Cleantech Smart Grid Market | Image Source : mercurynews.com Cleantech’s vast ecosystem includes a dizzying array of emerging technologies, from green building materials to electric vehicles, lighting and wind power. But as Silicon Valley reinvents itself as a global center of clean technology, two sectors — solar power and “smart” upgrades to the electric grid — already are reshaping the valley and changing the way energy is produced and used. The Bay Area is believed to have the nation’s largest concentration of cleantech jobs, and much of that job growth has been in solar and smart grid, technologies that leverage the valley’s formidable strengths.

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Silicon Valley Makes Big Push Into Solar and Smart-Grid Technologies