The Japanese Tokai University team built the solar powered car that won the Global Green Challenge on Wednesday after averaging speeds of more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour in a four-day race through …

The new age of green electricity is beginning to take shape in Germany under the name E-Energy. The plan is a vision to create a giant renewable energy grid using inputs as diverse as huge …

Spain is a powerhouse for solar energy production in Europe because it has excellent sun resources and because it has a feed-in tariff for renewable energy production, as does Germany. With a feed-in tariff, project …

The Chinese government has planned massive solar projects during the last six months far outstripping the US in planned capacity.
In January 2009, the Qinghai province Haixi region rolled out the world’s first 1GW solar farm …

I admit it, I have dropped the ball lately as far as updating this site and I would not be surprised if some of you are never going to come back.
I apologise, but I have …

Solar cell companies in China recently submitted a scheme to the Ministry of Science and Technology to cut the cost of solar power generation to $0.146 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2012. This is three years …

Image above is of the largest photovoltaic solar power plant in the United States at Nellis Air Force Base producing 15 megawatts of power.

On Friday, two Chinese companies announced plans to build a solar power …

Scientists at the Ohio State Institute for Materials Research have just announced that they have developed a new hyper-efficient solar material that is able to capture light from every spectrum of the rainbow. Whereas most …

Mike has written a guide to building your own solar panel. Mike Davis, in his own words “likes to build things”. This post is but a very small summary of Mike’s page and his detailed …

New technology uses cheaper materials instead of expensive silicon crystals. These new solar cells are 1/1oth of the cost of traditional silicon cell based solar panels.