Check out these fun solar stories (after reading our own solar stories): New York Net Metering Cap Suspended For Now Adding to the distributed energy/net metering debate involving utilities and solar panel owners, New York State for now has lifted the cap on net metering. SDG&E Utility Warns It Will Hit Net Metering … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. Carrying out applied research throughout the entire process chain of wafer-based silicon solar module production, Fraunhofer CSP is currently working on improving the quality of wafer-thin silicon discs and in producing them as cheaply as possible.
GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited has debt of about $6 billion on its balance sheet which it plans to reduce by selling at least some of its production facilities of polysilicon wafers. One of China’s and the world’s largest solar power equipment manufacturers, GCL-Poly Energy [PDF], has announced its plans to … [continued]
I just gave a presentation today to a class of renewable energy graduate students which mentioned solar PV’s tremendous growth over the past several years and its projected growth in the coming years. As the U.S. Solar Market Insight: Third Quarter 2012 report released today shows, the US Solar industry is indeed still … [continued]
There’s a new solar cell company on the scene. Twin Creeks Technologies, a US startup, is looking to disrupt the solar market with its unique way of creating super thin solar cells. In other words, the company is developing a way for solar cell companies to produce solar cells (and, … [continued]
China is an attractive place for clean energy companies. It has some of the most supportive policies in the world, and many would say the most supportive. It’s clear that’s not just abstract talk when more and more North American and European companies decide to set up major manufacturing plants and research facilities there.
