In the United States, solar waters heaters generally sit atop individual homes and businesses, and the hot water is seldom used for space heating.
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In the West, Xcel Energy (nyse: XEL - news - people ) last month issued requests for proposals to expand its wind facilities in Minnesota, and the company recently announced plans to build the largest solar plant in the United States in Colorado.
Tice says that companies like General Electric (which last week announced plans to build the largest solar power factory in the United States) have approached D.
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The photovoltaic cells in Panasonic's solar panels are manufactured in the United States in Salem, Ore.
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This development was partially presented at 19th International Conference on the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy held on Pasadena, United States on July 30, 2012.
The prognosis is not only shocking, but it also answers a perennial question, at least for now, about whether solar manufacturing can thrive in the United States.
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If you were to listen to Secretary Chu and the White House, they would have you believe that the United States is currently engaged in a global solar race with China, reminiscent of the Cold War.
Latrique, a media liaison at the United Nations in New York, carries his personal solar panel with him every day "just in case, for any reason, I'm stuck in a situation where I won't have access to an outlet, " he says.
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In December United Technologies bought part of Clipper Wind and in January First Solar bought solar development projects from Edison International.
SolarReserve is licensing technology from the big, experienced conglomerate United Technologies that was used in a now demolished project called Solar Two, also in the Mojave.
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The first is Abengoa Solar, a company that has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the world right here in the United States.
For us not to be the leaders in investing in clean energy manufacturing so that wind turbines and solar panels are not only designed here in the United States but made here in the United States makes absolutely no sense.
That was the number installed in the United States in 2012, when 3.3 gigawatts of the solar equipment materialized to representing a 76% annual growth.
As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.
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Well, how about investment in clean energy so that the solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars are built here in the United States?
China now manufactures more solar cells than any nation in the world, and recently surpassed the United States as the largest market for wind turbines in 2009.
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Solar-powered electric car charging stations should soon be scattered across the United States now that Mitsubishi has launched its first of these facilities at its North American headquarters in Cypress, California.
While the United States was once a pioneer in developing and commercializing clean energy technologies, from solar cells to nuclear power, we now lag behind our competitors in Asia and Europe in the production of virtually all clean technologies.
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In addition to U.S. imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese-made solar panels and wind towers, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States recommended that President Obama block a Chinese purchase of a U.S. wind farm in Oregon, which he did, reaffirming his view of China as an economic rival.
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White House Science Advisor John Holdren and Sir John Beddington, Science Advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a recent joint article "Celestial Storm Warnings" published in the New York Times, warned that a solar flare from the Sun could cause a great geomagnetic storm, with catastrophic consequences for the United States and the world.
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