Solar News Archive

04-17-2013 Canadian Province at the Forefront of Solar

04-02-2013 Is the Solar Industry in Germany Losing Its Shine?

03-22-2013 Solar Boom in U.S. Continues

03-19-2013 Is the Sun Going Down on Suntech?

02-28-2013 Class Action against Sunrun in California: Unhappy Customer or Overselling?

02-07-2013 Trouble in Hawaii's Solar Paradise

01-27-2013 Obama Second Inauguration May Galvanize Solar Energy Industry

01-06-2013 All Solar Politics is Local

12-13-2012 Study Shows Way to Power Grid with Solar and Renewables

12-05-2012 US Solar Manufacturers Taking Strides in China

11-29-2012 SolarCity and NC Solar Strive to be Successful Cleantech IPOs

11-21-2012 Hurricane Sandy and Getting Off the Grid

11-16-2012 Voting for Solar: What President Obama's Re-election Means for the Solar Industry

11-02-2012 Solar Panel Manufacturer Faces Criminal Investigation for Fraud

10-25-2012 Solar Panel Manufacturers: A Vanishing Breed?

10-17-2012 Energy Zones Mark New Stride Toward Greater Utilization of Solar Energy

10-11-2012 Massive Closure of Coal Plants Marks an Opportunity for the Solar Power Industry

10-07-2012 The Solar War: U.S. v. China Tariff Decision Nears

09-25-2012 Solar Manufacturer SoloPower Slated to Receive $197 Million DOE Loan: Trailblazer or Solyndra?

09-16-2012 The Future of Solar: The View from Solar Power International

09-11-2012 Evolution of Democratic Party Platform on Renewable Energy

09-09-2012 Solar Manufacturing Down, Solar Installations Way Up

08-27-2012 Chinese Solar Panels Hit the Skids: Why Isn't SolarWorld Celebrating?

08-09-2012 U.S. Department of Defense One Step Closer to Going Solar

08-07-2012 Net Metering Without a Roof in California: Community-Based Renewable Energy Self-Generation Program

08-02-2012 Utility in New Jersey Responds to New Solar Law with Massive Proposal

07-30-2012 Grid-Scale Solar Storage Booming

07-26-2012 Large Companies Installing Huge Number of Solar Panels on their Roofs

07-25-2012 New Jersey: Solar Saved from its Own Success

07-20-2012 Solar Trade Conflict with China Escalates

07-13-2012 Dark Days or Bright Future for Solar Industry?

07-10-2012 Solar Power Generation Growing Rapidly

07-05-2012 Chinese Solar Energy Target Quadruples

07-02-2012 Another U.S. Solar Manufacturer Bites the Dust - Abound Solar to File for Bankruptcy

06-26-2012 Consumer Awareness is the Greatest Challenge to Solar Energy

06-25-2012 Japanese Feed-in Tariffs Spur Solar Energy Installations

06-15-2012 U.S. Solar Industry Continues to Surge

06-14-2012 Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: The Future of Solar Power?

06-04-2012 Consolidation in the Solar Industry Expected to Continue

06-01-2012 Record Solar Power Production in Germany

05-17-2012 Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels-Big Time

05-16-2012 Another Planned IPO in the Solar Industry: SolarCity Plans to Go Public

04-27-2012 First and Last Solar: Can It Adapt Quickly Enough

04-12-2012 BrightSource Not Looking Bright: Another Attempt to Go Public Fails

04-09-2012 Maryland Makes Solar Attractive Again

03-28-2012 US Slaps Tariffs on Solar Panels from China

03-17-2012 Consolidation, Bankruptcy, Take-Overs: Solar Industry Upheaval Continues

02-27-2012 Ignoble End to Storied BP Solar

02-20-2012 Solar Panel Market Volatile: Suntech Discusses Effects of Dumping Case

02-14-2012 Solar Financing: A Second Life for PACE?

01-25-2012 Obama Not Walking Away from Solar Energy

01-20-2012 Solar Energy in Germany: Sinkhole or Vision of the Future

01-10-2012 Solar Makes it Easier to Read...on a Kindle

01-05-2012 The Economics of Solar Energy: Is Fracking Killing Renewable Energy?

