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	A Rare Peek at Green Energy Economics

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9-8-2009 3:34 PM

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But the details of those deals and the emerging economics of green energy often remain shrouded in secrecy, subject to confidentiality agreements.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/a-rare-peek-at-green-energy-economics/"><P>That black box cracked open a bit on Thursday, when the <A href="http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/puc/">California Public Utilities Commission</A> gave the green light to two 25-year power purchase agreements between Pacific Gas & Electric and <A href="http://www.brightsourceenergy.com/">BrightSource Energy</A>, a solar power plant builder based in Oakland, Calif. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/a-rare-peek-at-green-energy-economics/"><P>When approving contracts for 310 megawatts of solar electricity, the utilities commission also signed off on an apparently first-of-its-kind technology royalty agreement between BrightSource and PG&E.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/a-rare-peek-at-green-energy-economics/"><P>“We’re contractually not permitted to discuss the negotiated terms of the royalty agreement,” Ms. Zerwer wrote in an e-mail message.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6E8A4CB6-6B92-4BAE-88B3-8092D331A4DB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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