Unless you’re using Enron math, BT’s new plan to connect 10 million homes–roughly 40 percent of the United Kingdom–with fiber networks at a cost of £1.5 billion doesn’t quite add up. At today’s conversion rate, that’s about $3 billion–or $300 to wire up each of these proposed 10 million homes.

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AT&T, in conjunction with some 10 to 15 incumbent telecom carriers–British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and NTT among them–is plotting to launch a Skype competitor, according to a research report issued by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman. This is Wahlman’s theory for now, but his track record is full of theories that have eventually been proven right.

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British Telecom made a major bet on renewable energy last October, saying it planned to invest close to half a billion dollars in wind farms to meet 25% of the company’s U.K. power needs by 2016. Now BT’s clean energy goals are crossing the pond, to its U.S. headquarters. The company said today at a press conference in El Segundo, Calif., where company executives, Prince Andrew Duke of York and the mayor of El Segundo spoke, that it’s building a 500-kilowatt solar photovoltaic system for its North American HQ.

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