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Factbox: Clean energy companies gain new tax credits
LOS ANGELES |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday awarded $2.3 billion in tax credits to renewable energy companies to help create clean energy jobs.
The credits will be matched by as much as $5.4 billion in private sector funding and provide for investments in more than 180 manufacturing facilities.
Qualifying companies and their requested tax credits include the following:
Solar power industry
Hemlock Semiconductor Corp: $141.9 million
Wacker Polysilicon North America LLC: $128.5 million
Miasole: $101 million
SolarWorld Industries America Inc: $82.2 million
CaliSolar Inc: $51.6 million
DuPont: $50.7 million
Nanosolar: $43.5 million
First Solar: $16 million
SunPower Corp: $10.8 million
Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd: $2 million
BP Solar: $11.7 million
AE Polysilicon: $44.9 million
Wind industry
Vestas: $51.8 million
Siemens: $35.8 million
Nordex USA Inc: $22 million
Other sectors:
Cree Inc, lighting: $39 million
United Technologies Corp, industrial: $110 million
Alstom Inc, nuclear: $65.7 million
Texas Instruments Inc, buildings: $51.5 million
Volkswagen Group of America, auto: $150 million
(Reporting by Laura Isensee)
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