SolarCity teams with San Jose to initiate ambitious energy plan SolarCity, a leading provider of solar energy services, is teaming with the city of San Jose, California, to embark on an ambitious solar energy project. Together, the duo will work to install nearly 2.5 me......[More]

Sometimes it‘s 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 genera......[More]

XINYU CITY, China and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") LDK -2.62% , a leading vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products, today announced that Mr. Yonggang Shao, an Executive Director and ......[More]

A decision Friday by the V.I. Public Services Commission gave the green light to the territory""s new solar energy project. In a unanimous vote, the commission approved six power purchase agreements between the V.I. Water and Power Authority and three solar companies --......[More]

According to SEMI, there is prolonged challenging environment for PV equipment suppliers. Worldwide Solar Photovoltaic manufacturing equipment billings declined for the third quarter in a row, falling another 20 percent for the quarter and 60 percent from the same quart......[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 att......[More]