If we learned anything from last week, it’s that the fire under the solar industry continues to heat up—sometimes literally.

Yup, one fire in Nevada raged at Sempra Generation’s Eldorado Energy Station near Boulder City, Nev., but it damaged the gas generator at the site and had no effect on the solar facility nearby. And PV power is sticking with MBK Tape Solutions, which recently installed a 10 kilowatt (kW) PV array on its Los Angeles rooftop.

Last week also saw the winner of a new presidential race! Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed began outfitting his presidential mansion with a 11.5 kW solar array. And President Obama’s administration decided it was time—after all—to put PV panels back on the White House roof, but he’ll no longer be the first to do so.

Last week the world’s largest PV power plant, the Enbridge 80 megawatt PV plant in Ontario, Canada, officially opened. And what is likely the world’s largest grassroots solar event, the National Solar Homes Tour, was held last week. While Clean Energy Authority was able to cover all that, we missed some solar news. Among the things we missed were:

1. Depending on your favorite team, you may rue hearing this, but the New York Jets are No. 1 at the moment—well, in terms of PV. They’ve installed a 3,000 panel PV array at their training facility in Florham Park, N.J. However, as in all professional sports, competition is fierce, even now, the Seattle Seahawks are looking to upend the Jets with their own PV installation.

2. Fast on the heels of its final approval from the Bureau of Land Management for the Imperial Valley Solar Project in California, Tessera Solar said it has developed a second proposal for a solar concentrator-based installation in Saguache, Colo. Its previous proposal for a 200 megawatt system was turned down by local residents. The revised, proposed 145 megawatt system would be the largest single installation proposed in the United States, outside of California.

3. In all, 848 kW of United Solar PV panels are giving a makeover to the rooftop of Sisley’s in Paris. United Solar’s Uni-Solar PV materials were chosen because they can be installed directly on the roof, without adding much additional weight to a roof. And the amorphous silicon in the panels are better at collecting the diffuse light that graces “The City of Light” than are other forms of PV, despite the panels being less efficient overall.

4. This is one of those mixed-bag pieces of news. California’s PG&E utility is further reducing its rebate to consumers that install PV there. While that’s great for the PV industry—because it means that so many people have installed solar, that rebate level was reached—It also means that consumers who now want to install solar on their homes will get less money from the utility for doing so.