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With its offer to acquire SolarCity, Tesla wants to create the world’s first vertically integrated clean energy company encompassing everything from power generation, to storage and to transportation. As one company, Tesla (storage) and SolarCity (solar) can create fully integrated residential, commercial and grid-scale products that improve the way that energy is generated, stored and consumed. Tesla has offered an all-stock offer of $2.6 billion for SolarCity (Szal, Tesla, SolarCity Hope Merger

Altman’s Z-score Formula Mary Carnahan QN320 – Essential Statistical Thinking July 27, 2016   Introduction How does Altman’s z-score formula work and how can we make predictions using this formula. I’m going to look for an article online in which someone has made a prediction using the formula. Also, I’m going to explain how the z-score formula is used within the business and financial world. How does this formula ultimately help businesses and financial institutions make key decisions

In the Valley of the Sun, where cloudy days are few and far between, one would think rooftop solar is a great way to reduce or eliminate your utility bill. This paper will focus on three aspects of deploying rooftop solar: cost, efficiency, and permitting. For those thinking of pulling the trigger on this popular energy saving option please read on. Rooftop solar is comprised of solar panels, an inverter, and a meter connection to the electric grid. Solar panels are made from different types of

Kiva Speech Hey there! Do you know what a Kiva is? A Kiva is a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs with an idea to build a or grow a business by lending them small amounts of money collected from donors, investors, and crowd funders from all over the world. The person with the idea or business plan, submits an application to the Kiva for review and approval. Once it is approved the idea or business is posted for review. The donor then decides to invest in an idea or a person

We all rely on some sort of power source for our household appliances, devices, lighting and entertainment needs. Sadly, the electricity used in the majority of our homes are powered by something dangerous, fossil fuels. Fossil fuels release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and gradually disrupts nature and pollutes the air. Now imagine a reliable alternative source of energy that can fix this issue. Solar energy is the answer. We cannot reverse the devastating damages caused by fossil fuels

Oberlin college is ranked as the 4th greenest college in America by popularmechanics.com which makes sense. It incorporates sustainability into its curriculum, while still maintaining its use of brand new technologies such as solar panels and electric cars. Campuses that are more sustainable seem to have two main characteristics: they are regularly in rural settings, which they use to their advantage by having big farms and creating nature reserves, and they invest in more environmentally friendly

Solar panel, which full name is called solar panel electricity systems, also known as solar photovoltaics, capture the sun 's energy using photovoltaic cells. These cells do not need direct sunlight to work, they can still generate some electricity on a cloudy day. The cells convert the sunlight into electricity, which can be used to run household appliances and lighting (energy saving trust, 2014). At the beginning of solar panel 's carry out, it is not known to many people who are used to the traditional

Increasing the Efficiency of Photovoltaic Panels by Trapping and Reflecting Light Energy Introduction: Objectives: To create a more reflective and efficient photovoltaic roof panel in order to allow buildings with photovoltaic-panel roofs to meet LEED standards. Justification (need/specification): This work is important as our carbon intake is much too high and if we are to reduce it so by 2050 we only have twice as much CO2 in the atmosphere as we do now. At this point, we are due to have three

Introduction Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) holds the largest population in the world without electricity; about 70% of the total 1.3billion energy-poor around the world . The energy structure in SSA is challenging and dubbed by possessing inadequate capacity and unreliable means with high costs. In addition, the most expensive prices for access to electricity are paid by some of Africa’s poorest. Fortunately, distributed power in Africa does not have any policy regulations or grids to upkeep . Solar energy

The Rise of Solar Stadiums: Assessing the Motives and Environmental Impact Super Bowl XLVIII. February 2nd, 2014. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As time expires, Mason Crosby kicks a field goal that soars through the uprights and hits . . . a wind turbine? Suddenly, this scenario does not sound so far-fetched: the Philadelphia Eagles have announced their intention to convert Lincoln Financial Field into the “world’s greenest stadium” (Bauers). As part of the initiative, the Eagles plan to take