(Source: MARKETWIRE)Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Solar energy represents a huge potential domestic energy resource for the United States, particularly in the Southwest, where the deserts have some of the best solar-resource levels in the world. In the past, the majority of solar generation was installed for remote-distributed energy use application. For this application, photovoltaic (PV) panels have been the best-suited technology. As utilities put more interest into solar generation projects, solar thermal technologies, especially concentrating solar power (CSP), are gaining more attention.

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