The solar industry shakeout continues as rock-bottom solar panel prices have forced a difficult decision at yet another high-tech California solar firm. SolFocus, a San Jose-based manufacturer of concentrating photovoltaic modules, has announced its looking for a company to bu...... [More]

THEY accont for less than 4 per cent of our electricity generation now, but solar and wind could be cheaper than coal by 2030, according to the Climate Commission.Chief commissioner Professor Tim Flannery said rooftop solar panels may already be cheaper than conventional elect...... [More]

Expectations of market conditions improving in 2013 are likly to result in polysilicon prices within the solar industry rebounding slightly, according to the latest analysis from market research firm IHS.However, prices for 9N solar polysilicon fell by over 9% in October, acco...... [More]

Wow, that was some ugly action in the solar sector on Wednesday.Take a look at this list, which I snipped from Google Finance:Thats the cream of the solar crop. Every one of them down at least 2.5%, and most down more than 5%.I dont think this is really too complicated: The sola...... [More]

The Solar Dawn Consortium in Australia has cancelled plans to develop its beleaguered A$1.2 billion (US$1.3 billion) Western Downs facility, it has been announced.The Solar Dawn project, which involved the construction of a 250MW hybrid solar thermal and gas plant near Chinchi...... [More]

Solar Green Technology (SGT), an Italy-based specialist in the design, installation and construction of PV plants, has designed and built 7.8MW worth of PV projects in Italy.The PV arrays are part of a larger project called Century which consists of industrial rooftop PV array...... [More]