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Author Varadi, Peter F

Title Sun above the horizon : meteoric rise of the solar industry / Peter F. Varadi
Published Singapore : Pan Stanford Pub., ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 528 pages)
Series Pan Stanford series on renewable energy ; v. 5
Pan Stanford series on renewable energy ; v. 5.
Contents Act 1. Dawn : 1972-1984 -- Act 2. Sunrise : 1985-1999 -- Act 3. Towards high noon : 2000-2013
Summary The meteoric rise of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is an incredible story. In 2013, Google's investments in PV systems totaled about half a billion dollars and Warren Buffet, one of the famous investors, invested 2.5 billion in the world's largest PV system in California. These gigantic investments by major financial players were made only 40 years after the first two terrestrial PV companies, Solarex and Solar Power Corporation, were formed in the USA. Back in 1973, the two companies employed 20 people and produced only 500 watts of PV power. Now, just 40 years later, over a million people w
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Subject Solar energy industries -- History
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Solar energy industries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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