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Tue 12 Dec 2009US to double renewables, says energy secretary
THE UNITED States will double its renewable energy output by 2012 through greater deployment of wind and photovoltaic power, the American energy secretary Stephen Chu has said.
Dr Chu, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, also said that the US department of energy has now “been labelled as the largest venture capital firm of clean energy” in the world.
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