Solar shades "started very techie-looking and didn't fit into every residential application, " says JoEllen Ropele, merchandising manager.
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Solar manufacturers have started looking at the U.S. and emerging countries in Asia to replace falling sales in Europe.
It started its solar enterprise three years ago but that now accounts for half of its business.
Gronet, a former executive at Applied Materials, started working on solar energy as a graduate student at Stanford University in the early 1980s.
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Diaz started experimenting with the "Solar Bottle Bulb" technology after watching YouTube videos of her work in Haiti.
It has also started a number of efficiency and solar power projects that have taken select manufacturing plants off the power grid.
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At which point several manufacturers started making polysilicon specifically and directly for the solar cell market.
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He took time off and started Solyndra in 2005, convinced his new solar design would be a breakthrough.
Then people started making the ingot in the purity and quantities that solar required.
All of a sudden I started getting legitimate leads coming in from people who were doing research on solar.
R??ter says that from the day he started Conergy with a loan from his mother, he always used the best solar technology available and engineered his own hardware for mounting panels and connecting them to the grid.
Wartena started GELI in 2010 to tackle the emerging markets of storing renewable energy such as solar power and for managing electric car charging.
"We started seeing orders drop off four months ago, " says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
It's taken more than six years of development, but a new imaging system for the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope finally started capturing images last month, and promises to aid significantly in the search for planets outside our solar system (otherwise known as exoplanets).
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