Green Options » wine-makers http://greenoptions.com/tag/wine-makers Posts tagged 'wine-makers' Fri, 30 May 2008 16:47:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Photovoltaics, Floatovoltaics Bring Sun Power to California Vineyards http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/30/photovoltaics-floatovoltaics-bring-sun-power-to-california-vineyards/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/30/photovoltaics-floatovoltaics-bring-sun-power-to-california-vineyards/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 16:47:55 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/05/30/photovoltaics-floatovoltaics-bring-sun-power-to-california-vineyards/ Fresh-picked grapes. (Image credit: Bob Nichols, USDA, at Wikimedia Commons, public domain (government-created document).)Here’s another reason (as if one needs a reason!) to enjoy California wines: Napa Valley wineries are adopting solar power faster than any other business sector in the state.

Among the wine-makers using solar power: Far Niente, Frog’s Leap, Fetzer, Domaine Carneros, Ridge and St. Francis, among others. According to one solar company executive, the region’s wineries are going solar 40-plus times faster than any other type of business in California.

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