Yesterday Kohls a large department store announced that they were going green by converting more then 75 percent of its California department stores to solar power starting Next month. Kohl’s plans to covert 24 of its 80 stores immediately while waiting for permits and approval for the others. Kohl’s plan to generate more then 35 million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy by going solar. SunEdison will be doing the solar construction that should take about 12 weeks for each store. They predict the first 2 stores to be completed by August and all the solar power conversion to be done by end of 2008.

Add solar panels is not a new thing for large companies in fact Google Announced this past fall that they would be adding 1.6 megawatts of solar photovoltaic to their Mountain View Campus.

There are plenty of reasons to go with alternative energy in the business world, even the Harvard MBAs are going green.