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ARIZONA JOBS! FEBRUARY 2011 REPORT: Seasonal Job Gains in February; Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 9.6%

by Jeff Cameron April 9, 2011 Breaking NEWS!

Sorry for the delay, this came out about 2 weeks ago. Good news, 23,400 jobs were created. Lower than the normal rate of seasonal activity but positive. Over half of the jobs, 12,000 were in the private sector. I keep seeing more and more job relocations to the state.

Did you see that First Solar selected …

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AWESOME! Let’s Hope So! Tempe’s First Solar considering Mesa for site of sun-panel factory

by Jeff Cameron February 19, 2011 Business

Being the Valley of the Sun, we should be the Valley of Solar. Exporting energy to other states and bringing high paying jobs to Arizona. This is not the only alternative energy that would work here, but the one to discuss today. I have heard people say, Solar is just buying panels from China and …

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First Solar – Goal to Be Competitive with Traditional Energy without Subsidies

by Jeff Cameron May 20, 2010 Local Businesses

Interest read about the CEO of First Solar. I look forward to a day when Arizona and Arizona companies lead the way in Solar technology!

A year ago, Rob Gillette wasn’t even sure what Tempe-based First Solar Inc. did.

Today, he’ll tell a Scottsdale audience how he became CEO of the biggest solar-panel maker in …

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NEW FACTORY FOR FIRST SOLAR IN FRANCE

by admin July 28, 2009 Real Estate Market Update

More good news for our local solar company First Solar. The won a contract to build the largest solar-panel factory in France, as reported by Luci Scott in the Arizona Republic. It will be a $130 million power plant that will employ over 300, good paying jobs, when it is completed in 2011.

It would be …

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