solar panels
Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flood of local Chinese investment in the industry.
The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills.
Could it be that the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas is the same country that spends more on green technology than any other country?
The first solar panels ever installed, were photo-voltaic solar panels mounted on military satellites and blasted into space from Cape Kennedy, Florida during the 'Space Race' of the 1960's.
In what is being described as symptomatic of the “cutthroat” world of solar energy, San Jose-based SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA) sued SolarCity on Monday, Feb. 13, for reportedly accepting what it knew were stolen documents.
Arista Power (Nasdaq: ASPW), a Rochester, N.Y.-based producer of custom sustainable energy generation, management and distribution systems, is making waves in the industry, thanks to landing several large deals spanning the corporate sector and government.
Stirling Energy Systems Inc., founded in 1996, succumbed last week to a variety of pressures mounting industry-wide, beginning with a price war led by low-cost Chinese solar photovoltaics and topping out with a list of factors that led to bankruptcy filings for the once thriving solar thermal innovator.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, recently published extensive data on the effect of cloud cover on solar power installations.
Solar manufacturer and developer SunPower Corp.'s (NASDAQ: SPWRA) stocks were up 5 percent in early morning trading Monday after the company announced that France's Akuo Energy had agreed to purchase 75,000 of its solar panels.
The North American division of Volvo Trucks (Stockholm: VOLV-B.ST) has reached a milestone which saw the company reduce energy consumption at its Virginia plant by 30% in response to a challenge issued by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2009.
