Solar-energy firm is solar-powered (AZ)

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http://www.azstarnet.com/business/270398

Global Solar Energy is practicing what it preaches with the inauguration this week of a new solar field that will partially power its Tucson plant.

The facility at 8500 S. Rita Road will use the solar power to make a lightweight film that, in turn, produces solar power.

The 750-kilowatt solar plant accounts for 25 percent of Global Solar's energy needs.

Global Solar employs 180 people in Tucson and opened a Berlin production facility in November. The company plans to expand and create 40 jobs in 2009, said Mike Gering, Global Solar's president and CEO.

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[silverweb]

1. Excellent.

This is the ideal, of course.

Go, Global Solar!