For the first time ever, residential rooftop solar installations outpaced non-residential solar in…

'Plonkable' CSP could change future energy consumption

If you know what concentrated solar power plants are at all, you’re probably picturing a massive falice in the…

After a year’s hiatus, the fight between Arizona’s biggest utility company and the state’s solar industry is in…

New England Solar Home

While Massachusetts boasts one of the strongest solar industries in the country – thanks in large part to good…

Go Solar California

The California Public Utilities Commission received dozens of proposals from the state’s publicly-traded utility…

A new California regulation that allows companies to package energy from small producers and sell it on the…

Alabama Power

While you might be able to count 500 megawatts of solar energy generation on residential rooftops…

New York Solarize

New York’s new community net metering rules mean solar energy, along with the savings and environmental advantages…

When California legislators vote to increase the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard to 50 percent by 2030, will rooftop solar count toward the total?

When California legislators vote to increase the…

Nevada solar advocates are outraged at the state’s largest utility’s seemingly deceptive tactic to trick the…

Solar energy is the perfect solution to providing low-cost power to the poorest people and to reducing greenhouse…

US generating more solar than we thought

It turns out there is a whole lot more solar energy being generated in the United States than official reports…

Solar Impulse 2 proving power of solar energy

Flying across the Pacific Ocean isn’t such a big a deal these days. It doesn’t seem like there are many records to…

Austrailan Solar Installer

Westar Energy in Kansas last week joined a long list of US…

Rooftop Solar

Residential rooftop solar is making more and more financial sense to homeowners across the country, which is…

Utility-scale solar power

While MIT’s recent 332-page report on The Future of Solar is making headlines for its bullish outlook on…

Georgia Wants Third Party Sun

After the Georgia legislature unanimously passed a bill Friday to allow third-party financing for rooftop solar…

Solar Home

I recently went home shopping with some friends in Southern California. Aside from the striking price tags on the…

In his State of the Union Speech, President Barack Obama noted that Americans are flipping the switch on as much…

Solarize Solar

Investment in rooftop solar along the East Coast is soaring, in part, because of popular solarize programs.

Large Cities Going Sustainable

Going 100 percent renewable sounds like something that…

Solar incorporates beautifully into stained glass art

Solar panels are beautiful in their own way, but when a building is architecturally significant, it doesn’t work…

solar plus storage is skyrocketing

Those working in the solar industry believe solar plus storage is our energy future and the market trends suggest…

Utilities must evolve to survive with solar

Telephone companies, cable companies, video rental services, taxi cab drivers, hotel operators, auto manufacturers…

West facing solar panels

The west side is the best side of the roof for solar panels, according to new data analysis from…