U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on Tuesday that the State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in March 2008.
Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation, manufacturer of polycrystalline silicon, will invest up to $1 billion over the next four years to increase by 90 percent its total annual output of polycrystalline silicon at its Hemlock, Michigan, facility.
