In April 2009, Walmart expands its partnership with BP Solar to 20 more locations, providing 20% to 30% of their total electricity needs.

2009年4月，沃尔玛将其与BP太阳能公司的合作扩大到20多个地点，提供20%至30%的总电力需求。

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The solar departments of large corporations – besides Sharp and Kyocera, this would include others such as Sanyo, Mitsubishi, BP Solar and Schott – have been left behind at least for now.

除了夏普和京瓷，像Sanyo ，三菱重工， BP Solar 还有Schott 这些仅仅是大公司的太阳能部门暂时要被甩在后面了。

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The importance of the PV energy sector can be gauged by the presence of oil majors such as Shell and BP, whose solar cell production have reached 6% and 7% of the global market respectively in 2004.

光伏能源行业的重要性可以通过壳牌和英国石油这样的石油巨头在这一行业的存在来衡量，他们2004年的太阳能电池产量已经分别占到了全球市场的6%和7%。

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And of course a big Chevron competitor, BP, has a solar division.

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There was a time when BP was a significant part of the solar PV industry: certainly for years it was the majority of the UK industry.

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In its green technologies fund (better known in Silicon Valley these days as "clean technology"), Kleiner Perkins is treading a similar path taken by global giants like General Electric and U.K. oil company BP, both of which have made investments in renewable technologies including wind and solar.

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