12-29-2011 Tick Tock, the Clock Runs Out on the 1603 Cash Grant

12-09-2011 Solar Lights and Gifts Illuminate the Holidays

12-05-2011 Round 1 in U.S.-China Trade War: Trade Panel Says China Imports May Hurt U.S. Solar Industry

12-02-2011 Chalk One Up for the Utility Companies Against Solar Energy

11-28-2011 U.S.-China Solar Trade War Escalates: China Retaliates With its Own Investigation

11-21-2011 Proposed Cuts in German Solar Incentives Would Harm Solar Industry

11-14-2011 U.S. Solar Energy Industry: A Community Divided on the China-U.S. Solar Trade Dispute

11-10-2011 Proposed Utility Charges Could Damage Solar Energy Industry

11-02-2011 Solar Incentives: Going, Going, Gone

10-31-2011 U.S. Solar Companies' Complaint Driven by Envy, China Says

10-26-2011 Solar Manufacturers Cut Output as Solar Panel Oversupply Continues

10-20-2011 The Solar Trade Wars Begin: US vs. China

10-19-2011 Dow Solar Shingles Hit the Market

10-13-2011 Solyndra Spectacle Will Continue without CEO Harrison

10-13-2011 Solar Energy Product Mimics Photosynthesis to Produce Fuel

10-12-2011 Schools Nationwide Turn to Solar Energy

10-03-2011 Solar Decathlon 2011 Crowns University of Maryland Solar Champion

09-23-2011 There Are Limits to Cheap Solar Manufacturing in China

09-20-2011 Cost to Install a Solar Panel System on Your Home is Dropping, and May Continue to Drop

09-19-2011 Accelerated Growth in New Jersey and Pennsylvania Solar Markets Causes SRECs to Plunge

09-14-2011 Despite Recent Bankruptcies, U.S. Solar Manufacturing Not Dead

09-08-2011 Big Solar News: FBI Searches Solyndra's Offices

09-07-2011 Major Solar Manufacturer SolarWorld Shuts Down California Solar Module Factory, Cuts Workforce in Germany

09-07-2011 Australia May Be First to Reach Grid Parity for Solar PV

09-01-2011 Solyndra Rounds Out the List of Solar Companies Filing for Bankruptcy

08-31-2011 Solar Soccer Stadium in Brazil: World Cup Going Solar

08-29-2011 Renewed Demand for Solar Curbs Year-Long Price Pains

08-17-2011 The View on the Residential Solar Market in the US from the UK

08-15-2011 Evergreen Bites the Dust

08-08-2011 Update: Los Angeles to Reboot Solar Incentive Program

08-04-2011 Study Confirms that Solar Energy Systems are a Sound Investment for your Home

08-04-2011 Department of Energy SUNPATH Program: Is $50 Million Enough to Invigorate Solar Manufacturing in the US

08-03-2011 China Getting FIT for Summer

07-29-2011 Solar Panels Cool Your Home: New Study Reveals Added Benefits of Solar Panels

07-28-2011 BP Solar to Close Up Shop in Maryland

07-26-2011 New Life for PACE: Legislation Presented for Solar Financing Program

07-25-2011 National Football League Going Solar

07-22-2011 Hybrid Solar Collector Makes a Big Splash

07-10-2011 Solar Industry Reeling in Australia: Incentives Suspended and Installations Subpar

06-27-2011 Good News for Solar Energy in DC

06-22-2011 Department of Energy Putting Some Skin into Solar Energy

06-14-2011 Israel Belatedly Gets on the Solar Bandwagon

06-09-2011 US Reaches for the Sun with New Legislation: Ten Million Solar Roofs by 2020

06-08-2011 China Ups the Ante on Solar Power

06-02-2011 Disasters Steer Japan to Embrace Solar Energy

06-01-2011 Vermont Enacts Speedy Solar Registration Program

05-26-2011 New Solar Fill-Up Station Unveiled

05-19-2011 New Jersey Continues to Lead in Solar Power

05-18-2011 Solar Incentives Dealt a Heavy Blow in Australia

05-11-2011 Los Angeles Rebate Program: Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200

04-22-2011 SRECs Take a Tumble in Washington DC

04-14-2011 California Requires 33 Percent Renewable Energy Standard--Again

04-06-2011 Cost of Solar Energy Continues to Drop-Closing in on Coal

03-25-2011 Builder Offers Solar Panels as Standard Feature on New Homes

03-22-2011 Explosive Growth in Solar Industry in 2010

03-15-2011 Japan Nuclear Woes Boost Solar Energy Industry

03-09-2011 Will SunShot Be Shot in the Arm for Solar Industry?: DOE Grid Parity Initiative

03-02-2011 Solar Decathlon Not Kicked Out of Washington After All

02-28-2011 Solar Incentives Waning?: An Unwelcome Surprise in Colorado

02-08-2011 Solar Powered Roads: How to Outsmart the Storm

02-05-2011 Obama Highlights Solar and Other 'Clean' Energy in State of the Union

02-05-2011 The Land Battles Heat Up Over Solar Farms: The Sierra Club Sues

02-05-2011 Will 2011 Be Another Solar Boom Year?

