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At Conergy AG's Hamburg headquarters, on the top floors of a futuristic building with a striking, curved glass roof, Hans-Martin Rüter, founder and CEO of one of Germany's most successful solar-energy companies, muses over last year's acquisition of New Mexico-- based Dankoff Solar Products...
Conergy, which Rüter founded in 1998, is the world's largest solar-system-integration company, providing more renewable-energy systems than anyone else. They include solar panels for single-family homes in Germany; a rooftop solar system, the biggest of its kind, for the tiremaker Michelin; and solar electricity...
Q-Cells AG, based in Thalheim, has taken a different tack. "We thought it was better to concentrate on one step," says Stefan Lissner, head of investor relations. Three of the company's four founders came from Solon AG, a solar-module company based in Berlin. Unhappy with the quality...
SolarWorld AG, headquartered in Bonn, could be one of the beneficiaries. Founded in 1999, the company began as a distributor of solar modules, then added module production. Today it also produces cells, markets "plug and play" solar systems and develops and installs solar parks. "I didn't want to be...
In 1988 a student at Gallaudet University in Washington called that year's protests demanding a deaf president of the school the "Selma of the deaf." Founded in 1864, Gallaudet is the deaf world's premier institution, and yet it had never been led by a deaf person. The protests...