{"id":1906,"date":"2011-06-14T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/solarcity-gets-big-investment-from-google.html"},"modified":"2011-06-14T16:51:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T20:51:46","slug":"solarcity-gets-big-investment-from-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/solarcity-gets-big-investment-from-google.html","title":{"rendered":"SolarCity gets big investment from Google"},"content":{"rendered":"Google invests megabucks in <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/solar-no-money-down-in-oregon.html\">SolarCity<\/a>,\nthe California company that handles all financing of solar panels\nand provides them to the customer with no money down and a reasonable\nmonthly payment.\n<p>\nSteve Hargreaves wrote in CNNMoneyTech 14 June 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/06\/14\/technology\/google_solarcity\/\">\nGoogle invests $280 million in SolarCity<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/06\/14\/technology\/google_solarcity\/\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"158\"\nheight=\"102\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/money\/2011\/06\/14\/technology\/google_solarcity\/solar-city-rooftop.top.jpg\"><\/a>\nGoogle and rooftop solar power company SolarCity announced a $280\nmillion investment deal Tuesday, the largest such deal for home-based\nsolar power systems in the United States.\n<p>\nThe investment will give San Mateo, Calif-based SolarCity the funding\nto build and lease solar power systems to a 7,000 to 9,000 homeowners\nin the 10 states where it operates.\n<p>\nFounded five years ago, SolarCity has 15,000 solar projects around the\nnation completed or under way. Customers who wish to have the company&#8217;s\nsolar system installed at their home can pay for it outright, but most\nchoose instead to let SolarCity retain ownership of the equipment and\nrent back the use of it through monthly solar lease payments.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnother financing method is\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\">Solar Mosaic<\/a>,\nwhere people pool their money to buy shares in a solar installation.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: This post owed to M.J. Kuntz.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google invests megabucks in SolarCity, the California company that handles all financing of solar panels and provides them to the customer with no money down and a reasonable monthly payment. Steve Hargreaves wrote in CNNMoneyTech 14 June 2011, Google invests $280 million in SolarCity Google and rooftop solar power company SolarCity announced a $280 million [&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":[14,23,24,1019],"tags":[639,399,8713,8714,8812,3691],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-solarcity","tag-google","tag-investment","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar","tag-solarcity","tag-venture-capital"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-uK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","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=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}