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Solar energy trade group to release study showing U.S. a net exporter of #solar energy products: But not much: $723m in 2009

The top U.S. export in the #solar energy arena: polysilicon. U.S. exports were $1.1 billion in 2009.

(polysilicon, of course, is the feedstock for crystalline silicon photovoltaics) #solar #renewables

Washington warned: "overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty." He would be ignored today.

Encourage you to follow West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) - the only White House correspondent who covers renewable energy

Encourage you to follow West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) - the only White House correspondent who covers renewable energy

White House will announce that #solar panels will be installed in 2011. Carter put them in 30 years ago, Reagan tore them down.

Parts of the White House have long had #solar power: a small Park Service bldg. & the presidential swimming pool is heated by solar thermal

#Obama has said he wants to double U.S. production of renewable energy by 2012; has been under pressure to lead by example #solar #wind

As for #Obama's goal of comprehensive energy/climate legislation: The House passed a bill in '09; a similar bill has gone nowhere in Senate

GEB has asked President #Obama about solar panels (& a small wind-turbine) from nearly day one. Glad to see they are doing it.

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Green Energy Brief is going to China w/the President. Tell me what renewable energy sites/stories I can work on while there. Thanks.

A senior White House official says the President's trip to China "will not result in any kind of climate change agreement."

The White House official was briefing reporters ahead of this week's Presidential trip to Japan/Singapore/China/S.Korea

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I nominate West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) for a Shorty Award in #news http://bit.ly/shorty because they have established a new model for news reporting

Good info from @SiemensBT on safe #PV plant operation variety of new products bit.ly/l3BrW2

Thanks to Brian Addeo for update on IBM lighting/data projects, which are reaping savings while reducing emissions bit.ly/lGmGco