Walgreens

While electric vehicles (EVs) provide an alternative to traditional petroleum-fueled vehicles, finding a convenient place to charge them can be an issue. But America’s largest drugstore chain may help ease that concern for potential EV owners.

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and SunEdison LLC, a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR), said today Wells Fargo subsidiaries will invest up to $120 million to fund U.S. solar photovoltaic distributed generation power projects developed by SunEdison over the next year. The program builds on a SunEdison solar investment fund established in 2007 in which Wells Fargo invested more than $200 million in approximately 150 solar projects developed by SunEdison in eight states.

Walgreens (NYSE:WAG), the largest drugstore chain in the United States, has opened its first store to employ a geothermal energy system in Oak Park, Illinois.