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Abengoa
Abengoa S.A. is a Spanish multinational corporation, which includes companies in the domains of energy, telecommunications, transportation, and the environment.
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Abengoa Solar
Abengoa Solar (formerly Solúcar Energía) is a subsidiary of Abengoa.
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Agua Caliente Solar Project
The Agua Caliente Solar Project is a 290 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station, built in Yuma County, Arizona using thin-film technology based CdTe PV panels manufactured by First Solar.
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Alternative minimum tax
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is a supplemental income tax imposed by the United States federal government required in addition to baseline income tax for certain individuals, corporations, estates, and trusts that have exemptions or special circumstances allowing for lower payments of standard income tax.
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American Solar Energy Society
The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is an association of solar professionals and advocates in the United States.
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Amory Lovins
Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Antelope Valley Solar Ranch
The Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 (AVSR1) is a 266-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power plant near Lancaster within Antelope Valley, in the western Mojave Desert, Southern California.
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Appropriation (law)
In law and government, appropriation (from Latin appropriare, "to make one's own", later "to set aside") is the act of setting apart something for its application to a particular usage, to the exclusion of all other uses.
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Arizona
Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.
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Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.
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Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.
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Blythe Mesa Solar Power Project
The Blythe Mesa Solar Power Project is a planned 485 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station in Riverside County, California.
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Board of supervisors
A board of supervisors is a governing body that oversees the operation of county government in the American states of Arizona, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as 16 counties in New York.
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Boulder City, Nevada
Boulder City is a city in Clark County, Nevada.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.
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Calico Solar Energy Project
The Calico Solar Energy Project, now shelved, was a proposed photovoltaic power station to be located in San Bernardino County, California on of Bureau of Land Management land.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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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 dioxide
Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.
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Clean Edge
Clean Edge, Inc., founded in 2000, is an American research and advisory firm devoted to the clean-tech sector.
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Clean Tech Nation
Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy is a 2012 book written by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder.
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Clint Wilder
Clint Wilder is a business journalist who has covered the high-tech and clean-tech industries since 1985.
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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
Copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) is a I-III-VI2 semiconductor material composed of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium.
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Copper Mountain Solar Facility
The Copper Mountain Solar Facility is a 458 MWp solar photovoltaic power plant in Boulder City, Nevada.
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Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 megawatt (MW) net solar thermal power project with 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage, located near Tonopah, about northwest of Las Vegas.
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Deploying Renewables 2011
Deploying Renewables 2011: Best and Future Policy Practice is a 2011 book by the International Energy Agency.
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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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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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Electrical junction
An electrical junction may be either a thermoelectricity junction, a metal–semiconductor junction or a p–n junction (p-type semiconductor–n-type semiconductor junction).
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Electricity sector of the United States
The electricity sector of the United States includes a large array of stakeholders that provide services through electricity generation, transmission, distribution and marketing for industrial, commercial, public and residential customers.
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Energy in the United States
The United States was the second-largest energy consumer in 2010 (after China) considering total use.
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Energy Information Administration
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
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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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Fiscal year
A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is the period used by governments for accounting and budget purposes, which vary between countries.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Florida Power & Light
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), the principal subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc.
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Frank Shuman
Frank Shuman (January 23, 1862 – April 28, 1918) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would produce steam.
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Gigafactory 2
The Tesla Gigafactory 2 is a photovoltaic (PV) cell factory, leased by Tesla subsidiary SolarCity in Buffalo, New York.
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Gila Bend, Arizona
Gila Bend (O'odham: Hila Wi:n), founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
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Green America
Green America (originally known as Co-op America until January 1, 2009) is a nonprofit membership organization based in the United States that promotes ethical consumerism.
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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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Groove (engineering)
In manufacturing or mechanical engineering a groove is a long and narrow indentation built into a material, generally for the purpose of allowing another material or part to move within the groove and be guided by it.
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Growth of photovoltaics
Worldwide growth of photovoltaics has been an exponential curve between 1992–2017.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.
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Heliostat
A heliostat (from helios, the Greek word for sun, and stat, as in stationary) is a device that includes a mirror, usually a plane mirror, which turns so as to keep reflecting sunlight toward a predetermined target, compensating for the sun's apparent motions in the sky.
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HelioVolt
HelioVolt Corporation was a privately held U.S. solar energy company based in Austin, Texas, that suspended operations in 2014.
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Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the State of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County.
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Income tax in the United States
Income taxes in the United States are imposed by the federal, most state, and many local governments.
