Toledo and Northwest Ohio’s growing reputation as the “Silicon Valley of Solar Energy” was recently featured in a one hour special on CNN.
CNN producer Sheila Steffen, visited the Toledo area in late March to record the story. She and her crew visited the First Solar facility in Perrysburg as well as Xunlight Corporation on Nebraska Avenue in Toledo. She also interviewed Mayor Carty Finkbeiner about Toledo and Northwest Ohio’s transition from a manufacturing center to a center for the research, development, and manufacturing of alternative energy components.
Click here to view the CNN Story about Toledo
Several prestigious national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and The New York Times, have also written stories recently, in which Toledo has been discussed as the leader in alternative energy.
You can view these articles below.
"Toledo Finds the Energy To Reinvent Itself", The Wall Street Journal
December, 2007
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"The Power of Sun", Newsweek
October, 2007
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"Dumb As We Wanna Be", The New York Times
April, 2008
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