One of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the world, the producer of the most efficient commercial solar modules on the planet, and a large solar developer — SunPower* — … [Read full article]
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California Solar Power Hits New Output Record
California solar power plants recently hit a new electricity output record for electricity from utility-scale solar power plants. It hit 4.813 gigawatts of output on August 15 at 12:03pm. The data … [Read full article]
SolarCity Wants 1 Million Solar Customers By 2018
Originally published on Solar Love. SolarCity, already the #1 full-service solar provider in the US, has announced a target of 1 million solar customers by 2018, following a pretty huge, … [Read full article]
Solar Power Growing Faster Than Usain Bolt Can Run
Originally published on Solar Love. There’s a solar panel installation boom going on. In the EU. In the US. In Asia. In South America. Globally. Solar panel installation volumes have … [Read full article]
Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 5 (#41–50)
We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so … [Read full article]
Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 4 (#31–40)
We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so … [Read full article]
Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 3 (#21–30)
We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so … [Read full article]
Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 2 (#2–21)
We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so … [Read full article]
Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of 2013 (So Far): Part 1 (#1–10)
We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going here on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 … [Read full article]
Almost 100% New Electricity To Be From Solar In California In 2nd Half Of 2013
Reposting this big news from Solar Love: Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97% of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to … [Read full article]
Solar Energy Take-Up Across the World
The global solar power industry has experienced remarkable growth since the 2009 recession. The growth rate each year between 2007 to 2011 was around 70%. At the end of … [Read full article]
China Continues to Dominate Global Renewable Energy Market
Ernst & Young released late August their quarterly global Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices report which showed that China is set to continue it domination of the global renewable energy market, … [Read full article]
31,000 MW of Solar Potential Identified by Dept. of Interior and BLM
The Department of the Interior, working with the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Energy have identified solar energy development potential in six Western states in seventeen different areas. … [Read full article]