{"id":30809,"date":"2015-08-26T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=30809"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:44:08","slug":"germanys-e-on-targets-united-states-in-solar-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/germanys-e-on-targets-united-states-in-solar-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s E.ON targets United States in solar push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s biggest utility E.ON aims to aggressively expand its solar business and is banking on the United States where President Obama has pledged to promote renewables in a bid to fight climate change. <\/p>\n<p>E.ON, which has spent about 10 billion euros ($11.50 billion) on renewable since 2007, has a pipeline of around one gigawatt (GW) of solar in the United States, Michael Lewis, chief operating officer of E.ON&#8217;s renewable unit, said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cost of photovoltaic has come down much quicker than anyone expected and therefore the growth rate has taken off,&#8221; he told Reuters in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, E.ON owns more than 4.5 GW of renewable capacity, with more than 95 percent of that being wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s biggest utility E.ON aims to aggressively expand its solar business and is banking on the United States where President Obama has pledged to promote renewables in a bid to fight climate change. E.ON, which has spent about 10 billion euros ($11.50 billion) on renewable since 2007, has a pipeline of around one gigawatt (GW) of solar in the United States, Michael Lewis, chief operating officer of E.ON&#8217;s renewable unit, said. &#8220;The cost of photovoltaic has come down much quicker than anyone expected and therefore the growth rate has taken off,&#8221; he told Reuters in an interview. Overall, E.ON owns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}