Solar Industry

U.S. Solar Industry Reports Strong Year

AP | JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 05.14.2012

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NEW YORK (AP) — Solar power installations in the U.S. doubled in 2011, helped by plummeting solar panel prices, weak demand for solar abroad and an ...

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Solar Industry Struggles Could Drag On For Some Time

AP | Posted 02.15.2012

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NEW YORK -- Solar panel manufacturers will have a hard time boosting revenues this year with Germany cutting government incentives at a time when the ...

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Bringing Solar Manufacturing Back

Usha Haley | Posted 04.14.2012

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Usha Haley

The U.S. created the solar industry, yet today, China accounts for three-fifths of the world's solar-panel production and exports 95 percent of its production. Against this backdrop, an epic battle is occurring.

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Why Most U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Gone Forever: The Fiscal Times

The Fiscal Times | MERRILL GOOZNER | Posted 02.05.2012

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The day after the State of the Union Address, President Obama visited a Phoenix suburb to tour Intel’s still-under-construction computer chip manufa...

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Lucia Graves

China's Solar Subsidies: Growing The Industry Could Mean Throwing American Manufacturers Under The Bus

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- This fall Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) drew indignant headlines when he said "we can't compete with China to make solar panels and wind t...

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U.S. Solar Industry Goes To Mat Against China

Posted 12.19.2011

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From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: SolarWorld Industries America is taking on alleged illegal solar subsidies by China, asking the Obama administrati...

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Jordan Howard

Solar Industry In Need Of Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Clean energy advocates have long looked to solar power as a way to break the country's dependence on foreign oil. However, the cost of o...

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Solyndra: Will We Learn From Science?

James M. Gentile | Posted 11.27.2011

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James M. Gentile

The key question that is being missed -- and that should be asked now -- is whether the federal government will approach this failure as politicians or as scientists.

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