02-05-2011 Is Evergreen Solar Dying?

01-10-2011 Attempt to Assassinate Congresswoman and Solar Energy Champion Gabrielle Giffords Fails

01-05-2011 Solar Turns Its Eyes on Ohio: Roofs and RVs

12-30-2010 Solar Energy is Sexy

12-23-2010 FIT to be Tied in California: The Renewable Auction Mechanism

12-17-2010 Congress Tosses Lifeline to Solar: Tax Grant Program Extended

12-09-2010 Solar Energy Gaining Toehold--Just as Congress Pulls the Plug

12-06-2010 Germany Continues Leadership in Solar Energy

12-01-2010 Ontario: A Province with a Clean Energy Vision or Spendthrift?

11-24-2010 Flying Like a Solar Eagle: Football Team Going Off Grid

11-17-2010 Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Modules Duke it Out--But Thin Film is Already on the Mat

11-11-2010 International Energy Agency: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Endanger Solar Energy

11-10-2010 US and India: Partners for Solar Energy

11-08-2010 Threat to Solar Power: Declining Cost of Fossil Fuels

11-04-2010 Largest Solar Thermal Plant Breaks Ground Just in the Nick of Time

11-03-2010 Not So Sunny for US Panel Maker Solyndra

11-01-2010 The Solar Energy Industry and the Elections

10-29-2010 Net Metering Battle Heats Up in Maryland

10-25-2010 Forecasts for Solar Energy Look Rosy

10-22-2010 Support for Solar Energy Grows-Along with Residential Solar Installations

10-15-2010 Micro Inverters Multiplying Like Maggots

10-08-2010 New Nanoscale Technology to Make Silicon Solar Cells Passe?

10-06-2010 Sun Will Shine Again on the White House: Solar Panels Coming to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

10-06-2010 A Solar Way of Life in Ontario, Canada: Largest Solar Farm in North America Opens

10-01-2010 Solar Homes Open Their Doors throughout the Country

09-29-2010 Solar Leasing Company Versus PACE: Solar Industry Shooting Itself in the Foot?

09-24-2010 White House Still Waiting for the Moment to Go Solar

09-23-2010 China Major Threat to US Alternative Energy Industry Says the United Steelworkers Union

08-19-2010 Illinois Governor Signs Solar Energy Legislation

08-06-2010 Feed-In Tariffs Gaining Steam in California

08-04-2010 Clean Energy Jobs Drifting Overseas

08-02-2010 Small in Size, Delaware Tries to Be a Leader in Solar Energy

07-28-2010 Hollywood Movie Sets Go Solar

07-23-2010 The Energy Bill is Dead...Long Live Ten Million Solar Roofs!

07-20-2010 Going Solar in Virginia Isn't All That Easy

07-16-2010 Proposed National Renewable Energy Standard Introduced in the Senate

07-15-2010 National Net Metering Bill Introduced in the House

07-14-2010 PACE Will Not Go Down Without a Fight

07-13-2010 Smart Meters Rejected in Maryland

07-09-2010 Germany Reduces Feed-in Tariffs While Report Trumpets Benefits of Feed-In Tariffs in US

07-08-2010 Solar Plane Soars Like An Eagle--Both Day and Night

07-07-2010 Obama Promises Money for Solar

07-01-2010 PACE Program Challenges Grow

07-01-2010 Saharan Desert to Power Europe in Five Years

06-30-2010 An Entire School District in Pennsylvania Going Solar

06-29-2010 An Upset at the Solar Decathlon Europe: Virginia Tech Takes the Honors

06-22-2010 Solar Subsidies in Dangerous Waters in Europe: The Woes of Spain and Germany

06-17-2010 Pennsylvania Wants to Bolster Its Solar Credentials

06-15-2010 Solar Soccer in Africa

06-10-2010 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Gang Up on PACE

06-09-2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster Spurs Louisiana Lawmakers to Embrace Renewable Energy

06-07-2010 Apple Sees a Future in Solar Electronics

06-04-2010 Will the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Spur Support for the Energy Bill: Obama Hopes So

06-01-2010 In North Carolina, Solar Means Jobs

05-19-2010 New Jersey: Solar Leader or Solar Loser?

