Put a solar cell at the focus of that mirror and you have an inexpensive solar-energy collector.
First Solar continues its focus on cost reduction with the management taking several steps to further reduce costs over the years to come.
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Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solar energy equipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
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The increased focus on solar energy by many countries has led to a direct increase in the demand for polysilicon in the recent past.
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Google said its "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal" initiative will focus initially on solar thermal power, wind power technologies, geothermal systems and other technologies.
Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) said its "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal" initiative will focus initially on solar thermal power, wind power technologies, geothermal systems and other technologies.
NRG, a power plant developer who has invested in some of the largest solar power projects in the country, decided to give SCS a try as it sought to expand its focus to include not just mega solar farms in remote locations but also smaller projects on commercial properties close to or within cities.
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But the focus for now is on solar, so that quality, performance, and ROI can be assured.
It meant that we had a new energy policy that would focus on clean energy -- solar and wind and biodiesel.
The space agency has retired its fleet of space shuttles and plans to turn much of its focus toward exploring deep into the solar system.
Gump said the ability to produce fuel in space would be a boon for NASA, as the U.S. space agency shifts its focus toward exploring deeper into the solar system.
My focus for the most part is solar and I have coupled a technical approach with the idea that these stocks may get some juice into and immediately after the speech.
Run by NOAA once aloft, the modernized satellite would focus on warning the Earth about incoming solar winds.
Solar thermal projects deploy fields of mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun on liquid-filled boilers to create steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
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BrightSource generates electricity using an approach called concentrated solar power, in which computer-controlled mirrors, known as heliostats, focus the sun's heat to boil water and turn a steam turbine.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the company's focus is on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and organic solar technology, specifically the conductive inks and process technologies that enable those and other similar applications.
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Utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) systems that produce electricity using lenses or mirrors to focus radiation on thermal collectors or photovoltaic cells draw criticism from environmental groups for taking up too much desert land, thus displacing certain animal and reptile species.
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"We're handing off to the private sector our transportation to the International Space Station so that Nasa can focus on what we do best - exploring even deeper into our Solar System, with missions to an asteroid and Mars on the horizon, " explained agency administrator Charles Bolden.
Companies that focus on marketing and signing up customers have emerged in recent years as the solar market grows and matures.
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As we begin 2012, our focus is on operational excellence in completing our restructuring plan and profitably growing our solar and semiconductor businesses.
With the political conventions rapidly approaching and the focus of Washington turning to 2009, some unfinished pieces of business have the solar industry unsettled.
System providers like Q-Cells and First Solar will continue to sell in Germany, but there's more incentive now to focus on other countries where the market is still tiny.
The central focus of carbon dioxide restrictions will be replacing coal and natural gas electricity with wind and solar power.
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Now the company is shifting its strategy to focus more on selling its power plants and power plant development expertise and less on selling solar panels to distributors and other buyers.
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The increasing focus by countries on renewable sources of power in the last few years has made the solar industry highly competitive with companies differentiating themselves largely on module manufacturing costs and module efficiency.
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