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Abound Solar
Abound Solar was a manufacturer of cadmium telluride modules–a thin-film photovoltaic technology–based in the United States.
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Agora Energiewende
Agora Energiewende is a think tank supporting the ''Energiewende'' in Germany.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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Amorphous silicon
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) is the non-crystalline form of silicon used for solar cells and thin-film transistors in LCDs.
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Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as APAC, Asia-Pac, AsPac, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean.
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Bell Labs
Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.
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Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News is an international news agency headquartered in New York, United States and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
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BP
BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.
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Cadmium telluride photovoltaics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics describes a photovoltaic (PV) technology that is based on the use of cadmium telluride, a thin semiconductor layer designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity.
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Capacity factor
The net capacity factor is the unitless ratio of an actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the maximum possible electrical energy output over that period.
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Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) (or carbon capture and sequestration or carbon control and sequestration) is the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide from large point sources, such as fossil fuel power plants, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally an underground geological formation.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.
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Concentrated solar power
Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area.
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Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells
A copper indium gallium selenide solar cell (or CIGS cell, sometimes CI(G)S or CIS cell) is a thin-film solar cell used to convert sunlight into electric power.
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CORFO
Production Development Corporation (CORFO) (full name in Spanish: Corporación de Fomento de la Producción de Chile) is a Chilean governmental organization that was founded in 1939, by President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, to promote economic growth in Chile.
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Cost of electricity by source
In electrical power generation, the distinct ways of generating electricity incur significantly different costs.
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Crystalline silicon
Crystalline silicon (c-Si) is the crystalline forms of silicon, either multicrystalline silicon (multi-Si) consisting of small crystals, or monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si), a continuous crystal.
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Department of Energy and Climate Change
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) was a British government department created on 3 October 2008, by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to take over some of the functions related to energy of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and those relating to climate change of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
The Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550 megawatt (MWAC) photovoltaic power station approximately six miles north of Desert Center, California, in the Mojave Desert.
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Dispatchable generation
Dispatchable generation refers to sources of electricity that can be dispatched at the request of power grid operators or of the plant owner according to market needs.
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Distributed generation
Distributed generation, also distributed energy, on-site generation (OSG) or district/decentralized energy is electrical generation and storage performed by a variety of small, grid-connected devices referred to as distributed energy resources (DER).
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Doubling time
The doubling time is the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value.
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Duck curve
In commercial-scale electricity generation, the duck curve is a over the course of a day that shows the timing imbalance between peak demand and renewable energy production.
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DuPont
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Economies of scale
In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation (typically measured by amount of output produced), with cost per unit of output decreasing with increasing scale.
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Electric energy consumption
Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electric energy.
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Electrical grid
An electrical grid is an interconnected network for delivering electricity from producers to consumers.
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Electricity sector in Norway
The electricity sector in Norway relies predominantly on hydroelectricity.
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Electricity sector in Peru
The electricity sector in Peru has experienced impressive improvements in the past 15 years.
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Energy Conversion Devices
Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) was an American photovoltaics manufacturer of thin-film solar cells made of amorphous silicon used in flexible laminates and in building-integrated photovoltaics.
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Energy demand management
Energy demand management, also known as demand-side management (DSM) or demand-side response (DSR), is the modification of consumer demand for energy through various methods such as financial incentives and behavioral change through education.
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Energy development
Energy development is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources.
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Energy in Sweden
Energy in Sweden describes energy and electricity production, consumption and import in Sweden.
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European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.
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Experience curve effects
In management, models of the learning curve effect and the closely related experience curve effect express the relationship between equation and efficiency or between efficiency gains and investment in the effort.
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Exponential growth
Exponential growth is exhibited when the rate of change—the change per instant or unit of time—of the value of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value, resulting in its value at any time being an exponential function of time, i.e., a function in which the time value is the exponent.
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Feed-in tariff
A feed-in tariff (FIT, FiT, standard offer contract, Couture, T., Cory, K., Kreycik, C., Williams, E., (2010). National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy advanced renewable tariff, or renewable energy payments) is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies.
