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First Solar Inc., the biggest maker of thin-film solar modules, said efficiency improvements are accelerating, which will cut production costs and help it compete with rivals that use polysilicon.
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When a power company tried to run cables over land owned by Larry Salois’s mother near Cut Bank, Montana, the native American fought the $400 million project.
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Untapped mineral riches are fueling Mongolia’s ambition to compete with Australia and Brazil in Asia. The nation's resource-based economy grew 21 percent last quarter alone.
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The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory is offering employees buyouts to try to cut its workforce in preparation for expected government budget cuts.
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Epir Technologies Inc., a U.S. developer of photovoltaic materials, said it produced solar cells on commercial glass from polycrystalline cadmium telluride, turning light into power with higher efficiency.
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Along the steel-gray Quinebaug River in eastern Connecticut, Duncan Broatch is tinkering with machinery that will keep one of his two hydroelectric plants cranking out clean energy. The U.S. needs Broatch’s Summit Hydropower Inc. and other green power providers to make a dent in the 35 percent of the country’s global-warming pollution that comes from burning fossil fuels to make electricity.
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Solar cells may one day use microscopic chunks of semiconductors known as quantum dots to produce more power and cut production costs, according to an article to be published Dec. 16 in the journal Science.
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Arizona Democrats are vying to wrest control of the state utility board so they can expand the use of solar energy in the nation’s sunniest state.
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The first-ever expansion of the U.S. patent office beyond the nation’s capital has Denver, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas, envisioning the next Research Triangle and an accompanying jobs windfall.
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Semprius Inc., a U.S. solar-panel maker, will open its first manufacturing plant this month in Henderson, North Carolina, countering the trend of solar factories shutting their doors.
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