{"id":1222,"date":"2011-12-09T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/warren-buffett-thinks-theres-money-in-solar.html"},"modified":"2011-12-09T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:33:59","slug":"warren-buffett-thinks-theres-money-in-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/warren-buffett-thinks-theres-money-in-solar.html","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett thinks there&#8217;s money in solar"},"content":{"rendered":"Cassandra Sweet wrote for the WSJ yesterday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203413304577084171694555562.html?KEYWORDS=Solar\">\nSolar Plant Sold to Berkshire Unit<\/a>,\n<blockquote>\nFirst Solar Inc. is selling one of its large California solar farms to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Buffett\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/51\/Warren_Buffett_KU_Visit.jpg\/200px-Warren_Buffett_KU_Visit.jpg\"><\/a>\nMidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., ending the solar-panel maker&#8217;s search\nfor a buyer.\n<p>\nThe sale places MidAmerican Energy, a unit of Warren Buffett&#8217;s\nBerkshire Hathaway Inc., in the solar-power business for the first\ntime. MidAmerican operates fleets of wind farms and conventional\npower plants.\n<p>\nThe companies didn&#8217;t disclose terms of the deal Wednesday, but said the\nTopaz solar-power plant, in San Luis Obispo County, is worth more than\n$2 billion.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s more evidence there is private financing available for solar power.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Owed to Harry DeLano.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassandra Sweet wrote for the WSJ yesterday, Solar Plant Sold to Berkshire Unit, First Solar Inc. is selling one of its large California solar farms to MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., ending the solar-panel maker&#8217;s search for a buyer. The sale places MidAmerican Energy, a unit of Warren Buffett&#8217;s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., in the solar-power business [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,23,24,36],"tags":[3293,8704,713,3294,399,3295,8713,8714,3292,8716],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-wind","tag-berkshire-hathaway","tag-economy","tag-financing","tag-first-solar","tag-investment","tag-midamerican","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-warren-buffett","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-jI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}