World's Largest Solar Plant Planned in Bay Area

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A Palo Alto company has decided to build the world's largest factory for making solar power cells in the Bay Area -- a move that would nearly triple the nation's solar manufacturing capacity and give a significant boost to a growing source of clean energy.

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com...EFEBF?id=45233

If the Google guys are behind this then that has to be a sign of real progress being made in solar.

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Good news and sounds like it's growing fast as well.

Globally, the solar industry totaled $11.2 billion in 2005 -- up 55 percent from a year earlier. It is projected to reach $51 billion by 2015, according data compiled by Clean Edge, a business research firm based in Oakland.