The company's report helped boost fellow Chinese solar firms such as JA Solar Holdings, which gained 2.5%, while Trina Solar increased 2.9%, and LDK Solar rose 4.7%.
SunPower gave up 3.5%, and First Solar lost 2.5%.
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Meanwhile, U.S.-based companies were mixed, as Energy Conversion Devices increased 2.6%, SunPower gained 1.4%, though First Solar slipped 0.2% and Evergreen Solar fell 1.7%.
Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 300 million wind turbines, 2, 500 nuclear power plants or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif.
Since the panel produces 4 watts of energy and the tablet uses 2 watts, one hour of solar charging should enable 2 hours of tablet run-time.
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Athens defended the ministerial action by pointing out that Greece had nearly reached its solar goal of 2.2 GW of capacity after a surge in installations over the last two years.
The hope is to generate 150 megawatts of electricity by 2010, with 25 megawatts from a solar array stretching nearly 2 million square feet.
The forced buying has made Germany the world's solar powerhouse, with 2.5 gigawatts installed so far and another 750 megawatts, or more than five times 2006 U.S. demand, expected to be installed this year.
Thin film companies actually increased the megawatts of solar panels they rolled out from roughly 2 gigawatts in 2009 to 3.87 gigawatts in 2011, but silicon solar panel companies boosted their production a lot more during the same period.
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Under the pact, China Sunergy will supply 10.2 megawatts of solar cells to Asola during 2008.
The story says the funds will be targeted at new projectes intended to generate 5.2 GW of solar power.
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That chip, along with the custom charging circuitry developed by OLPC and Marvell means that the tablet can be charged by a hand crank at a 10:1 ratio (10 minutes of usage time for every minute spent cranking), or by the optional four watt solar panel cover at a 2:1 ratio on sunny days.
The solar farm itself should materialize on 2, 600 acres of private land in Imperial County, near the Mexican border.
The solar market likely added 3.2 gigawatts of new generation in 2012, though the final count has yet to be done.
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Her previous research had shown that, when the sun grows brighter, the ozone level rises too: it is up to 2% higher at solar maximum.
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In the lab Cigs has a maximum solar conversion efficiency of 20.2%, better than the 16.5% of a thin-film technology that kicks the pants off the traditional crystalline silicon panels on price per watt of capacity.
The hundreds of photovoltaic chips gathering energy at the center will be cooled by the same sort of microchannel water cooling that kept Aquasar from frying, letting each chip safely concentrate 2, 000 times the solar energy it would normally face.
Belectric said solar panels would cover approximately seven acres (2.8ha) of the 23 acre (9.3ha) site, known as the Rainbows.
As reported by Paul Chesser of the National Legal and Policy Center, 2, 000 pallets of unsold solar panels were recently discovered in Colorado and have been labeled toxic for cadmium.
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In 2012, the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Defenders of Wildlife also filed suit to stop another 663 megawatt 4, 600-acre Calico solar plant to be built on 7.2 square miles in the Mohave Desert northeast of Los Angeles.
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Among the largest underlying components of RSP, in trading today CF Industries Holdings Inc ( NYSE: CF) is down about 2.4%, First Solar Inc ( NASD: FSLR) is up about 1.1%, and Micron Technology Inc. ( NASD: MU) is higher by about 0.4%.
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The Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 for Mac comes with advanced 2.4 GHz wireless connectivity to virtually eliminate delays or dropouts, and a plug-and-forget Unifying receiver that is so small it stays in your laptop, so your keyboard is always ready to use.
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Meanwhile, alternative energy stocks were in rally mode, including a 2.3% gain for First Solar.
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Take Sharp, which since 2000 has led the world in solar panels sold (it dropped to No. 2 last year in the midst of a silicon raw-material shortage).
Despite all the negative press about solar, the price of solar panels (per watt) was 97.2 percent lower in 2012 than in 1975 and the downward trend is continuing.
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"A 5mm (0.2 inches) particle striking a large solar array is likely to have a very little long-lasting effect, but such an object hitting the main body of a satellite could cause a vital component to fail, " he said.
Harris thought the company could deliver 2-megawatt to 5-megawatt of solar panels during the fourth quarter of 2012.
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The second company is Abound Solar Manufacturing, which will manufacture advanced solar panels at two new plants, creating more than 2, 000 construction jobs and 1, 500 permanent jobs.
Solar capacity increased 481 megawatts in 2009 to a total of 2, 108 megawatts nationwide.
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