Slideshow: Google Plants Solar Trees

The search giant joins a growing trend by landscaping its headquarters' parking lots with pole-mounted panels that provide shade and generate clean power in one fell swoop. By Marty Graham.
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A grove of solar trees works hard at Kyocera's San Diego division.

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Hybrids will get a charge out of the Energy Innovations carport at a Vacaville, California, park-and-ride lot with plug-in chargers.
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The installation of more than 9,000 solar power panels begins at Google's Mountain View, California, campus, seen here from the air.