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Solar with fossil fuels: partner or competitor?

Hybrid utilities: Fossil fuels are usually considered a competitor to solar technologies, not a partner. But utilities in the U.S. are installing concentrated solar power technologies at their existing coal and natural gas power plants. The trend can bring either added competition or opportunity for the PV market.

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pv magazine

07 May 2012

Five years ago, at the Solar Power conference in Long Beach, California, a man named Charlie Todd worked the exhibit hall, passing out brochures advertising something called CoalSol. It claimed to be a company selling coal-solar-hybrid technology, but actually it was just a joke. Todd, the founder of a comedy group called Improv Everywhere, had …

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