Silicon Valley Office Building Reaches for LEED Platinum
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A new office building set to open this spring in Silicon Valley is using innovative building and design strategies to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
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First Solar Shuts Down Alternative PV Tech Project
TEMPE, Ariz. — First Solar, a Tempe, Ariz.-based producer of thin film solar modules, is closing an alternative photovoltaic technology project rumored to employ the same technology as Solyndra, though the company is not disclosing the details of the research.
First Solar and Solyndra are among a group of Western panel makers undercut by cheaper competition from Chinese manufacturers such as Suntech Power Holdings Co., the world’s largest, according to Bloomberg Reports.
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