Rive could also buy a new water heater to improve energy efficiency in his home.
Musk owns a fourth of the company, founded and run by his cousin Lyndon Rive.
Rive says SolarCity has also installed about 750 home charging stations for electric car drivers.
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So, for now, Rive is focusing all his efforts on reducing the air leakage in his home.
Peter Rive says SolarCity is putting the solar-battery backup system in 100 residential and commercial pilot projects.
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Forget the sneers from Georgetown: the rive droite will provide many of the administration's people and most of its ideas.
SolarCity also performs energy efficiency audits for customers and has done 2, 000 energy retrofit installations to date, according to Rive.
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Musk is the cousin of SolarCity founders Lyndon Rive and Peter Rive.
Rive says SolarCity and Building Solutions, which have worked together on projects for about 18 months, often end up doing overlapping work.
Rive says Wal-Mart from day one will either be saving money with the new solar panels, or paying the same amount it had previously for electricity.
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Summing up Rive Gauche grungy in style, it was hardly the Golden Globes yet made up for the lack of glamour by being unpredictable and thoroughly entertaining.
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Wal-Mart is pursuing thin film for the promise that eventually, when production is scaled up, thin film panels will be cheaper to make than traditional ones, explains Rive.
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When a real-life Frenchwoman moves into the neighborhood, Ms. Beaulieu sneaks over to inhale a bit of Paris through forbidden spritzes of Yves Saint Laurent's perfume Rive Gauche.
Rive expects the panels to be installed within a year.
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As electricity costs rise in the future and they have been climbing at between 3% and 5% a year in most states Wal-Mart will lock in more savings, says Rive.
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For the son of a shopkeeper executed by the Yugoslav Communists, getting to the rive gauche was a welcome escape from the gloom of the Balkans, and it guaranteed him a prestigious job as a professor of literature back home.
Turin had great fun penning his reviews, giving raves to fragrances he liked ("Thanks to Rive Gauche, mortals can at last know the scent of the goddess Diana's bath soap") and slamming those he hated ("57 for Her is a sad little thing, an incongruous dried-prunes note with a metallic edge that manages the rare feat of being at once cloying and harsh").
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