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Lessons Learned (10) at RETECH

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1. Did you know 37 countries have legally binding Renewable Energy Standards? The United States (U.S.) isn’t one. How is that possible!!!

2. Six percent of the U.S.’s energy is spent moving water around. In California, it’s 20%. Wow. That’s a lot.

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Government, Industry United on How to Grow Clean Tech

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Dr. Charlie Gay speaks at RETECH 2010. Photo courtesy of Michael Lanzano

Long term and consistent public policy is the most important catalyst to growing the domestic clean tech industry, argued leaders of government and industry at the RETECH 2010 plenary sessions in Washington, D.C. today. Kicking off this theme was Under Secretary of Energy, Dr. Kristina Johnson, who’s leading the DOE’s research funding efforts to spur investment in solar, wind, biofuels, and other renewable technologies.

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We Could Start Saving the Planet Today

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Last week, I attended the Western Governors’ Association meeting, a non partisan gathering of state governors, staff and industry focused on improving how the west collaborates on regional problems. Several speaker panels focused on how best to make progress in generating energy from renewable sources.

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First SunFab User Group Meets

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The solar team kicked off the week at the Solar Power Conference by hosting a photovoltaic (PV) Systems User Group workshop with our SunFab customers. Held the day ahead of the Solar Power conference, based on feedback it was a total success!

Our goal for the workshop was to bring SunFab customers together to provide details on our efforts to further solidify the SunFab 5.7 m2 panels as the industry standard.More

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