Tech giants and their uprising projects on solar

Created a $75 million fund with Clean Power Finance, a company that offers financing for residential solar panel installations.

The investment will enable 10,000 homeowners to install solar panels on their homes. Google is the investor in this case, and they will technically own the solar panels. The homeowners, who are essentially giving roof space in exchange for a chance to buy solar-generated electricity and they will pay a monthly fee. Google’s ROI comes through the electricity that is generated by the solar panels and sold to customers.

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Apple’s plan to build a huge solar farm to help power its recently built $1 billion data center in North Carolina.

Apple will reshape part of the slope of the 171-acre vacant lot next to its Project Dolphin data center to make it more suitable for solar panels. 

Apple also has entered into a joint venture with Zimbabwe government to distribute solar-powered iPads to remote rural schools in country.  http://macte.ch/jthUW).

 Intel’s Solar Powered IA microprocessor capable of unprecedented low-power operation. This technology is a concept that can tune power use so low that it can be powered off a small solar cell. This could lead to “greener” computing, more always-on devices, longer battery lives, and energy-efficient powerful many-core processors for use in everything from handhelds to servers and even supercomputers.

Samsung’s Internet Schools Programme will provide technology-rich learning and teaching environment to K-12 classrooms across five countries in Africa as a pilot programme (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan), and Samsung is planning to scale into more countries in the coming years and aim to reach 2.5 million learners in the next five years to 2015.

2006 — Microsoft is one of the early adopters of solar power. They installed solar electric system at the company’s Silicon Valley Campus (SVC). It was the largest of its kind in Silicon Valley when they introduced in April 2006. Generating 480kW at peak capacity, this system is composed of 2,288 tiles that will supply enough energy to power nearly 500 homes.


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