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Warren Buffet’s Hungry For Solar – Coal, Not So Much | Image : Public Domain<\/p><\/div>\n

Multi-billionaire Warren Buffett is looking to splash more cash on wind energy and solar power projects – billions of dollars he says. As for coal, he’s less than bullish.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting on the weekend, the business magnate’s appetite for renewables appears to be growing reports CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If someone walks in with a solar project tomorrow and it takes a billion dollars or three billion dollars, we’re ready to do it,” said Mr. Buffett. “The more there is the better.”<\/p>\n

With regard to coal’s outlook:<\/p>\n

“If you’re tied to coal, then you’ve got problems,” he said.<\/p>\n

This statement was made even though Mr. Buffett has some skin in the coal game, with Berkshire’s Burlington Northern Railroad getting a significant chunk of revenue (now decreasing) from carrying coal.<\/p>\n

Berkshire Hathaway Inc., led by Mr. Buffett, is an American multinational conglomerate with its fingers in a lot of pies and has a reputation for being insanely profitable. It’s rather plain website<\/a> certainly doesn’t accurately reflect the leviathan’s nature.<\/p>\n

One of its (many) business interests is Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which sources 39% of its owned and contracted generating capacity from renewable energy and non-carbon sources.<\/p>\n

It owns approximately 6,200 megawatts of wind generation capacity, two hydro facilities and more than a dozen facilities across the USA that harness or produce geothermal power.<\/p>\n

With regard to solar power, the company says it has 1,300 megawatts of solar capacity in operation, which account for 4% of the U.S. solar market. Among the facilities in its portfolio is the Topaz Solar Farm<\/a>;\u00a0 a 550-megawatts clean power station in San Luis Obispo County, California that features nine millions solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2013, another Berkshire Hathaway company, MidAmerican Energy Holding Co., agreed to pay around $US2.5 billion for SunPower\u2019s Antelope Valley Solar Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a 2015 communication to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Mr. Buffett said<\/a> the company had so far invested nearly $16 billion in renewables and at that time, owned 7% of wind power generation and 6% of solar electricity generation in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Mr. Buffett’s ongoing optimism for renewables investment in the USA, even in the era of Trump, is certainly encouraging – and may quiet some of the cynicism leveled against him during the Obama years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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