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Indiantown, Florida
Indiantown is a village in Martin County, Florida, United States.
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Ingot
An ingot is a piece of relatively pure material, usually metal, that is cast into a shape suitable for further processing.
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Inkjet printing
Inkjet printing is a type of computer printing that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper, plastic, or other substrates.
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Innovative financing
Innovative financing refers to a range of non-traditional mechanisms to raise additional funds for development aid through "innovative" projects such as micro-contributions, taxes, public-private partnerships and market-based financial transactions.
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Inspector general
An inspector general is an investigative official in a civil or military organization.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific and intergovernmental body under the auspices of the United Nations, set up at the request of member governments, dedicated to the task of providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts.
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Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.
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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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Ivanpah Solar Power Facility
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert.
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Jeff Flake
Jeffry Lane Flake (born December 31, 1962) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Arizona, elected in 2012.
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Jerry Brown
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician, author and lawyer serving as the 39th and current Governor of California since 2011, previously holding the position from 1975 to 1983, making him the state's longest-serving Governor.
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Karl Wolfgang Boer
Karl Wolfgang Böer (March 23, 1926 – April 18, 2018) was a solar energy pioneer.
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Ken Salazar
Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 50th United States Secretary of the Interior in the administration of President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.
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Kevin Brady
Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1997.
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Kilowatt hour
The kilowatt hour (symbol kWh, kW⋅h or kW h) is a unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules.
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Konarka Technologies
Konarka Technologies, Inc. was a solar energy company based in Lowell, Massachusetts, founded in 2001 as a spin-off from University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Lancaster, California
Lancaster is a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska and member of the Republican Party.
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List of photovoltaics companies
This is a list of notable photovoltaics (PV) companies.
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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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List of rooftop photovoltaic installations
This page lists large-scale rooftop photovoltaic installation projects.
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List of solar thermal power stations
This is a list of the largest facilities generating electricity through the use of solar thermal power, specifically concentrated solar power.
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Longyangxia Dam
The Longyangxia Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam at the entrance of the Longyangxia canyon on the Yellow River in Gonghe County, Qinghai Province, China.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Market transformation
Market transformation describes both a policy objective and a program strategyYork, D., Review 186-1.
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Martin County, Florida
Martin County is a county located in the Treasure Coast region in the state of Florida, in the United States.
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Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center
Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center is the solar parabolic-trough component of an integrated solar combined cycle 1150 MW plant, in western Martin County, Florida, just north of Indiantown, built by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL).
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Mesquite Solar project
The Mesquite Solar project is a photovoltaic power plant being built in Arlington, Maricopa County, Arizona, owned by Sempra Generation.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America.
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Mojave Solar Project
The Mojave Solar Project (MSP) is a concentrated solar power (CSP) facility in the Mojave Desert in California, about northwest of Barstow.
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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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Mount Signal Solar
Mount Signal Solar is a 266-megawatt (MWp) photovoltaic power station west of Calexico, California in the southern Imperial Valley, near the Mexican border.
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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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Net metering
Net metering (or net energy metering, NEM) allows consumers who generate some or all of their own electricity to use that electricity anytime, instead of when it is generated.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission
New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (NHPUC) is a New Hampshire state government regulatory agency that regulates and approves some of the charges of electric, telecommunications, natural gas, water and sewer utilities in the state.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.
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NextEra Energy
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NEE) is a Fortune 200 energy company with about 45,900 megawatts of generating capacity, revenues of over $17 billion, and about 14,000 employees throughout the United States and Canada.
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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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NRG Energy
NRG Energy, Inc. is a large American energy company, dual-headquartered in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, and Houston, Texas.
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Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is an office within the United States Department of Energy.
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Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States Senator for Utah who has been the President pro tempore of the United States Senate since 2015.
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PACE financing
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is a means of financing energy efficiency upgrades or renewable energy installations for residential, commercial and industrial property owners.
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Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Se-Khi)Wilkerson, Lyn (2009).
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Perrysburg, Ohio
Perrysburg is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States, along the south side of the Maumee River.
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Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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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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Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.
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Power purchase agreement
A power purchase agreement (PPA), or electricity power agreement, is a contract between two parties, one which generates electricity (the seller) and one which is looking to purchase electricity (the buyer).
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Property tax in the United States
Most local governments in the United States impose a property tax, also known as a millage rate, as a principal source of revenue.
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Public Law 110-343
Public Law 110-343 is a US Act of Congress signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush, which was designed to mitigate the growing financial crisis of the late-2000s by giving relief to so-called "Troubled Assets.", White House Press Release, October 3, 2008.
