal with Southern California Edison to lease the roofs of its warehouses for solar power.
The "Energy Minute" is about the primary ways a company can get rooftop solar, from a financial perspective.
Transcript
Full transcripts will be available at http://buildingpriorities.com in early April 2010
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Timing and Cues
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00:00 IC: Anncr "This is the Building Priorities Briefing" - Music up; BB.
01:00 *silence* for inserting a break
01:01 B SEG. IC: "For the next 20 minutes or so..." - Energy Minute.
02:26 C SEG. IC: "Misery makes strange bedfellows. And so can..."
11:33 *silence* for inserting a break
11:34 D SEG. IC: "This is the Building..."
20:24 E SEG. IC: "Programs like SCE's..."
21:39 SOC: "...I'm Denis Du Bois"
22:00 Music out.
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