The report puts the year the leading solar manufacturers will return to positive margins at 2014.
Going solar accelerates the return on investment for drivers of cars like the Honda Fit EV, the electric version of its popular subcompact, and owners also get to zero out their carbon emissions by fueling from the sun.
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The most important thing for an investor trying to get in on the solar bottom to know is not the most efficient manufacturers today, but the most efficient when the market begins to revive, and when solar manufacturers will return to profitability.
The book expresses the growing concern among more careful real climate scientists, rather than political scientists, that trends in solar activity portend a return to the cold, limited agricultural output, and widespread disease of the Little Ice Age, or even a more full blown, overdue by historical standards, real ice age.
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Until recently, the organization was able to provide an avenue for people to fund solar projects, but not to receive a positive return on investment.
The control unit ends up in a lower orbit, but it can then use solar power and the electrodynamic properties of the tether to return to its original orbit.
Shiona Baird, the Scottish Green Party's energy spokeswoman, is proposing a Holyrood bill to give householders and businesses council tax breaks and business rates rebates in return for installing renewable energy devices such as solar roofs and mini-wind turbines.
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Large power companies such as NRG Energy Inc. and Mid American Energy Holdings Co. have been buying solar projects because the low prices of panels are improving the return on investment of such projects.
Until relatively recently, the solar energy industry had been too young, and the technology too new, to accurately predict return on investment.
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Eden plans to return to college, but for now she is passionately pursuing her dream of spreading her solar technology to where it is needed most.
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For the solar energy industry to truly mature, it needs a performance model that can offer investors confidence and predictability in their return on investment.
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