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Millipore’s chairman and CEO, Martin Madaus, was joined by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and other public figures for a ribbon cutting ceremony that celebrated the company’s completion of its $2 million solar panel installation at its Bedford, Massachusetts, campus. The solar project will provide renewable energy for Millipore’s Bedford and Billerica, Massachusetts sites.

Toshiba has won a major contract to develop a 7.5MW photovoltaic project for Chubu Electric Power, the first multimegawatt order that the company has secured. The solar power system will be installed in the Taketoyo Thermal Power Station in Taketoyo, Aichi. The plant is scheduled to come online in autumn 2011, the company said.