But over the past few years, the rapid expansion of low-cost Chinese manufacturers like Suntech, Yingli and Trina has sent the cost of conventional solar panels plummeting.
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Providing assistance for carbon-tax-induced increases in energy bills to all low- and moderate-income households would require a major expansion of the program, a substantial increase in administrative costs, and possibly a major overhaul of the program.
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The expansion allows all low-income people, or those under 133 percent of the poverty line, to qualify, according to NPR.
Birns says that as Africa's cities get more populated and as demand for business is growing, the expansion of the low-cost model should revolutionize the continent's air transport in the same way that it did in North America, Europe and now in Asia.
For Exxon, the merger spells expansion at relatively low prices -- the old John D.
Obama would extend the 2009 expansion of tax credits for low- and moderate-income families.
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The expansion at Stansted arguably fostered the low-cost airline industry by offering it cheap landing rights there but it failed to relieve congestion at Heathrow.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
The double-digit expansion, coming from such a low, means only a 0.3% contribution to economic activity.
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But the new budget office analysis does not include the cost of a proposed expansion of the federally funded Medicaid system for low-income families, a proposal expected to add several hundred billion to the tab.
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Investors now worry that mobile telecoms is merely a low-growth utility, rather than an industry on the verge of a new phase of explosive expansion.
The court's ruling that states can choose not to comply with the law's Medicaid expansion could complicate decision-making for other employers that were betting some of their low-wage workers would get funneled into Medicaid under the law.
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