Golden / Tucson / Daggett / Leipzig / Las Vegas / Washington / Seville / Guadix / Phoenix / Morbach / Frankfurt / /
Company
Acciona / Abengoa Solar / Hoover / Southern California Edison / First Solar / Pacific Gas and Electric / SunPower Corporation / BrightSource Energy / National Renewable Energy Laboratory / NV Energy / Nanosolar / /
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Germany / Iran / United States / Spain / /
Currency
USD / EUR / /
Event
M&A / Environmental Issue / Business Partnership / /
Facility
National Renewable Energy Laboratory / Hoover Dam / But Hoover Dam / Solar Electric Generating Station / Fraunhofer Institute / Solana Generating Station / Nellis Air Force Base / Power towers / /
Holiday
Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
oil embargo / nighttime electricity requirements / big solar technology / electric car / renewable energy capacity / Last year oil prices / long steel pipes / electricity supply / gas-fired power plant / energy policy / energy sources / gas-fired neighbor / energy supply / thermal energy equal / energy / solar technology / renewable electricity / oil coursing / foreign oil / Gas plants / energy equation / peak electricity demand / early mass producer / renewable energy / paint / oil / electricity / deadline requiring utilities / energy landscape / energy complex / electricity production / thin-film technology / oil shock / oil pipes / pent-up energy / for doubling the country's renewable energy capacity / /
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Lake Mead / Harper Lake / Mojave Desert / Colorado River / Mojave / Black Forest / /
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Obama Administration / MIT / Rural Electrification Administration / Congress / White House / National Geographic Society / Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems / Tennessee Valley Authority / /
Person
Robert Hawsey / Roland Hulstrom / Daniel Nocera / Barack Obama / Mark Mehos / Jimmy Carter / Michelle Price / George Johnson Early / Ray Stults / Robert Cable / Vince Vance / Valerio Fernández / Eicke Weber / Ronald Reagan / Wolfgang Schnürer / /
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mass producer / waterless Harper / President / director of the plant / associate director of the lab / producer / engineer / associate director of the laboratory / chemist / program manager / director / associate director / writer / plant manager / energy manager / /
Published: September[removed]Plugging Into the Sun Sunlight bathes us in far more energy than we could ever need—if we could just catch enough. By George Johnson