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First Solar
First Solar, Inc. is an American photovoltaic (PV) manufacturer of rigid thin film modules, or solar panels, and a provider of utility-scale PV power plants and supporting services that include finance, construction, maintenance and end-of-life panel recycling. First Solar uses cadmium telluride (CdTe) as a semiconductor to produce CdTe-panels, that are competing successfully with conventional crystalline silicon technology. In 2009, First Solar became the first solar panel manufacturing company to lower its manufacturing cost to $1 per watt and produced CdTe-panels with an efficiency of about 14 percent at a reported cost of 59 cents per watt in 2013. The company was founded in 1990 by inventor Harold McMaster as Solar Cells, Inc. and the Florida Corporation in 1993 with JD Polk. In 1999 it was purchased by True North Partners, LLC, who rebranded it as First Solar, Inc. The company went public in 2006, trading on the NASDAQ. Its current chief executive is Mark Widmar, who succeeded the previous CEO James Hughes July 1, 2016. First Solar is based in Tempe, Arizona. As of 2010, First Solar was considered the second-largest maker of PV modules worldwide and ranked sixth in Fast Company’s list of the world's 50 most innovative companies. In 2011, it ranked first on Forbes’s list of America’s 25 fastest-growing technology companies. It is listed on the Photovoltaik Global 30 Index since the beginning of this stock index in 2009. The company was also listed as No. 1 in Solar Power World magazine’s 2012 and 2013 rankings of solar contractors.
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Five-year plans of China
China's Five-Year Plans are a series of social and economic development initiatives.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (or Fraunhofer ISE) is an institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
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German Renewable Energy Sources Act
The Renewable Energy Sources Act or EEG (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) is a series of German laws that originally provided a feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme to encourage the generation of renewable electricity.
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Great Hanshin earthquake
The, or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known as Hanshin.
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Greentech Media
Greentech Media, a subsidiary of Wood Mackenzie, is a media company based in Massachusetts, United States, that generates daily report, market research study and news on electricity systems and green technology and green jobs.
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Grid parity
Grid parity (or socket parity) occurs when an alternative energy source can generate power at a levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) that is less than or equal to the price of purchasing power from the electricity grid.
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Hydropower
Hydropower or water power (from ύδωρ, "water") is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes.
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IHS Markit
IHS Markit Ltd is a global information provider based in London, United Kingdom.
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International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) (Agence internationale de l'énergie) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
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International Nuclear Event Scale
The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) was introduced in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in order to enable prompt communication of safety-significant information in case of nuclear accidents.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Les Hoffman
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List of CIGS companies
This list of notable companies manufacturing copper indium gallium selenide solar cells (CIGS) includes a number of companies, some of which have significantly reduced or completely closed down production.
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List of photovoltaic power stations
The following is a list of photovoltaic power stations that are larger than 150 megawatts (MW) in current net capacity.
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List of renewable energy topics by country
This is a list of renewable energy topics by country.
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Micromorph
The artificial word micromorph is a combination of the words MICROcrystalline and aMORPHous.
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Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM), is an Cabinet-level executive agency of the State Council of China.
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Monju Nuclear Power Plant
is a Japanese sodium-cooled fast reactor, located in Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant, Fukui Prefecture.
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Monocrystalline silicon
Monocrystalline silicon (also called "single-crystal silicon", "single-crystal Si", "mono c-Si", or mono-Si) is the base material for silicon chips used in virtually all electronic equipment today.
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Moore's law
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
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Multi-junction solar cell
Multi-junction (MJ) solar cells are solar cells with multiple p–n junctions made of different semiconductor materials.
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Nameplate capacity
Nameplate capacity, also known as the rated capacity, nominal capacity, installed capacity, or maximum effect, is the intended full-load sustained output of a facility such as a power plant, Energy Information Administration.
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Nanosolar
Nanosolar was a developer of solar power technology.
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National Renewable Energy Action Plan
A National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) is a detailed report submitted by countries outlining commitments and initiatives to develop renewable energy that all member states of the European Union were obliged to notify to the European Commission by 30June 2010.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colorado, specializes in renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development.
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Nominal power (photovoltaic)
The nominal power is the nameplate capacity of photovoltaic (PV) devices, such as solar cells, panels and systems, and is determined by measuring the electric current and voltage in a circuit, while varying the resistance under precisely defined conditions.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.
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OC Oerlikon
OC Oerlikon is a listed technology group headquartered in Pfäffikon (Schwyz), Switzerland.
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Photovoltaic power station
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, is a large-scale photovoltaic system (PV system) designed for the supply of merchant power into the electricity grid.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also PV system or solar power system, is a power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon or poly-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Renewable energy in Honduras
In Honduras, there is an important potential of untapped indigenous renewable energy resources.
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Renewable energy in the Philippines
In 2013, renewable energy provided 26.44 percent of the total energy needs of the Philippines and 19,903 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electrical energy out of a total demand of 75,266 gigawatt-hours.