05-13-2010 Will the Deepwater Horizon Acccident Help or Hinder Solar?

05-10-2010 Connecticut Takes the Solar Initiative

05-06-2010 Zoning Can Turn Your Solar Electricity Off

05-03-2010 Is Your Solar Installer Certified?: New UL Certification

04-27-2010 Public Opinion Polls Show Strong Support for Solar Energy

04-20-2010 Home Solar Panels Double in 2009

04-14-2010 Renewable Portfolio Standards and Solar Carve-Outs: Focus on Maryland

04-08-2010 BP Solar Closing Maryland Solar Panel Manufacturing Plant

04-06-2010 Maryland Tries to Step Up the Pace for Solar

04-06-2010 Congress Active in Promoting Community Solar Energy

03-24-2010 Rating Solar Panels: For Quality and Environmental Impact

03-18-2010 Large Solar Power Plants in the US and Abroad

03-16-2010 Solar Energy Expands Its Reach in Developing World

03-09-2010 Keeping Pace with Renewable Energy Standards: Colorado Climbs the Mountain

02-26-2010 PACE Coming to the Nation's Capital

02-24-2010 Mojave Desert Solar Power Complex Receives Large Federal Loan Guarantee

02-23-2010 Net Metering Gets a Boost in California

02-16-2010 Ten Million Solar Roofs Initiative

02-09-2010 US Partnership for Renewable Energy Unlocks Capital for Solar Energy Projects

02-08-2010 Chinese Solar Panel Manufacturer Opening Arizona Factory

02-01-2010 Solar Industry Sees Bright Future in New York State

01-27-2010 US Funding New Solar Energy Technologies

01-22-2010 Maryland Trying to Become Leader in Solar

01-15-2010 France Wants Solar-But Keep It Beautiful S’il Vous Plaît

01-05-2010 Solar Panels: On Our Roofs or In Our Fields?

12-10-2009 Whither Thin Film: Is Thin Film Wilting on the Bud?

12-09-2009 Contaminated Brownfield Sites and Solar Energy: A Bright Idea

12-02-2009 Solar Calculus is Changing: Massachusetts Allows You to Sell Excess Back to the Utility

11-02-2009 Solution for Solar Energy: More Effective Lobbying

10-23-2009 Likelihood of Energy Bill Passage Before End of Year: None to Slim

10-21-2009 Biden Does Berkeley: Financing Your Solar Array

10-14-2009 Feed -In Tariffs California Style

10-06-2009 Dow Chemical Wants to Become the 800 Pound Gorilla in the BIPV Market

10-02-2009 Batten Down the Hatches: Solar Panel Thefts

09-29-2009 Will Obama Go to Copenhagen Empty Handed?

09-21-2009 Solar Cooperatives: Going Solar One Neighborhood at a Time

09-16-2009 California Executive Order Mandates 33% by 2020: Is it Legal?

09-10-2009 Million Solar Roofs from California to India

09-04-2009 Chinese Garnering Market Share Through Dumping?

07-30-2009 Efficiency Standards in Building Codes: Does San Francisco Show What the Future Holds

07-29-2009 Lower Silicon Prices...Again

07-23-2009 Creative Financing Solutions Fuel Solar Energy

07-21-2009 The Invasion of the Feed In Tariffs

07-17-2009 Solar Energy Market Poised for Significant Growth

07-14-2009 Surplus of Silicon Reduces PV Prices

07-13-2009 Solar Land Rush

07-09-2009 First Solar Providing Industry Drive

07-08-2009 Solar Looking for a Solar Carve-Out

06-29-2009 Incentives Continue for Renewables

06-11-2009 Building the Smart Grid

06-09-2009 The Sun Doesn't Shine Bright In Texas

06-08-2009 The Sunshine State Not Living Up To Its Name

06-05-2009 Thin Film: Solar Energy's New Frontier

06-03-2009 Obama's Energy Pop

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