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Aggressive, state-driven Renewable Energy Standard

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First Solar provides big fish for solar development

Even if it should have been, First Solar’s decision to land in Mesa wasn’t an easy one, according to pretty much everyone involved in the deal.

First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) has been the 800-pound solar gorilla in the Valley that everyone wanted to be here, but somehow never was. Its headquarters are here, along with about 200 employees, but the economic development folks wanted a U.S. manufacturing facility, which, until this morning, was in the solar mecca of Ohio.

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Power-One opens first North American manufacturing facility in Phoenix

PHOENIX, AZ (Jan. 31, 2011) — Today Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ:PWER), the world’s second-largest manufacturer of power inverters for the renewable energy industry, opened its first North American manufacturing facility in Phoenix that will eventually employ 350 people. Power-One’s Phoenix facility will produce its industry-leading photovoltaic (PV) and wind inverters that convert renewable energy into a usable form of electricity for distribution on the utility grid.

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