After boffo quarters, SunPower moves to add production capacity while First Solar makes serious manufacturing cost reduction, efficiency progress Having the quarterly earnings releases from two of the big dogs of U.S. solar—SunPower and First Solar—on successive days...
New deployment, development and production in Fiji, El Salvador, Brazil, Lithuania, and Turkey underscore solar’s increasing geographic diversity As followers and fans of the Curator know, I love finding new and unexpected locales where solar power has been deployed...
New report underscores surge in solar PV installations in the U.S. business community When I was growing up, if someone said, “he means business,” the phrase implied that the guy was serious in intent and focused on his objectives. The play on words inherent in the...
South Coast Solar’s video toasts Abita Brewing PV installation job in Louisiana Two of my favorite market disruptions–solar power and craft beer–converge when a brewery puts photovoltaics and/or solar hot water on its property. A freshly brewed example of the...
Solana starts commercial operation, Topaz crosses the five-million module mark, SolarCity plops down big bucks for Zep, a grand solar day in the life of German renewable generation Hundreds of megawatts (and gigawatt-hours), millions of panels, tens and hundreds of...