The report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group, noted the growth between the first and second quarters of this year was particularly impressive given that there was a rush to install solar panels on residential and commercial rooftops by the first quarter as developers feared a key federal incentive would soon expire.
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The Solar Energy Industries Association is seeking an eight year extension of the tax credit--their top legislative priority--and they say that the majority of lawmakers in both the House and Senate support the extension.
The postponement came the day that GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association released a report finding that solar installations in the U.S. hit a record 684 megawatts in the third quarter.
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), told some 3, 000 conference-goers.
"We started seeing orders drop off four months ago, " says Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Rhone Resch, executive director of the Solar Energy Industries Association in Washington, D.
Cumulatively, the country had about 7.2 gigawatts of solar generation capacity from solar panels by the end of 2012, according to a report by GTM Research the Solar Energy Industries Association.
The residential market grew 62% in 2012 when solar companies installed 488 megawatts of solar panels across the country, said a report by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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Cutting the DOE program would "kill all clean energy projects with pending DOE loan guarantee applications, causing the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and many other benefits, " the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a statement.
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has made a particularly concerted push, sponsoring a solar festival at Coors Stadium in Denver during the Democratic National Convention, and constantly reminding lawmakers of the popularity of solar power among the American public.
The energy-intensive industries believe that prices are being manipulated by the gas suppliers.
The energy-intensive industries account for around 2% of UK GDP and 2% of jobs.
But Junfeng Li of the China Renewable Energy Industries Association has a more optimistic outlook.
The administration claims it isn't, and is backed by the auto and energy industries in that claim.
Taken by itself, such a plan would likely be something that developers in the energy and other industries could comply with and still ultimately get their business done.
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Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the supplement and energy-drink industries, called the study "a new, emerging hypothesis, " but said the researchers were drawing large conclusions from small studies of mice, bacteria and human biomarkers.
Texas and Oklahoma weathered the downturn better than most, thanks to strong local energy industries and the absence of a housing boom and bust.
The Chinese government has started to discourage the expansion of energy-intensive industries, including aluminium and steelmaking, in an effort to ease the burden on its grid.
Much of the trading was in industries dependent on government help, such as the financial-services and renewable-energy industries.
Alongside the Bill, ministers will announce plans to exempt energy-intensive industries from additional costs arising from the transition to low-carbon energy.
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Paul Cavey, an economist at Macquarie Securities, argues that the discrepancy is explained by the fact that energy-guzzling heavy industries, such as steel and aluminium, bore the brunt of the slowdown last year.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has funded breakthrough innovation and new growth industries that are driving down the cost of clean energy and building the foundation for competitive 21st century U.S. industries, according to a new White House report released today on the impacts of the U.S. stimulus bill.
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As a nation, we are engaged in many important endeavors: improving the economy, reforming the health care system, encouraging innovation in energy and other growth industries of the 21st century.
And we cannot continue to ignore the clean energy challenge or cede global leadership in the emerging industries of the 21st century.
The report, put together by Bloomberg New Energy Finance and the Business Council on Sustainable Energy, seeks to highlight the successes of the clean power industries.
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There were significant parts of that Recovery Act to make investments that would create good jobs today, but while planting the seeds for great industries of tomorrow with clean energy being at the forefront and the heart of all of it.
Gelman formerly was CFO of Delek Group, an Israeli conglomerate involved in the automotive, insurance and energy industries.
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Fiat has extensive interests in the automotive, insurance and energy industries.
As the securities, accounting and energy industries try to recover from scandals of their own, HCA offers a bittersweet taste of what happens in the aftermath.
Unfortunately it will do nothing to solve the root of the problem, which is that for 30 years Congress has done little to support the development of domestic clean energy industries.
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