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Renewable energy in the Republic of Ireland
Under the Renewable Energy Directive Ireland has set a target of producing 16% of all its energy needs from renewable energy sources by 2020.
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Rooftop photovoltaic power station
A rooftop photovoltaic power station, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop of a residential or commercial building or structure.
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Russell Ohl
Russell Shoemaker Ohl (January 30, 1898 – March 20, 1987) was an American engineer who is generally recognized for patenting the modern solar cell (US Patent 2402662, "Light sensitive device").
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Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element with symbol Si and atomic number 14.
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Solar cell
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon.
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Solar cell efficiency
Solar cell efficiency refers to the portion of energy in the form of sunlight that can be converted via photovoltaics into electricity.
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Solar energy
Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies such as solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture, molten salt power plants and artificial photosynthesis.
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Solar energy in Finland
Solar energy in Finland is used primarily for water heating and by the use of photovoltaics to generate electricity.
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Solar energy in the European Union
Solar energy in the European Union consists of photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal energy.
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Solar Frontier
Solar Frontier Kabushiki Kaisha is a Japanese photovoltaic company that develops and manufactures thin film solar cells using CIGS technology.
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Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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Solar panel
Photovoltaic solar panels absorb sunlight as a source of energy to generate electricity.
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Solar panels on spacecraft
Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System usually rely on the use of photovoltaic solar panels to derive electricity from sunlight.
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Solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), indirectly using concentrated solar power, or a combination.
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Solar power by country
Many nations have installed significant solar power capacity into their electrical grids to supplement or provide an alternative to conventional energy sources.
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Solar power in Africa
Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.
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Solar power in Algeria
Algeria has the highest technical and economical potential for solar power exploitation in the MENA region, with about 170 TWh per year.
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Solar power in Australia
Solar power in Australia is a growing industry.
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Solar power in Austria
As of the end of 2014, solar power in Austria amounted to 766 megawatt (MW) of cumulative photovoltaic (PV) capacity, of which more than three quarters were installed within the last four years.
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Solar power in Belgium
Solar power in Belgium reached an installed capacity of 3,425 MW of power generating 2,945 GWh of electricity in 2016 (provisional estimates).
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Solar power in Brazil
The total installed solar power in Brazil was estimated to be about 69 MWp at the end of 2015, generating less than 0.01% of the country's electricity demand.
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Solar power in Bulgaria
Solar power in Bulgaria has expanded by 100 megawatts (MW) in 2011.
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Solar power in California
Solar power in California has been growing rapidly because of high insolation, community support, declining solar costs, and a Renewable Portfolio Standard which requires that 33% of California's electricity come from renewable resources by 2020, and 50% by 2030.
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Solar power in Canada
Historically, the main applications of solar energy technologies in Canada have been non-electric active solar system applications for space heating, water heating and drying crops and lumber.
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Solar power in Chile
Northern Chile has the highest solar incidence in the world.
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Solar power in China
China is the world's largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
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Solar power in Cyprus
Solar power in Cyprus is more available than in almost all of the rest of the Europe.
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Solar power in Denmark
Solar power in Denmark contributes to a goal to use 100% renewable energy by 2050.
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Solar power in France
Solar power in France including overseas territories reached an installed capacity figure of 7,165 MW by year end 2016 generating 8,790 GWh of power.
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Solar power in Germany
Solar power in Germany consists almost exclusively of photovoltaics (PV) and accounted for an estimated 6.2 to 6.9 percent of the country's net-electricity generation in 2016.
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Solar power in Greece
Development of solar power in Greece started in 2006 and installations of photovoltaic systems skyrocketed from 2009 because of the appealing feed-in tariffs introduced and the corresponding regulations for domestic applications of rooftop solar PV.
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Solar power in Hungary
Solar power in Hungary is rapidly advancing, despite significant lagging behind most of the European states.
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Solar power in India
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry.
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Solar power in Israel
The use of solar energy began in Israel in the 1950s with the development by Levi Yissar of a solar water heater to address the energy shortages that plagued the new country.
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Solar power in Italy
Solar power in Italy increased rapidly in the last ten years, reaching an installed capacity that ranks fifth in the world.
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Solar power in Japan
Solar power in Japan has been expanding since the late 1990s.
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Solar power in Lithuania
Solar power in Lithuania is a form of renewable energy in Lithuania, and created 39 GWh of electricity in the first nine months of 2013.
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Solar power in Mexico
Solar power in Mexico has the potential to produce vast amounts of energy.
