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Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey

Tim Cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet conference today: Apple is putting a massive $848 million into solar energy. According to Cook, Apple i

SolarCity's CEO On What's Holding Back Solar Power In America: It's 50 Markets, Not One

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/lyndonrive.jpg?w=300" class="shot2" /></img> Solar City, a company that designs, installs, and leases out solar power systems to home and bus

Research firm: Global solar cell market to explode by 2012, America will gain influence

Market research company Fuji Keizai is predicting the global market for solar cells will grow 27% annually until 2012, when it supposedly will reach a size of $42.5 billion. In 2007, the market was wo