Two high-profile Senate Democrats introduced a proposal Tuesday that if passed would set domestic requirements on solar installations looking to qualify for the 30 percent Investment Tax Credit.

Sovello has joined a growing roster of solar companies that have filed for bankruptcy over the past year, the German company said Monday. The announcement came after another German solar manufacturer, Soltecture, filed for bankruptcy last Wednesday.

I read a bucket of press releases about solar companies every week, and if I’m to literally believe their words, then there are thousands of “leading” solar manufacturers and services in the world. In fact, the word “leading,” “leader,” etc has become so common and overused in press releases that it&rsquo

Emerging Australian company CBD Energy has an agreement in place to acquire California-based Westinghouse Solar in an all-stock deal that will give the company better access to the growing American solar market.

First Solar, which recently announced it was shuttering its Germany facility, idling lines in Malaysia and laying off 30 percent of its global workforce, detailed some of the struggles facing the company with its quarterly report.

It came much more quickly than the three years it took the Ferdinand Magellan expedition, but not nearly as fast as the 80 days it took Jules Verne’s fictitious Phileas Fogg.

China, the target of criticism and legal action from those who contend it unfairly subsidizes its export market, is now cutting support for some of its own solar generation.

In the first article in this series, we discussed the many factors that impact energy output from solar arrays and why it’s important to improve the insight into array performance if lifetime energy yield is to match expectations.

When California funded the CSI Solar Thermal program in 2010, part of the funding included a carve-out for marketing the program and educating the public about solar hot water’s benefits to consumers and businesses.
That public awareness program finally launched on Earth Day. The first step was a media release that outlines the CSI Thermal

In the previous article in this series, we discussed the many factors that impact energy output from solar arrays and why it’s important to improve the insight into array performance if lifetime energy yield is to match expectations.