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Solar Power in the USA

President-elect Trump's new cabinet includes climate-change deniers. Environmentalists hope individual US states will counter that, but in Arizona solar power has met hurdles.

Solar power is a growing global phenomenon but in Arizona, one of the sunniest US states, solar power hasn't taken off. The ±«Óãtv's economics correspondent Andrew Walker explains why from the state capital Phoenix. Also, our regular US commentator James Srodes reports on the biggest-ever US oil find and how it might help the presidency of Donald Trump. And we speak to Ole Harms, chief executive of Moia, Volkswagen's new digital business division, about a future of driverless cars.

(Photo: Solar panels being installed in Arizona, Credit: Getty Images)

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