 Hinchey to announce new solar energy partner
(Middletown Times Herald-Record: Sat, 23 Feb) TOWN OF ULSTER — Rep. Maurice Hinchey will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. Monday to announce the first major manufacturing partnership for The Solar Energy Consortium.
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 Arizona to become 'Persian Gulf' of solar energy
(CNN.com: Fri, 22 Feb) PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- A Spanish company is planning to take 3 square miles of desert southwest of Phoenix and turn them into one of the largest solar power plants in the world.
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 Solar energy group honors Sonoma
(Sonoma Index-Tribune: Fri, 22 Feb) The City of Sonoma has been recognized by the NorCal Solar Energy Association for the number of solar photovoltaic technology installed on homes, businesses and municipal buildings as of December 2006.
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 Energy storage nears its day in the sun
(Reuters via Yahoo! News: Fri, 22 Feb) Energy storage is an unglamorous pillar of an expected revolution to clean up the world's energy supply but will soon vie for investors attention with more alluring sources of energy like solar panels, manufacturers say.
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 Abengoa plans world's largest solar plant in US
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Fri, 22 Feb) Abengoa Solar plans to build the world's largest solar plant in Arizona in cooperation with an energy utility in the southwestern state, the companies said Thursday.
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 Aleo Solar, Sunvim Join to Build Chinese Module Plant
(Update1: Fri, 22 Feb) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Aleo Solar AG, a German maker of solar-energy products, will form a joint venture with Sunvim Group Co. Ltd. to build a production plant for solar modules in the Chinese province of Shandong.
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 Special Coating Greatly Improves Solar Cell Performance
(PhysOrg: Fri, 22 Feb) The energy from sunlight falling on only 9 percent of California`s Mojave Desert could power all of the United States` electricity needs if the energy could be efficiently harvested, according to some estimates. Unfortunately, current-generation solar cell technologies are too expensive and inefficient for wide-scale commercial applications.
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New solar energy research institute to conduct world—class R&D