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Public Service Enterprise Group
The Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is a publicly traded diversified energy company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and was established in 1985.
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Public utility
A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure).
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Quantum dot solar cell
A quantum dot solar cell (QDSC) is a solar cell design that uses quantum dots as the absorbing photovoltaic material.
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Reinventing Fire
Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era is a 2011 book, by Amory B. Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute, that explores converting the United States to almost total reliance on renewable energy sources, such as solar energy and wind power.
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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 the United States
Renewable energy accounted for 12.2 % of total primary energy consumption and 14.94 % of the domestically produced electricity in the United States in 2016.
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Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a special report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) on May 9, 2011.
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Renewable portfolio standard
A renewable portfolio standard (RPS) is a regulation that requires the increased production of energy from renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal.
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Rice Solar Energy Project
The Rice Solar Energy Project was a 150 MW concentrating solar power facility project proposed for Rice Valley in the southern Mojave Desert, within Riverside County in southern California.
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Riverside County, California
Riverside County, California, is one of fifty-eight counties in the U.S. state of California.
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Ron Pernick
Ron Pernick is an American author and the co-founder and managing director of Clean Edge, a Portland, Oregon research and advisory firm that monitors clean technology markets.
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Sales tax
A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.
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San Diego Unified School District
San Diego Unified School District (also known as San Diego City Schools) is the school district and a land investment corporation based in San Diego, California, United States.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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San Luis Obispo County, California
San Luis Obispo County, officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county located in California.
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Sanyo
is a Japanese major electronics company and formerly a member of the Fortune Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan.
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Securitization
Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
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Sempra Energy
Sempra Energy is an American natural gas utilities holding company based in San Diego, California.
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Skyline Solar
Skyline Solar was a Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) company based in Mountain View, California.
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Smart grid
A smart grid is an electrical grid which includes a variety of operational and energy measures including smart meters, smart appliances, renewable energy resources, and energy efficient resources.
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Solana Generating Station
The Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about southwest of Phoenix, completed in 2013.
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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 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 Generating Systems
Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) in California, with the combined capacity from three separate locations at 354 megawatts (MW, 474,700 hp), is now the world's second largest solar thermal energy generating facility, after the commissioning of the even larger Ivanpah facility in 2014.
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Solar Energy Industries Association
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is a national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States.
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Solar Energy Perspectives
Solar Energy Perspectives is a 2011 book by the International Energy Agency.
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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 in Alabama
Solar power in Alabama on rooftops can provide 29.8% of all electricity used in Alabama, with 20,400 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Alaska
Solar power in Alaska has been primarily used in remote locations, such as the Nenana Teen Center near Fairbanks, where long summer days provide most of the electricity generated.
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Solar power in Arizona
Solar power in Arizona has the potential to, according to then-Governor Janet Napolitano, make Arizona "the Persian Gulf of solar energy".
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Solar power in Arkansas
Solar power in Arkansas on rooftops can provide 33.3% of all electricity used in Arkansas from 12,200 MW of solar panels.
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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 China
China is the world's largest market for both photovoltaics and solar thermal energy.
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Solar power in Colorado
Solar power in Colorado has grown rapidly, partly because of one of the most favorable net metering laws in the country, with no limit on the number of users.
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Solar power in Connecticut
Solar power in Connecticut makes Connecticut the second state in the USA to reach grid parity, after Hawaii, due to the high average cost of electricity.
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Solar power in Delaware
Solar power in Delaware is small industry.
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Solar power in Florida
Solar power in Florida has been increasing, as the cost of solar power systems using photovoltaics (PV) has decreased in recent years.
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Solar power in Georgia (U.S. state)
Solar power in Georgia on rooftops can provide 31% of all electricity used in Georgia.
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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 Hawaii
The energy sector in Hawaii has rapidly adopted solar power due to the high costs of electricity, and good solar resources, and has one of the highest per capita rates of solar power in the United States.
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Solar power in Idaho
Solar power in Idaho on rooftops can provide 26.4% of all electricity used in Idaho from 4,700 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Illinois
Solar power in Illinois has been increasing, as the cost of photovoltaics has decreased.
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Solar power in Indiana
Solar power in Indiana has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, particularly a 30% federal tax credit for any size project.
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Solar power in Iowa
Solar power in Iowa is in limited, with only 27 MW installed by 2015, ranking the state 29th among U.S. states.
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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 Kansas
Solar power in Kansas has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives.
