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Panel installation is expected to start later this year and to be completed in 2008.<\/p>\n<p> Should other major companies in the area follow Applied&rsquo;s example, a move may be forthcoming to change the name of Sunnyvale to Solarvale!<\/p>\n<p> Picture: Applied Materials&#8217; Charlie Gay, Vice President, General Manager, Solar Business Group (right); Bruce Klafter, Senior Director, Environment, Health and Safety, next to Applied&#8217;s existing solar installation.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its attempt to become a shining light in the fast emerging solar energy manufacturing market, Applied Materials wants to lead by example and so has announced that it will be installing over 1.9 megawatts of solar power generation capability at its research campus in Sunnyvale, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"paywall-tags":[],"regions":[],"industry-segments":[],"class_list":["post-77540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - 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