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Solar Frontier Opens Largest Thin-film Plant in the World

by Robert Crowe, Contributor | April 27, 2011 | Post Your Comment
One of the world's largest solar module factories, perched atop the bucolic foothills of West Japan's bamboo and pine-covered mountains, began operating in February. Full Article
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Creating Investor Certainty in Large-Scale Solar

by Stephen Lacey, Editor | April 26, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Helped by government loan guarantees and growing investor confidence in the technologies, large-scale solar PV and CSP developers have made some headway in recent weeks. But there are plenty of headwinds too. Full Article
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BrightSource Guns for a $250M IPO

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | April 25, 2011 | Post Your Comment
The solar industry hasn't had a blockbuster initial public offering for a while, underscoring the investors' confidence in the long term prospect of solar. Could BrightSource Energy help change that? The company recently filed to ... Full Article
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Our Final Podcast. For Now.

by RenewableEnergyWorld.com Editors | April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments
We're sorry to announce that after five years of production, our Inside Renewable Energy podcast series will be coming to a close after this week's episode. Full Article
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What's Keeping Solar Hot Water From Going Main Stream? Some Thoughts and Solutions from Solar Fred

by Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza | April 27, 2011 | 3 Comments
I wish I had the exact answer to this blog post's question, but I can only make some educated observations and solutions. Most research regarding consumer attitudes toward solar is generally PV related, rather than solar hot wat... Full Article
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Intel Tiptoes into Solar

by Dana Blankenhorn | April 27, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Intel wants to get into solar, but it doesn't want to take any risks. So it's doing the next best thing, becoming a solar consultant. That's the heart of Intel's recent agreement with MiaSole, which makes thin-film CIGS cells. W... Full Article
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Myths about Large-scale Solar Threaten Public Lands

by Janine Blaeloch, Solar Done Right | April 26, 2011 | 4 Comments
The Interior Department and Department of Energy are currently engaged in a large-scale plan for solar development that proposes to open up 21.5 million acres of public land to permit applications by industrial-scale solar develop... Full Article
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A Real Transparent Solar Cell from MIT

by Dana Blankenhorn | April 26, 2011 | 9 Comments
When a penny stock outfit working with a University of South Florida professor announced it had a clear solar window last year – a solar cell you could spray onto a backing that would provide power but still let you use the ... Full Article
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Cities Take a Shine to Solar

by Eric Paul | April 27, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Hardly a week goes by without hearing about another city installing solar or removing barriers to solar installation. In the past week alone, the City of Round Rock, Texas installed a 100 kW carport system; Tucson, Arizona ... Full Article
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Solar Lifts California Home Sales Prices

by Charles W. Thurston, Contributor | April 25, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Homeowners in California who invest in photovoltaic systems are netting up to 6.4 percent more in resale value for their homes than for similar homes sold without solar systems, according to a new study by Lawrence Berkeley Nation... Full Article
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Abound Solar Wants Italian Sun

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | May 2, 2011 | Post Your Comment
At the Solarexpo in Verona, Italy, this week, a big question on everyone's mind will no doubt be the fate of the feed-in tariff. The Italian government has wrestled over how to shrink it in order to control the solar market growth... Full Article
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Ontario's 'Buy Local' Energy Program Growing Rapidly

by John Farrell | May 2, 2011 | Post Your Comment
In January, we released a report – Maximizing Jobs From Clean Energy: Ontario’s ‘Buy Local’ Policy – highlighting the impressive job forecast (43,000 jobs) from Ontario's CLEAN Contract (a.k.a. feed-... Full Article

How Much Is Your Senator or Representative $upported By Oil and Coal? Here's a Way to Find Out.

by Tor 'Solar Fred' Valenza | May 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
The ending oil subsidy debate has begun in Congress. The debate is framed not around the environment or the fact that oil companies have received these subsidies for 100 years, but around the budget deficit and the mertis of givin... Full Article

Exelon, Constellation Energy Announce Merger

by Guest User | April 29, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Illinois-based Exelon has announced it will buy power generator Constellation Energy in a $7.9 billion stock-swap deal. Full Article

Spinning Google Hope as Failure

by Dana Blankenhorn | April 29, 2011 | 11 Comments
The cupidity of mainstream reporting never ceases to amaze me. Most especially damning is their ritual acceptance of the oil industry's frame, which is they are the only solution, and that renewable energy is a pipe dream, becaus... Full Article

Grid Parity for Solar PV with Balance of System Cost Reductions

by John Farrell | April 29, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Cutting non-module solar PV costs with best design practices could make solar PV cost less than grid electricity for more than 25 percent of Americans. Half of the installed cost of a solar PV array is the solar module, but... Full Article

Marketing Residential Solar: How do We Make Progress?

