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Yingli Green Energy staff members listen during a press briefing by China's biggest solar energy companies in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. A group of the companies, including giants Suntech Power Holdings Co. , Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. and Trina Solar Ltd. , rejected...

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(L-R) A transition piece, a transformer station and a wind turbine are seen in a wind park 23 km (14 miles) off the coast of Ijmuiden September 3, 2007. In these straitened times even the Dutch, whose very land was created with wind power, are finding the cost of offshore turbines too...

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An artist's rendering provided by SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. shows a modern design for an orbital power plant beaming renewable energy to the developing world in this image released to Reuters on November 12, 2011. The sun's abundant energy, if harvested in space, could provide a...

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) awards the National Medal of Technology to Dr. Jayant Baliga of Raleigh, North Carolina, for the development and commercialization of a range of power semiconductor devices that are extensively used today in lighting,...

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This Oct. 18, 2011 photo shows a vacant former fraternity house on the campus of Drexel University in Philadelphia. The university's student-run project called "Smart House," which aims to turn the house into a laboratory for developing eco-friendly products, is one of three recipients...

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STARNBERG, GERMANY - OCTOBER 15: Workers wait for the crane to get installed solar power modules for producing electricity on the roof of a house on October 15, 2011 in Wessling, Germany. Germany has and is continuing to invest heavily in solar energy, both in the public and private...

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LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 30: U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu (L) and President and CEO of the Center for American Progress John Podesta attend a news conference announcing the beginning of construction for a 24 megawatt solar photovoltaic project at Enel Green Power North America's...

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LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 30: U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu attends a news conference announcing the beginning of construction for a 24 megawatt solar photovoltaic project at Enel Green Power North America's Stillwater Geothermal Plant in Churchill County, Nevada during the...

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In this Aug. 4, 2011 photo, Joel Olsen Jr. , managing director of O2 Energies, talks with workers about the installation of the solar panels at the company's solar power farm in Newland, N.C. Of the 11 states that do not set voluntary or mandatory requirements on how much green energy...

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The O2 Energies solar panel farm grows in the front six acres of a Christmas tree farm in Newland, N.C. , Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Of the 11 states that do not set voluntary or mandatory requirements on how much green energy utilities must buy, eight of those states are clustered in the...

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During a break in the workday, the construction crew finds refuge from the hot sun under a stand of solar panels at the O2 Energies solar power farm in Newland, N.C. , Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Of the 11 states that do not set voluntary or mandatory requirements on how much green energy...

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Bobby Bailey stands on a ladder as his co-worker, Christopher Bailey, no relation, hands up a solar panel as they complete construction on the O2 Energies solar farm in Newland, N.C. , Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011. Of the 11 states that do not set voluntary or mandatory requirements on how...

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Spain's Treasury and Public Administration Minister Cristobal Montoro, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidency and Government spokeswoman Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, and Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Jose Manuel Soria (L-R) attend a news conference after a cabinet...

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A power generating wind turbine spins on a hilltop in Lempster, New Hampshire overlooking the town of Unity July 6, 2011. All aspects of U.S. energy policy are expected to be debated vigorously before the 2012 Presidential election. Mitt Romney, who according to several polls leads all...

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FELDHEIM, GERMANY - JUNE 20: Wind turbines of German alternative energy producer Energiequelle GmbH spin near solar panels on June 20, 2011 near Feldheim, Germany. Feldheim recently won recognition from the state of Brandenburg for becoming exclusively reliant on alternative energy...

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FELDHEIM, GERMANY - JUNE 20: Michael Knape, mayor of Treuenbrietzen, which also includes the village of Feldheim, poses for a portrait in a field of barley on June 20, 2011 in Feldheim, Germany. Feldheim recently won recognition from the state of Brandenburg for becoming exclusively...

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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu talks about solar energy after touring the General Electric Prime Star solar manufacturing plant in Arvada, Colo. , on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Chu says the global market for solar energy remains huge and it's important that the United States stay in the...

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In this photo taken Nov. 12, 2011, wind turbines stand behind houses of the village of Feldheim near Berlin, Germany. This tiny village of 37 gray homes and farm buildings clustered along the main road in a windswept corner of rural eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a...

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CEO of Siemens AG, Peter Loescher, attends a press conference at the Olympic Hall in Munich, Germany, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012. Words at right read: Questions and Answers. Industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said Tuesday that net profit fell 17 percent to 1.46 billion euro ( US $ 1.89...

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ZINGST, GERMANY - MAY 02: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EnBW Chairman Hans-Peter Villis look at a model representing the Baltic 1 offshore wind farm at the official launch of the wind power project at the Baltic Sea on May 2, 2011 in Zingst, Germany. Baltic 1, a project of German...

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This artist rendering released by SolarReserve LLC shows what will be the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a solar generating facility, that is being constructed northwest of Tonopah, Nev. , in Nye County. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, the department...

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File handout photo made available August 22, 2011, shows a train of German railway company Deutsche Bahn at the Maerkisch Linden windpark near Neureupin April 2011. It won't be easy to run a national railway on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power but that is what Germany's...

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California Governor Jerry Brown (R) and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar (C) join Recurrent Energy CEO Arno Harris for a tour of the solar photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) in Elk Grove, California, January 13, 2012. A number...

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Gov. Jerry Brown speaks before he and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signed an agreement to expand a state and federal partnership to allow more than a dozen utility-scale solar energy projects and more than 130 renewable power projects in the state, after touring the Recurrent Energy...

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Recurrent Energy Chief Executive Officer Arno Harris, left, talks with Gov. Jerry Brown, center, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, right, while touring the Recurrent Energy solar project in Elk Grove, Calif. , Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. Brown and Salazar signed an agreement to expand a...