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Solar panels ‘Made in the USA’…or not?

Solar panels ‘Made in the USA’…or not?

Texas Attorney General alleges PV module manufacturer 1SolTech relabeled Chinese panels as U.S. made Here’s a quick one before the weekend from the Curator’s ironic breaking news files. One of the few U.S. solar panel manufacturers left standing—a number that shrank...
Solar data junkies, take heart!

Solar data junkies, take heart!

New MW-scale solar installations come in strong second in latest FERC data, while First Solar breaks ground on another big PV project, earns top honors on SPW Top 250 list The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, better known by its nicknamey acronym FERC, tracks the...
Concentrating solar power mixed signals

Concentrating solar power mixed signals

Several CSP projects set to go live this year, but sector faces serious challenges at Palen and elsewhere Nearly a gigawatt of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) plants should be completed and come online in the United States by the end of 2013, according to the...
Second to none

Second to none

New ‘U.S. Solar Market Insight’ Q2 report finds robustness among the lumpiness The market analyst term “lumpiness” has a certain tactility to it, a suggestion of inconsistency that suits the uneven economic conditions that it describes. But just because an industrial...

Solar due diligence

SolarPro magazine performs industry service with the mother of all PV module reliability feature articles Although almost every magazine I read incorporates extra bells and whistles in the digital domain—and many have eschewed print altogether—when that bound...