Independent board members have approved Tesla""s bid to acquire SolarCity in an all-stock transition worth $2.6 billion. By combining the two companies, Tesla expects to realize cost efficiencies of $150 million in the first year after closing the deal. Those savings wi......[More]

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has spent years testing how “smart” solar inverters behind-the-meter batteries can be turned into distribution grid assets. Now it’s getting ready to roll out these technologies in actual customers’ homes tapping the existing fl......[More]

Thouss of German companies are set to keep their exemptions from payment of green power fees in a shakeup of the nation’s financial support for renewable energy, lawmakers in Berlin said. Germany is introducing auctions of wind, solar biomass power from 2017. Since the ......[More]

First Solar was trying to compete with high-efficiency silicon when it acquired early-stage startup TetraSun in April 2013 in the cadmium-telluride (CdTe) vendor""s first foray into solar silicon. It was a hedge against its own CdTe material. Well, according to the comp......[More]

Tesla Motors Inc.’s bid to buy the biggest U.S. rooftop solar installer has little to do with selling cars. Rather, it’s about solving two of the biggest problems sting in the way of the next solar boom. perhaps a good deal more. When Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk c......[More]

Chile leads the way in renewables in Latin America. But growth may slow as the transmission network remains constricted, spot prices rise the country’s mining sector slumps. Chile has long been the leader of Latin America""s renewable energy market. But growth is now th......[More]