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	<title>Cleantech Blog &#187; Jigah Shah</title>
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		<title>First Institutional Project Finance Capital Raised for Urban Agriculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, NY, March 6, 2013 – It was announced today that prominent renewable energy investor Clean Feet Investors has provided BrightFarms with a $3M project equity facility; this investment is believed to be the first institutional project finance capital for a company focused on scalable, commercial urban agriculture. Clean Feet seeks to help socially [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Solar needs a new Metric</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<title>Denver Post screws up again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this oped with great sadness. I also sympathize with Louis Bacon&#8217;s case. That being said, to link the Louis Bacon case to solar being expensive is not only irrelevant but wrong. Why would you possibly link the two cases together. 1) It takes a long time to build transmission so I don&#8217;t think [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Cleantech Connect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just agreed to judge this contest. I wanted to see what you guys thought of contests like this. It seems like an amazing way for entrepreneurs to get recognition and differentiation. Cleantech Connect features the hottest and fastest growing Cleantech companies in Europe. For the second year running GP Bullhound, with premium sponsors Schroders [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Bobby Jindal is Blinded by Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Looking to the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 14:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BP Oil Spill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Robert Bryce&#8217;s 5 Myths shows Ignorance</title>
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		<title>The Right Way to do Solar Manufacturing in the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<title>Missouri Solar taking off</title>
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		<title>Vermont Yankee to be Shut Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Vermonters sent a message to President Obama and the nuclear industry today,” said Greenpeace’s Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio. “The nuclear renaissance is dead on arrival. We can retire old, decrepit and leaking reactors like Vermont Yankee and help usher in the energy revolution that America needs.” “When American’s have the choice about the kind [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss yarpp-related-none'>

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		<title>Investing our way out of the Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<title>Why isn&#8217;t there a Building Efficiency Trade Association</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it time for a real trade association for the Building Efficiency industry? I was thinking about this today. I have seen one that really does the job. For those of you that have been a part of the efficiency industry for a long time, you know that it is like a greyhound race. Companies [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Impact of Energy Efficiency on the System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jigar Shah, Founder SunEdison and CEO of the Carbon War Room I was looking at the new Homestar program on the Efficiency First website here: http://www.efficiencyfirst.org/home-star/ To start, it would be an amazing effort on the part of the Federal government. This comes on the heels of a huge effort on the part of [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Renewable Energy Reaches over 60% of new capacity additions in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jigar Shah, Founder SunEdison and CEO of the Carbon War Room As wind come out at a robust 9.9GW in 2009, Solar at maybe 600MW, etc, it looks like the zero-emissions folks will again install a majority of incremental MWs. The balance is mostly natural gas a little bit of Coal. Getting this number [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Jigar Shah, Founder SunEdison and CEO of the Carbon War Room This is an interesting article from Greentech Media. It basically is saying that if we are aiming to decarbonize our electricity grid we cannot do it without Nuclear energy.&#160; I like to break this down into bite size chunks so that I can [...]<div class='yarpp-related-rss'>

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		<title>Hope for Haiti &#8211; Solar Powered Rural Health Hospitals Saving Lives Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jigah Shah</dc:creator>
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