Featured in Cracking the code – 03-2011

Big policy push

The U.S. solar market: After two years of investing billions of dollars into solar research and deployment, U.S. President Barack Obama is strategizing ways to gain political support for his goals of boosting solar energy generation and reducing its installation cost to one dollar per watt.

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pv magazine

28 Feb 2011

Gigawatts of utility contracts have been signed; more states are adopting renewable energy policies; and Congress extended a grant program favored by solar energy project developers. And wait, there is also President Obama’s bold pronouncement during his 2011 State of the Union address that the country should work toward getting 80 percent of its electricity …

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