| These days there are simply thousands of solar | | | | and all of the major power companies that are looking |
| power companies that are able to supply solar power | | | | for real growth opportunities are planning to capture a |
| equipment to homeowners who want to save money | | | | share of the market. |
| on their energy costs. | | | | The world's global energy leaders are seeing the real |
| We have seen vast amounts of progress over the | | | | future growth opportunities in large scale solar power. |
| past few years. Today it is easier than ever to build a | | | | They are manufacturing solar steam boilers not only |
| small scale solar energy system for your home with | | | | for stand-alone solar power plants but also to work |
| the reduction in the cost of solar cells. You can even | | | | alongside fossil fuel power plants. |
| find how to guides on the internet for next to nothing. | | | | Syria and Turkey have agreed to establish a joint |
| That being said, what I wanted to focus on in this | | | | company to produce solar and renewable energies |
| article was that changes have also been taking place | | | | equipments with plans recruit 100 specialist workers to |
| among the major traditional power companies around | | | | begin producing 24,000 solar energy sets annually. The |
| the world. Most of the major power companies are | | | | US Company Areva is acquiring 100% of the |
| now committed to providing a diverse portfolio of CO2 | | | | Australian Company Ausra which provides large scale |
| free energy generation solutions to customers. | | | | concentrated solar energy solutions. |
| They are actively acquiring and buying into some of | | | | These are just two examples of major joint ventures |
| the smaller alternative energy suppliers. They are | | | | that have taken place recently and we can be sure |
| consistently looking for expertise in solar cell production | | | | that more are taking place as the large solar power |
| and wind turbine plants and are even getting involved in | | | | companies position themselves within the renewable |
| developing biomass fuelled plants. These are | | | | energy market place. |
| companies that are all but shelving their nuclear power | | | | These manoeuvrings can only mean a better deal not |
| plant programs in favour of renewable energy | | | | only for the ordinary consumer but for our planet too. |
| solutions. | | | | So we shall observe carefully the emerging solar |
| The market for concentrated solar energy plants is | | | | power companies and the government's plans and |
| expected to grow substantially in the next decade with | | | | continuing efforts to assist in helping the ordinary |
| an annual growth of 20%. It is estimated that the | | | | homeowner to a save money on their energy cost by |
| installed capacity will be in excess of 20 GW by 2020 | | | | installing a small scale solar energy systems. |