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  2. Renewable energy - Wikipedia

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    Renewable energy in developing countries is an increasingly used alternative to fossil fuel energy, as these countries scale up their energy supplies and address energy poverty. Renewable energy technology was once seen as unaffordable for developing countries. [ 202 ]

  3. Timeline of solar cells - Wikipedia

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    2019 – The world record for solar cell efficiency at 47.1% was achieved by using multi-junction concentrator solar cells, developed at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado, USA. [43] [additional citation(s) needed] This is above the standard rating of 37% for polycrystalline photovoltaic or thin-film solar cells as of 2018.

  4. History of energy - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Young - the first to use the term "energy" to refer to kinetic energy in its modern sense, in 1802. In the history of physics, the history of energy examines the gradual development of energy as a central scientific concept.

  5. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  6. SolarCity - Wikipedia

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    SolarCity was involved in a collaboration with the program along with the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Hawaiian Electric Industries. Using government and taxpayer funds, SolarCity helped 2,500 Hawaii residential customers connect their solar power systems to the grid by the end of December 2015.

  7. Solar Electric Light Fund - Wikipedia

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    SELF was founded in 1990 by Neville Williams, [9] ... Renewable Energy World Magazine, 12 July 2013. ... Taylor, Darren. "Solar Energy Illuminates Darkest Parts of ...

  8. The Solutions Project - Wikipedia

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    The Solutions Project is an organization first conceived in 2011 by prominent figures in science, business and the entertainment media with the goal of utilizing the combined efforts of individuals in the fields of science, business and culture to accelerate the transition to 100% renewable energy use in the United States. [1]

  9. Robert Ehrlich (physicist) - Wikipedia

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    Robert Ehrlich in 2020. Robert Ehrlich (born 1938) is an American physicist. He has a Bachelor of Science (ϕβκ) [1] from Brooklyn College (1959), and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University (1964), where he participated in the Nobel prize-winning muon neutrino experiment. [2]