Facebook Cleantech Group last night awarded a $ 25,000 prize to the one as young as one year old all the chips platform. Sunfunder, established last year for all off-grid solar project financing in developing countries to raise the platform. Its award-winning Facebook application will display progress indicators, such as the amount of investment, the number of projects, energy savings, as well as helping the number.

Users will also be able to see the impact of their interpersonal networks, and ask others to invest. Sun Funder users with other investments, solar partners, enterprises and even project level end users that they have contact. Sheeraz Haji, CEO of Cleantech Group, said: "Solar energy is an inherently social.

When people install solar grid tie inverter in their home, they want to tell their friends and neighbors. Sun Funder understand this, and has developed a thoughtful strategy using the Facebook platform for the emerging market of solar project financing. Sun Funder congregation chip platform model integrates Facebook's social graph, may subvert the rules of the game. '

Facebook's energy efficiency and sustainability manager Bill? Will (Bill Weihl) announced the winner in the end of the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco. Sun Funder defeated watt Time, its application motivates users to save money by avoiding the peak hours of electricity, which is equivalent to the people gave up we all want, the concept of Saatchi & Saatchi S Adam Werbach, CEO (Adam Werbach) was founded.

Founder Ryan Levinson (Ryan Levinson), said: "with the phone beyond similar way to the world's fixed telephone system, solar controllerenergy can go beyond the 2.5 billion population of the lack of adequate electricity grid with Facebook the partnership is an excellent opportunity for the billions of people on Facebook to help the solar revolution financing, and for the people that need it the most to bring clean, cheap energy. "

Levinson served as vice president of Wells Fargo Bank (Wells Fargo) Environment Facility, where he helped to establish and develop the bank's investment in solar projects business, and to guide the investment of over $ 500,000,000 more than one hundred and fifty solar projects.