But Junfeng Li of the China Renewable Energy Industries Association has a more optimistic outlook.
Both A123 and Advanced Energy Industries are also on track to substantially exceed their 2010 investments.
The administration claims it isn't, and is backed by the auto and energy industries in that claim.
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), told some 3, 000 conference-goers.
"This is just a first ride, " says Frank Maisano, a spokesman for several different energy industries in Washington.
Much of the trading was in industries dependent on government help, such as the financial-services and renewable-energy industries.
Gelman formerly was CFO of Delek Group, an Israeli conglomerate involved in the automotive, insurance and energy industries.
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The company's businesses include services for engineering, construction, technology, chemicals and energy industries.
Entrenched energy industries like to say that renewable energy can never provide a significant amount of U.S. energy needs.
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"We started seeing orders drop off four months ago, " says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
See, our competitors are racing to create jobs and command growing energy industries.
Rhone Resch, executive director of the Solar Energy Industries Association in Washington, D.
Russian oil-and-gas companies have bought up large chunks of energy industries in eastern Europe and are trying to buy more.
Now, getting these clean energy industries to locate here requires us to maintain a national commitment to new research and development.
We can learn from other countries that have tried and failed in their attempts to champion new green energy industries while creating jobs.
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And do any of you believe we can gain a political consensus for doing that without growing clean energy industries here in America?
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Texas and Oklahoma weathered the downturn better than most, thanks to strong local energy industries and the absence of a housing boom and bust.
Fiat has extensive interests in the automotive, insurance and energy industries.
As the securities, accounting and energy industries try to recover from scandals of their own, HCA offers a bittersweet taste of what happens in the aftermath.
For a start, by pledging a big chunk of government money to hydrogen research, Mr Bush is helping his natural constituents in the car and energy industries.
But the attendance of executives from heavily scrutinized companies in its technology and alternative-energy industries could provide them opportunities to make their case to an audience including world leaders.
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Washington is taking over wide swaths of the for-profit economy, including major portions of the mortgage, automotive and energy industries, the health care field and the banking and insurance sectors.
Unfortunately it will do nothing to solve the root of the problem, which is that for 30 years Congress has done little to support the development of domestic clean energy industries.
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Overall, China views promotion of green sectors as sound industrial policy: it aims to be the world market leader in solar panels, wind turbines, fuel-efficient cars, and other clean energy industries.
As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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Please give me some good arguments on why we should continue to support long established energy industries and neglect to give an equal and fair chance for new sources of energy?
Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Denmark and a host of other international competitors are also fast at work building domestic clean energy industries with a multifaceted focus on innovation, manufacturing, and markets.
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Cumulatively, the country had about 7.2 gigawatts of solar generation capacity from solar panels by the end of 2012, according to a report by GTM Research the Solar Energy Industries Association.
The residential market grew 62% in 2012 when solar companies installed 488 megawatts of solar panels across the country, said a report by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association is seeking an eight year extension of the tax credit--their top legislative priority--and they say that the majority of lawmakers in both the House and Senate support the extension.
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