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The Solar Futures Study: how we can get to 45 percent solar electricity by 2050
Reading Time: 8 minutes On September 8, 2021, President Biden made a big announcement for the solar industry: solar has the potential to power 40 percent of U.S. electricity by 2035, and 45 percent by...
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