GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.

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SolarCity is moving to capture the home energy efficiency upgrade market the same way the Silicon Valley startup and its competitors turbocharged the market for residential rooftop solar panels: Financial engineering.

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Suntech Power designs, develops, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic products and also provides engineering and construction services for building solar power systems.

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Solar thermal projects, however, are bigger than solar PV installations and they require more complicated engineering and design, the kind of projects Avena excels at.

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During decades of trial and error, the Stanford University scientists overcame engineering glitches, launch delays, budget fights, solar flares, faulty data and seven federal investigations.

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He scoured the world for the perfect battery technology (a combination of lightweight and long charging), added a solar panel for those without plug-in electricity recharge options, leveraged local university engineering talent to make it all work, and delivered a truly silent generator that can run a full size refrigerator for over a day if the power goes down.

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As a mechanical engineering student at the University of Munich, he teased increasing amounts of electricity from solar cells headed into orbit.

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Bosch, the multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate based in Gerlingen, Germany, is pulling the plug on its solar energy business.

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