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...such as wind and solar is not available....
...“In order to achieve our vision, we had to push into the renewable energy business but in reality, we weren’t doing much so we bought time,” Saito said....
...case for doing something about it....
...It already employs 1,000 people and will need another 300 as it adds facilities to make longer rail tracks. Without the cheap solar, the Russian company would have moved the operation elsewhere....
...On April 10, 2019 it was reopened by the charity Girls Inc as a house for troubled women too old for foster care but young enough still to need a supportive home....
...In the future, he speculated, Prologis might enter the energy business by using its rooftop solar panels to generate power for its customers’ electric delivery vans....
...Copper has the greatest thermal and electrical conductivity of any non-precious metal, so is a critical component in solar and wind power, for instance....
...I mean, from the customers you're talking to, are they concerned that China Inc, as it were, has cornered the market for battery materials?...
...preference (usually in its ESG policy) to favour investments that improve social and environmental outcomes where there is a reasonable expectation that the solar power investment will deliver as good a...
...So Standard has invested in drones to survey buildings, bought 3D mapping tools and established a solar division....
...We could see the threat of exponentially cheaper solar power — but recall what Joshua Gans said about Kodak and Blockbuster: “They knew what the future looked like....
...If it was the only thing Mr Musk was doing, sustaining shareholder enthusiasm might be hard....
...Yet even as competition heats up in China’s EV battery market, Mr Wang can take heart that Beijing is doing its part to stimulate demand....
...This gives him a good understanding of the Japanese way of doing business, which benefits Adaro....
...power firm Tencent’s Pony Ma overtakes Wanda’s Wang as Asia’s richest...
...China today has more than a third of the world’s windpower capacity; a quarter of its solar power; six of the top 10 solar-panel makers; four of the top 10 wind turbine makers and more battery-only electric...
...“Of course, the thing you should have been doing,” the Sage of Omaha has remarked more than once, “was shorting horses.”...
...(He is also developing a property that a colleague describes as an “end-of-times house”, with its own water and solar power supply, in a remote part of Canada.)...
...A senior Indian executive in the solar industry, who asked not to be named, says lenders such as State Bank of India now typically insist on proof of business experience in the sector and robust debt service...
...That’s what we’re doing here.” When he is pitching solar power to customers, the environmental benefits often come up, he says, but “at the end of the day it comes down to money first and foremost”....
...a construction manager for a solar-power company....
...The country is emerging as a formidable competitor to Chile since the business-friendly President Mauricio Macri came to power six months ago....
...“As prices for renewables have come down, it’s really started to make a lot of business sense.”...
...But doing nothing is not an option....
...“As interest in a business is passed down, and more and more people have ownership who aren’t directly committed to building the business but more interested in taking money out of it, then you get in this...
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