Sometimes its just a couple of cents that decide the success or failure of a technology. As long as solar power, for instance, is still more expensive than energy extracted from fossil fuels, photovoltaics will not be competitive on the broad open market. Power generation from...... [More]

The number of low-interest rate loans for solar pv power generation and other green energy projects provided by Japan Finance Corp. grew 5.6-fold from the previous year to 1,349 in fiscal 2011, the state-owned loan corporation said Wednesday.The surge can mostly be attributed ...... [More]

About 40 percent of the solar energy reaching Earths surface lies in the near-infrared region of the spectrum energy that conventional silicon-based solar cells are unable to harness. But a new kind of all-carbon solar cell developed by MIT researchers could tap into that unu...... [More]

Despite the performance of solar stocks over the past two years, the fundamental cost of installing solar PV power continues to fall rapidly. Long term, this is great for the industry and should drive sales and eventually (surviving) solar stocks higher in the future.The question...... [More]

NEW YORK (AP) Solar PV equipment manufacturers will struggle for the rest of the year with a sustained dro in panel prices, a Goldman Sachs analyst said Tuesday.Prices have tumbled for the past few years as Chinese manufacturers flooded the market with cheap solar systems. Analy...... [More]