As concerns about climate change and energy security escalate, as government incentives for harnessing solar energy expand, and as these costs decline while those of fossil fuels rise the harnessing of solar energy is expanding …

The scientific and political stage for the success of solar energy is set. Markets are huge. Management of growth is the key. Once demonstration plants run according to plans and expectations, just two years should …

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 …

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 …

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Normally conventional silicon solar panels, are bulky and rigid, but a startup in Toledo, Ohio, called Xunlight, has developed a way to make solar panels more …

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 …

A Florida developer unveiled plans today to build the nation’s first solar-powered city. The ambitious plan announced on Thursday is for a 19,500-home city with energy-efficient buildings that will be “the first city on earth …

Renting people’s roofs to deploy solar panels could be a safe source of income for Pension funds, under renewable feed-in tariffs set to come into force in April 2010 in the U.K. Jeremy Leggett, the …

A 30-megawatt solar farm in New Mexico, will be built by First Solar (FSLR) which has entered into a contract with the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Authority.
The New Mexico contract is worth around $98 million …