Clean Power Finance connects investors, solar providers and gets $75M from Google

Search giant Google today announced it has made another large investment in a residential solar provider, this time dropping $75 million into Clean Power Finance, an online service that connects solar panel installers with investors.

Clean Power Finance connects solar …

How to change the world: advice from Facebook, the Kinect team, Elon Musk & Salman Khan

Rockets, electric cars, motion-sensing interfaces, free math education for all, and a social network that’s closing in on a billion people.

Don’t you wish you could ask the legendary innovators behind these great ideas what it really takes to change …

Solar-leasing startup SolarCity sells subsidized electric car chargers

Solar panel leasing company SolarCity announced today that it will begin selling 240-volt electric car chargers manufactured by ClipperCreek for $1,500 for customers that currently lease solar panels.

The “Level 2″ 240-volt chargers can charge an electric car like the …

SolarCity raises $14M of $42M round for home solar panels

Home solar-panel leasing company SolarCity has raised $14.8 million of a planned $42 million funding round, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SolarCity leases residential solar panels for a 15-year period, handling all the maintenance during …

Google invests $280M in residential solar projects

Search giant Google is investing $280 million in SolarCity, a company that leases out solar panels to home owners, bringing its total investment in the clean technology sector up to $680 million.

The investment creates a new fund for residential …