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Solar power in Kentucky
Solar power in Kentucky has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, particularly a 30% federal tax credit, available through 2016, for any size project.
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Solar power in Louisiana
Solar power in Louisiana is ranked 34th for installed solar PV capacity as of 2017 by the.
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Solar power in Maine
Solar power in Maine on rooftops can provide electricity used in Maine with 6,300 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Maryland
Solar power in Maryland is supported by the state's legislation regarding the Renewable Portfolio Standard and Solar Renewable Energy Credit (SREC) program.
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Solar power in Massachusetts
Solar power in Massachusetts has been increasing rapidly, due to a 30% tax grant for installations that began before December 31, 2011, and the sale of SRECs for $0.30/kWh, which allows payback for the system within 5 or 6 years, and generates income for the life of the system.
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Solar power in Michigan
Solar power in Michigan has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, particularly a 30% federal tax credit, available for any size project.
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Solar power in Minnesota
Solar power in Minnesota is expanding significantly as a result of favorable policies and as the cost of photovoltaics continues to decrease.
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Solar power in Mississippi
Solar power in Mississippi is an underutilized generation method; however, large changes are expected by 2016.
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Solar power in Missouri
Solar power in Missouri is capable of generating 42.7% of the electricity used in Missouri from rooftop solar panels totaling 28,300 MW.
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Solar power in Montana
Solar power in Montana on rooftops can provide 28% of all electricity used in Montana from 3,200 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Nebraska
Solar power in Nebraska is used for only a very small percentage of the state's electricity, although it is rapidly becoming competitive with grid electricity, due to the decrease in cost and the eight-year extension to the 30% tax credit, which can be used to install any size system.
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Solar power in Nevada
Solar power in Nevada has been growing, due to a Renewable Portfolio Standard which requires 20% renewable energy by 2015, and 5% from solar power.
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Solar power in New Hampshire
Solar power in New Hampshire provides a small percentage of the state's electricity.
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Solar power in New Jersey
Solar power in New Jersey has been aided by a Renewable Portfolio Standard which requires that 22.5% of New Jersey's electricity come from renewable resources by 2021, and by one of the most favorable net metering standards in the country, along with Arizona, allowing unlimited customers of any size array to use net metering, although generation may not exceed annual demand.
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Solar power in New Mexico
Solar power in New Mexico in 2016 generated 2.8% of the state's total electricity consumption, despite a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) projection suggesting a potential contribution three orders of magnitude larger.
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Solar power in New York
Solar power in New York includes the largest solar farm on the east coast, the 37 MW Long Island Solar Farm, as well as the 17 MW enXco Eastern Long Island Solar Project, which consists of seven projects, three at LIRR station carports.
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Solar power in North Carolina
Solar power in North Carolina has been increasing rapidly, from less than 1 MW (megawatts) in 2007 to about 1437 MW in 2015, and has the second-largest installed capacity of the U.S. states.
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Solar power in North Dakota
Solar power in North Dakota is a little-used resource.
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Solar power in Ohio
Solar power in Ohio has been increasing, as the cost of photovoltaics has decreased.
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Solar power in Oklahoma
Solar power in Oklahoma can provide 44.1% of all electricity used in Oklahoma from 19,300 MW of rooftop solar panels.
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Solar power in Oregon
Solar power in Oregon has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives enacted by the state government.
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Solar power in Pennsylvania
Solar power in Pennsylvania currently provides less than 1% of the state’s electricity, but there are many policies in place to regulate and incentivize its use.
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Solar power in Rhode Island
Solar power in Rhode Island has become economical due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, particularly a 30% federal tax credit, available through 2016, for any size project.
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Solar power in South Carolina
Solar power in South Carolina is rapidly becoming competitive with grid electricity, due to the decrease in cost and the eight-year extension to the 30% federal tax credit, which can be used to install any size system.
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Solar power in South Dakota
Solar power in South Dakota has high potential but little practical application.
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Solar power in Tennessee
Solar power in Tennessee is capable of producing much of the state's electricity; however, the industry remains in early stages in the state.
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Solar power in Texas
Solar power in Texas, along with wind power, have the potential to allow Texas to remain an energy-exporting state.
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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 Utah
Solar power in Utah has the potential to provide all of the electricity used in the United States.
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Solar power in Vermont
Solar power in Vermont provides only a small amount of the state's electricity.