by Pamela Cargill | April 29, 2011 | 2 Comments
With a lot of energy spent on technical issues in the solar industry, few analysts are discussing driving the industry's adoption through sales and marketing savvy. The road ahead for the growth of solar is complex. How can we mak... Full Article

The Costs of Inaction

by James M. Ludes and Lindsey Ross, American Security Project | April 29, 2011 | 5 Comments
Despite what has been said in recent Congressional hearings and debates; despite the House vote to block the Environmental Protection Agency's climate regulations; and, despite what a handful of vocal skeptics are saying, climate ... Full Article

Nanosolar's 3 Big Contracts and Plans to Deliver Them

by Ucilia Wang, Contributor | April 28, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Nanosolar has been trying hard over the past year to repair its public image as a startup that raised a huge amount of money but had little to show for. It hired a new CEO, semiconductor industry veteran Geoff Tate, early last yea... Full Article

Addressing Solar's Biggest Challenge

by Dana Blankenhorn | April 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
What is solar technology's biggest challenge today? That's easy. Scaling. Long before 1971, before the first calculator or Speak 'n Spell rolled off an assembly line, early chip-makers like Texas Instruments and Intel knew they ... Full Article

Malaysia Adopts Sophisticated System of Feed-in Tariffs

by Paul Gipe, Contributor | April 28, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Joining several other Asian countries, Malaysia's parliament has approved a sophisticated system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy resources. Full Article

The Solar Golden Mean

by Ceal Smith, TIERRA Consultants | April 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
When it comes to solar energy there's a lot of confusion about size. Still in its infancy, industry claims of "first" and "best" are reminiscent of two toddlers arguing over who's dad is bigger Full Article

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Reassessing the Chinese Clean-Tech Juggernaut (or Why the U.S. Shouldn't be Written off Quite Yet)

by Ron Pernick, Clean Edge | May 4, 2011 | Post Your Comment
China is clearly a clean-tech force to be reckoned with. It installed more wind power, manufactured more solar PV and solar hot water heaters, and spent more money overall on clean-energy investments than any other nation in 2010.... Full Article
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Solar Gardens Are Sprouting Up Everywhere!

by Joy Hughes | May 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
Community solar farms, or solar gardens, allow those with shaded roofs, renters, and others to own their own solar panels close to home: Colorado Solar Garden Host Sites The Solar Gardens Institute&nbsp... Full Article

Dilution for Dummies – Why A123 Systems is Undervalued

by John Petersen, Contributor | May 2, 2011 | 26 Comments
Bartenders are smarter than most investors because they know what dilution is and they never get it wrong. Unfortunately, the markets have made such a bogeyman out of the word 'dilution' that public companies often suffer extreme ... Full Article

How Al Gore was Wrong

by Dana Blankenhorn | May 2, 2011 | 6 Comments
With the publication of his book Our Choice, it's a good time to look back at Al Gore's political career and its impact As a politician Al Gore was a journalist. I'm one myself, and recognize one of my own. A journalist tells sto... Full Article

Exxon Mobil Profits Soar to $11 billion for the Quarter

by Barry Stevens | May 3, 2011 | 5 Comments
Last week, Exxon Mobil reported quarterly earnings of $11 billion.  As a side note, many headline left out the word “quarterly.” We are a capitalistic society, so the ultimate role of any corporation is to boost ... Full Article

Arguing with the World's Richest Man

by Dana Blankenhorn | May 3, 2011 | 14 Comments
Bill Gates and I are the same age. I met him at Comdex many years ago. Back then Gates was focused on one big thing, the idea that the operating system was the chokepoint of the PC market, and that by possessing that chokepoint h... Full Article

Six Weeks of Solar Hot Water: Let's Work Together for Change!

by Andrew Holden | May 4, 2011 | 10 Comments
Despite the growing awareness of the benefits of solar energy, Solar Thermal has never really caught on here in North America. Yet Solar Thermal is one of Renewable Energy's best-proven and most economical installation options f... Full Article

Top 5 Reasons To Get Your Training At the ASES National Solar Conference

by Edlin Kim | May 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
There are a lot of training programs and conferences out there.  But there's only one place where you can get the best of both: Solar and You! training at the ASES National Solar Conference. Solar and You is just around the ... Full Article

Nominate a Champion of Photovoltaics

by Meredith Courtemanche | May 3, 2011 | Post Your Comment
Each year, Photovoltaics World honors the technologists, companies, and others that advance the field of solar photovoltaics (PV). We rely on your nominations to determine the PV industry's Champions. Click on one of the nominatio... Full Article

Solar Gardens Are Sprouting Up Everywhere!

by Joy Hughes | May 3, 2011 | 2 Comments
Community solar farms, or solar gardens, allow those with shaded roofs, renters, and others to own their own solar panels close to home: Colorado Solar Garden Host Sites The Solar Gardens Institute&nbsp... Full Article

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