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El Paso in position to harness sun’s energy

28 July 2008 | Power Generation: News From Around The Web | Source: elpasotimes.com
El Paso could be poised to use the sun's energy as an alternative to fossil fuels because of its unique geographic location and abundantly sunny climate, experts and officials said this weekend at a summit designed to explore to possibilities of developing solar energy here.

Elected officials and scientists and other experts gathered before an estimated 150 people at the University of Texas at El Paso for the annual El Paso Solar Summit 2008 -- an effort to inform El Pasoans about renewable and solar energy as alternatives to fossil fuels.

"El Paso is in an area where we really could be using this technology, and we're not," said Julio Norman, a member of the El Paso Solar Energy Association and a conference attendee. "All of this technology is being used outside of El Paso, outside of Texas, with the exception of wind energy, mainly because we're an oil-rich state."

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