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Solar Power Is Reaching Where Wires Can't
Strategies Unlimited predicts that the leading companies in the industry, like the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Siemens, BP, Sanyo Electric, Sharp, Kyocera and AstroPower, will continue to have revenue growth of about 20 percent a year from these markets. That will make the remote rural market alone worth roughly $2.5 billion by 2005...International organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program have started to put money into projects, and businesses, to help solve the financing problem.