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Solar power in Virginia
Solar power in Virginia on rooftops is estimated to be capable of providing 32.4% of electricity used in Virginia using 28,500 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Washington
Solar power in Washington has expanded to 27 MW, largely due to a 30% federal tax credit, and declining installation costs.
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Solar power in Washington, D.C.
Solar power in Washington, D.C. has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, especially a 30% tax credit, which has been extended with a phase down approach.
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Solar power in West Virginia
Solar power in West Virginia on rooftops can provide 23% of all electricity used in West Virginia from 6,300 MW of solar panels, but West Virginia will be the last state in the United States to reach grid parity - the point where solar panels are cheaper than grid electricity - without incentives, due to the low cost of electricity - about 6.2¢/kWh.
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Solar power in Wisconsin
Solar power in Wisconsin on rooftops is estimated to be able to provide 35.5% of the electricity used in Wisconsin, using 14,000 MW of solar panels.
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Solar power in Wyoming
Solar power in Wyoming has the potential to generate 72 million MWh/yr.
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Solar power tower
The solar power tower, also known as 'central tower' power plants or 'heliostat' power plants or power towers, is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight.
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Solar Renewable Energy Certificate
Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) or Solar Renewable Energy Credits are a form of Renewable Energy Certificate or "Green tag" existing in the United States of America.
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Solar Star
Solar Star is a 579-megawatt (MWAC) photovoltaic power station near Rosamond, California.
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Solar thermal energy
Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy or electrical energy for use in industry, and in the residential and commercial sectors.
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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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SolarCity
SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. that specializes in solar energy services and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
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SolarStrong
SolarStrong is a plan to equip United States military housing and other structures with photovoltaic system Solar panels.
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SolarWorld
SolarWorld is a German company dedicated to the manufacture and marketing photovoltaic products worldwide by integrating all components of the solar value chain, from feedstock (polysilicon) to module production, from trade with solar panels to the promotion and construction of turn-key solar power systems.
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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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Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.
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Sonoran Solar Project
The 300 MW Sonoran Solar Project is a proposed solar energy project in the Sonoran Desert, within Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Springbok Solar Farm
The Springbok Solar Farm is a solar farm in the northwestern Mojave Desert, near California City in eastern Kern County, California.
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Stateline Solar
Desert Stateline Solar Facility is a 300 megawatt (MW), utility-scale solar photovoltaic power station originally constructed by First Solar in San Bernardino County California, near the Nevada state line.
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SunEdison
SunEdison, Inc. (formerly MEMC Electronic Materials) is a renewable energy company headquartered in the U.S. In addition to developing, building, owning, and operating solar power plants and wind energy plants, it also manufactures high purity polysilicon, monocrystalline silicon ingots, silicon wafers, solar modules, solar energy systems, and solar module racking systems.
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Sungevity
Sungevity is a solar electricity company based in Oakland, California.
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Sunrun
Sunrun Inc. is a United States-based provider of residential solar electricity, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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SunShot Initiative
The SunShot Initiative is a federal government program run by the US Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Office.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Solar Project
The SOLAR Project consists of the Solar One, Solar Two and Solar Tres solar thermal power plants based in the Mojave Desert, United States and Andalucía, Spain.
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Tonopah, Nevada
Tonopah is an unincorporated town in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States.
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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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Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is an office in the United States Federal government.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is a nonprofit science advocacy organization based in the United States.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a cabinet-level department of the United States Government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material.
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United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.
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United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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United States Senate Committee on Finance
The United States Senate Committee on Finance (or, less formally, Senate Finance Committee) is a standing committee of the United States Senate.
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University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD, UDel, or U of D) is a public research university located in Newark, Delaware.
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Utility pole
A utility pole is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as transformers and street lights.
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Vacuum evaporation
Vacuum evaporation is the process of causing the pressure in a liquid-filled container to be reduced below the vapor pressure of the liquid, causing the liquid to evaporate at a lower temperature than normal.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Wafer
In gastronomy, a wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes.
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Wafer (electronics)
A wafer, also called a slice or substrate, is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a crystalline silicon, used in electronics for the fabrication of integrated circuits and in photovoltaics for conventional, wafer-based solar cells.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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Westlands Solar Park
The Westlands Solar Park is a planned, large-scale solar power project in Kings County south of Fresno, California.
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Yuma County, Arizona
Yuma County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona.
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1366 Technologies
1366 Technologies is a company based in Bedford, Massachusetts that has developed a technique to produce silicon wafers by casting them in their ultimate shape directly in a mold, rather than the prevailing standard method in which wafers are cut from a large ingot.
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