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Solar power in Pakistan
Pakistan has some of the highest values of insolation in the world, with eight to nine hours of sunshine per day, ideal climatic conditions for solar power generation.
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Solar power in Poland
Solar energy in Poland is a new sector of renewable energy and consists of solar thermal and solar electricity.
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Solar power in Portugal
At the end of 2013, Portugal had 277.9 MWp of photovoltaics and produced an estimated 437 GWh of electricity which supplied nearly 166 500 homes and saved approximately 107 074 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Solar power in Romania
Solar power in Romania had an installed capacity of 1,151 megawatt (MW) as of the end of 2013 – a more than 20 fold increase from 2012.
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Solar power in South Africa
Solar power in South Africa includes photovoltaics (PV) as well as concentrated solar power (CSP).
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Solar power in South Korea
South Korea plans to meet 20 percent of its total electricity consumption with renewables by 2030,the energy ministry said the plan called for adding 30.8 GW of solar power generating capacity and 16.5 GW of wind power capacity.
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Solar power in Spain
Spain is one of the top ten countries by solar photovoltaics installed capacity and the first country for concentrated solar power (CSP) in the world.
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Solar power in Switzerland
Solar power in Switzerland has been growing rapidly in recent years due to declining system costs and a feed-in tariff instituted by the Swiss government.
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Solar power in Taiwan
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Solar power in Thailand
Solar power in Thailand is targeted to reach 6,000 MW by 2036.
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Solar power in the Czech Republic
The Czech Republic had almost two gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic capacity at the end of 2010, but installed less than 10 megawatts (MW) in 2011 due to the feed-in tariff being reduced by 25%, after installing almost 1,500 MW the year before.
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Solar power in the Netherlands
Solar power in the Netherlands has an installed capacity of around 2,040 megawatt (MW) of photovoltaics as of the end of 2016.
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Solar power in the United Kingdom
Solar power represented a very small part of electricity production in United Kingdom until 2011.
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Solar power in the United States
Solar power in the United States includes utility-scale solar power plants as well as local distributed generation, mostly from rooftop photovoltaics.
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Solar power in Turkey
Turkey is located in an advantageous position in the Middle East and Southeast Europe for solar energy.
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Solar power in Ukraine
Solar power in Ukraine is obtained from photovoltaics or solar thermal energy.
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Solar water heating
Solar water heating (SWH) is the conversion of sunlight into heat for water heating using a solar thermal collector.
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Solar-powered calculator
Solar-powered calculators are hand-held electronic calculators powered by solar cells mounted on the device.
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Solar-powered watch
A solar-powered watch or light-powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar cell.
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Solyndra
Solyndra was a manufacturer of cylindrical panels of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film solar cells based in Fremont, California.
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Stand-alone power system
A stand-alone power system (SAPS or SPS), also known as remote area power supply (RAPS), is an off-the-grid electricity system for locations that are not fitted with an electricity distribution system.
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Suntech Power
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd.
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Swanson's law
Swanson's law is the observation that the price of solar photovoltaic modules tends to drop 20 percent for every doubling of cumulative shipped volume.
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TEL Solar
TEL Solar, formerly Oerlikon Solar, is a manufacturer of production equipment for the manufacturing of thin-film silicon cells, headquartered in Trübbach, Switzerland, near the border to Liechtenstein.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.
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Thin-film solar cell
A thin-film solar cell is a second generation solar cell that is made by depositing one or more thin layers, or thin film (TF) of photovoltaic material on a substrate, such as glass, plastic or metal.
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Timeline of solar cells
The timeline of solar cells began in the 19th century when it is observed that the sunlight striking certain materials generates detectable electric current.
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Tokyo Electron
, or TEL, is a Japanese electronics and semiconductor company headquartered in Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
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Topaz Solar Farm
Topaz Solar Farm is a 550 MWp photovoltaic power station in San Luis Obispo County, California.
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TreeHugger
TreeHugger is a sustainability website that was rated the top sustainability blog of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings, and was included in Time Magazine's 2009 blog index as one of the top twenty-five blogs.
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Unit prefix
A unit prefix is a specifier or mnemonic that is prepended to units of measurement to indicate multiples or fractions of the units.
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University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales (UNSW; branded as UNSW Sydney) is an Australian public research university located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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Weighted average cost of capital
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of air flow through wind turbines to mechanically power generators for electricity.
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Wind power by country
As of the end of 2016, the worldwide total cumulative installed electricity generation capacity from wind power amounted to 486,790 MW, an increase of 12.5% compared to the previous year.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics
