Solar Generation

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GENI has collected the following articles on solar electricity generation, listed here in reverse chronological order:

N.C. region becoming a hotbed for renewable energy, Nov 16, 2011

• China Builds Concentrator Photovoltaic Solar Power Station, Aug 10, 2007
  
  
• Five solar plants scheduled to come on line, Aug 3, 2007
  
  
• Arab countries urge solar future, July 8, 2007
  
  
• Indonesia to build 33,000 more solar power generators, Jun 29, 2007
  
  
• Egypt tries Concentrating Solar Power , February 20,2007
  
  
• Retail Goes Solar, April 30, 2007
  
  
• Target Starts Solar-Power Rollout, April 30, 2007
  
  
• Spanish Solar Thermal Plant First in World Tied to National Grid, April 24, 2007
  
  
• Iran's First Solar Power Plant to Become Operational in 2010, Apr 13, 2007
  
  
• GE Invests, Delivers One of World's Largest Solar Power Plants, Harnessing Portugal's Sunshine, PowerLight's Technology Mar 28, 2007
  
  
• Gulf to get first solar-power plant, Feb 18, 2007
  
  
• State report touts solar energy's bright future, Jan 20, 2007
  
  
• Superefficient, Cost-Effective Solar Cell Breaks Conversion Records, Dec 8, 2006
  
  
• African solar farms to solve energy crisis? Dec 5, 2006
  
  
• Deserts offer cheap source of energy, Nov 21, 2006
  
  
• SDG&E to Buy 120 Megawatts of Solar, Geothermal Energy, Nov 13, 2006
  
  
• Scientists detail desert solar power, Oct 31, 2006
  
  
• SA solar research eclipses rest of the world, Willem Steenkamp, Feb 11, 2006
  
  
• Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun, April 15, 2006
  
  
• Here comes the sun, by Anthony Doman, October 25, 2005
  
  
• SDG&E contracts with largest solar project, Sep 8, 2006
  
  
• PowerLight Furnishes 100 kW Solar Power System for Anaheim Convention Center; Determines Solar Power Alone Can Solve West Coast Power Crunch, August 9, 2001
  
  
• EDITORIAL: Solar eclipse, January 12, 2001
  
  
• Shea Homes and AstroPower Announce Premium Power Partnership, January 3, 2001
  
  
• New Sandia control method opens doors for more photovoltaic systems being safely linked to electric grid, September 26, 2000