By Copyright 2008 Albuquerque Journal BY ANDREW WEBB Journal Staff Writer New Mexico pitched $130 million in incentives to lure a 1,500- employee solar technology plant to Albuquerque, beating out more than a dozen other states, Mexico and Canada.

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By Woodside, Christine Utility-Grade Solar is Becoming Practical In the struggling industrial city of Brockton, Massachusetts, city officials have opened a tiny utility-scale solar electricity plant on the four-acre site of an abandoned gas plant.