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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (2ndR) speaks to workers next to Ecology Minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (R) as he visits solar panel maker Photowatt, which was placed in bankruptcy protection last November 2011, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, central France, on February 14, 2012. French...

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In this Jan. 26, 2012 photo Vladimiro Matos stands in his office in Alenquer, a small town near Lisbon, Portugal. Matos owns a small company selling and installing electrical appliances such as solar panels and air-conditioning units. The 63-year-old, who 40 years ago joined the company...

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Amonix solar panels are reflected in a pond at the Lyle Center on the Cal Poly Pomona campus in Pomona, California January 17, 2012. A fledgling but fast-growing solar technology, also known as concentrating photovoltaics, or CPV, that multiplies the sun's power up to many hundreds of...

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Amonix field engineer John Laurent inspects solar panel cells at the Lyle Center on the Cal Poly Pomona campus in Pomona, California January 17, 2012. A fledgling but fast-growing solar technology, also known as concentrating photovoltaics, or CPV, that multiplies the sun's power up to...

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Vice Chairman and Managing Director of 'Mahindra and Mahindra', an Indian multinational automaker company, Anand Mahindra (L) and Indian Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Farooq Abdullah speak after unveiling a commemorative plaque for a 5 Mega Watt solar power plant...

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A Sherpa 50 battery by Goal Zero is displayed during "CES Unveiled," a media preview event, at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada January 8, 2012. The battery can be recharged with solar panels or conventionally, allowing campers, hunters or...

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David LeSuer (L), director technical field operations of SkyFuel, and Alison Mason, director of marketing of Reflectech, walk beside a SkyTrough parabolic-shaped solar collector in Arvada, Colorado in this April 29, 2009 file photo. Only four years ago, hundreds of start-ups...

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U.S. Secret Service agents walk among thousands of solar panels generating electricity at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada in this May 27, 2009 file photo. Only four years ago, hundreds of start-ups optimistically built factories and churned out solar panels to meet rising...

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Solar panels are seen in the parking lot of 1929 building Walter J Towers, near downtown Los Angeles, California in this August 26, 2011 file photo. Only four years ago, hundreds of start-ups optimistically built factories and churned out solar panels to meet rising demand. Now,...

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File photo of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (L) watching workers assemble a solar panel, printed with a special message to mark Solon's production of the equivalent of one gigawatt of electric power from the solar panels it has manufactured up the present day, during his visit to the...

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File photo of a construction worker fixing solar panels for a new solar power plant near Olching-Esting westward of Munich July 7, 2010. Workers in Germany's once gleaming solar sector face a shakeout of major proportions following declines in the price of solar panels over the past year.

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File photo of sheep grazing between the solar panels of a solar park in Waghaeusel, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Karlsruhe, March 21, 2011. Workers in Germany's once gleaming solar sector face a shakeout of major proportions following declines in the price of solar panels over the past...

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Solar panels are pictured during the opening of the Hazelmere Solar Power Plant inaugurated by South Africa President in Durban on December 4, 2011. Climate talks in Durban are on track to help poor and vulnerable nations deal with increasingly fierce heatwaves, storms and drought, the...

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A protestor holds up a solar panel during a climate change summit held in the city of Durban, South Africa, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. At a time of deep concern over global warming, a group of scientists, philosophers and legal scholars examined whether human intervention could artificially...

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A worker smoothes out cement in front of a building covered in solar panels near the factory of Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, also known as Yingli Solar, in the city of Baoding, Hebei Province in this June 20, 2011 file photo. Generous state bank loans to Chinese solar companies,...

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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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Lead Processing Engineer Patrick O'Keefe, right, talks to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, as they watch a robot at work during a tour of the General Electric Prime Star solar manufacturing plant in Arvada, Colo. , on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Chu says the global market for solar energy...

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) (L) talks with ranking member Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) during a hearing about the failed solar panel company Solyndra on Capitol Hill...

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 17: Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing about the government support for the failed solar panel company Solyndra on Capitol Hill November 17, 2011 in...

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Wind turbines operate at the newly-built Capital Wind Farm near Tarago near Canberra in this October 30, 2009 file photo. Australia is set to unlock more than A$13 billion in government funds for clean energy that could boost investments for large solar power stations, but wind farm...

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Australia's Minister for Innovation, Science and Research, Kim Carr, walks among solar panels at an office building in Sydney in this July 21, 2010 file photo. Australia is set to unlock more than A$13 billion in government funds for clean energy that could boost investments for large...

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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - NOVEMBER 05: Solar panels can be seen on residences as Prince Charles, Prince of Wales visits the Khayalitsha Township to view an environmental project involving solar energy on day four of a five day tour of South Africa on November 5, 2011 in Cape Town,...

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In this handout image provided by Ap Verheggen, a digital artist impression shows a solar panel installation in the desert with ice-making capabilities. Is it a piece of art, or a groundbreaking water experiment in the desert? Take the design of a leaf, nature's master at absorbing the...

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U.S. President Barack Obama (C) talks with workers as he tours Solyndra, Inc. , a solar panel manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, in this May 26, 2010 file photo. David Prend (not pictured) is one of the most respected investors in green technology � but even he picks some...

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Sales staff display a ceramic solar panel to customers at an architectural and design trade exhibition in Beijing on October 20, 2011. In a new show of anger at China's trade practices, a major US maker of solar cells and panels announced on October 19 it was filing a formal complaint...