Kohl's (Dept. Stores) to go solar in California

[jpak]

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=596541

Kohl's Corp. will convert most of its California department stores to solar power starting next month, the company will announce today.

Kohl's agreement to buy solar power from SunEdison is the largest purchase and deployment of solar power by a single entity in U.S. history, according to SunEdison LLC, North America's largest solar energy service provider.

The Menomonee Falls-based department store chain will generate 35 million kilowatt-hours of domestically produced, clean renewable energy in the first year. In terms of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, that is the equivalent of taking 2,500 cars off the road, according to Ken Bonning, Kohl's executive vice president of logistics.

Kohl's is investigating options for solar installations in six other states, including Wisconsin. The initiative is the result of a study of its energy use that the retailer started two years ago.

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[tandot]

1. I love to shop there...now even more. n/t

[emmadoggy]

2. That is awesome. Good on ya, Kohl's!

:bounce:

[K8-EEE]

3. Rec #4 -- I love to give plugs to the good guys! YAY KOHLS!

There's one by me that I've never been to, will def make it in there, I like to feel good about where I shop.

[AwakeAtLast]

4. I like Kohl's a lot.

Now I really like them. Thanks for posting! :hi:

[NNadir]

5. The number of cars driving to Kohl's, of course, is in the millions.

This will not stop people from cheering that Kohl's allegedly is "saving" the emissions of "thousands of cars." What's more, like the famous Walmart game of the same type, it's unlikely that the solar cells will ever be installed, although, as was the case with Walmart, there will be almost no announcement of the plan's failure comparable to the plan's initiation.

You can get a lot more cars to drive to your store by pretending to give a shit about energy which is the point of the Kohl's announcement.

The world capacity to build solar power does not even provide as much energy as a single natural gas plant in a year. Thus, as has been the case for 50 years, the solar contribution will continue to be trivial. More energy will be consumed on web servers dedicated to celebrating solar energy than will be produced by solar energy.

California has never, and probably never will, produce enough solar energy to shut the natural gas plant in El Segundo.

This is amazing really when you think about it, because the gas plant at El Segundo, heaves millions of tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste into the air, has leaky pipes, screwed up heat exchangers with missing bolts etc.

Of course, nobody cares how many people are killed or injured by this natural gas plant, which is why California continues to build natural gas plants. Nobody cares.

Not to worry though, the people of California have re-elected an asshole who drives around in a hydrogen Hummer as their Governor because he promised them a brazillion solar roofs, in spite of the fact that there isn't enough polysilicon produced on the planet to make one hundred thousand solar roofs in the entire world, never mind California.

Governor Hydrogen Hummer is now an "environmentalist." I read it in a magazine.

Never under estimate the power of of a scam though. Lots of people will drive Hummers powered by something other than hydrogen to Kohl's because they've heard that Kohl's, like the State of California, is run by an "environmentalist."

Meanwhile the carbon emissions from California will continue to climb, unrestricted by promises who fulfillment fall on future generations.

Dumberer and dumberer...

[Systematic Chaos]

8. Reality check, aisle 12!

:rofl:

[jpak]

9. Reality check - global installed PV capacity is currently 6 GW and growing at ~2 GW per year

far more generating capacity than a "single gas-fired power plant".

*reality*

[Systematic Chaos]

10. And as of yet I have not seen one SHRED of any of this lovely capacity

in a city (Las Vegas, for the love of Christ!!) that has sunshine about 90% of daylight hours.

Here's some more REALITY for you: Every single hotel/casino, with its acres upon acres of land area -- not to mention roof space -- has nice filthy diesel generators for backup power. When I worked at my last dealing job (so my CEO could get a new Escalade every year as a company car, by the way), I used to have to walk past one of those pieces of shit, as it fired up from alongside the building one morning per week, on my way from the employee parking area. Why, oh why, aren't the gaming companies chipping in with their own solar power? After all, they make money hand over fist and they're in a perfect spot for it.

Nah, this is just more rah-rah, empty, insubstantial, image-building BS from a corporation that is employing this "great environmental initiative" to enhance their bottom line.

I don't even see any solar-powered calculators anymore, like I always had in high school in the 80's. That sure bodes well for our solar future when a simple low-power math tool with a solar cell didn't catch on.

[jpak]

11. Nevada will soon have a 64 MW of solar-thermal electric plant and a 18 MW PV plant at Nellis AFB

If you go to California - or better still, Germany or Spain - and look around, you will see and believe.

[nicknameless]

6. Good!

[earth mom]

7. Can't stand Kohls-but if they do that if my state, I might start shopping there. nt