Plastic bags and food wrappers line the sea surface and float in the ocean as diver Rich Horner swims along a coast in Bali.

February 15, 2017

"In its biggest year to date, the U.S. solar market nearly doubled its annual record, topping out at 14,625 megawatts of solar PV installed in 2016."

January 31, 2017

"At the center of our solar system, approximately 92.96 million miles away, is a nuclear power plant capable of powering the entire globe. We know it by its most common name: our sun."

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January 27, 2017

"This month, the Energy Department noted in its annual energy and jobs report that, 'Solar technologies, both photovoltaic and concentrated, employ almost 374,000 workers, or 43% of the electric power generation workforce.' (Coal, by contrast, accounts for about 86,000 workers.)"

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Likewise, according to a report published by the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps program, solar and wind jobs are growing at a rate 12 times faster than the rest of the US economy. Firms are dedicating their energies to sustainability and the potential of cheaper, more technologically advanced non-polluting energy.

January 25, 2017

Reuters reports that, according to two agency employees, the Trump administration has instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to remove the climate change page from its website. This represents an example of other attempts to curb the flow of information at the federal level as it relates to environmental policy. There has also been a removal of references to climate change at whitehouse.gov.

January 17, 2017

As renewable energy markets expand, experts are preparing for the future and how to handle the changing technology and marketplace. Renewable Energy World  has put together a thought-provoking list of areas that are expected to draw particular interest in 2017. The list includes drone technology, corporate interest in renewables and solar growth in India. Check it out below. 

December 08, 2016

Over the years, we heard from trolls and clickbait fake news claims that much more carbon is released in the production of solar modules than is saved by their production of clean 'carbon free' electricity. Early studies all debunked this myth and manufacturers go to great lengths to communicate about their use of renewable energy in their process. We have been confident in using this fact based information to educate our community and overcome customer objections. Today, we are even more excited about clean solar electricity because exciting research on this topic was just published in the leading scientific journal, Nature. Energy payback times have dropped from 5 years in 1992 to under 1 year for poly-silicon PV modules.

August 09, 2016

This year, a team including scientists from Drexel University, the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Pennsylvania and the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory published its findings in the journal Nature Photonics. They discovered a new type of crystal to help convert light energy into electrical energy much more efficiently than previously theories would indicate.

July 29, 2016

"The ceremony celebrates the agreement to build a new solar facility at Oceana, Virginia's participation in Oceana's solar facility and the power purchase agreement to secure renewable energy for Naval Station Norfolk."

July 18, 2016

“We have such good sun here. It’s free. Why don’t we use more of it?”
 

July 12, 2016

Cleveland is known for its cloudy winters, but that hasn't stopped solar-power advocates from investing in the sun. Businesses and homeowners have assessed the pros and cons of putting a solar array on their rooftops or on their grounds to capture the free, renewable energy from the sun.

July 08, 2016

Missouri is planning on installing a solar roadway to provide clean energy to the area.

June 24, 2016

This trend in powering our schools reflects the growing recognition by district and state officials that photo-voltaic electrical systems offer significant financial and environmental benefits. Here are four key reasons why more schools are making this transition.

June 18, 2016

Solar energy has been advancing faster than anyone expected a few years ago thanks to aggressive market-based deployment efforts around the globe. Since it’s hard to keep up with the speed-of-light changes here are all the latest charts and facts to keep you in the loop.

June 07, 2016

Every year humans release about 10 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. What do our CO2 emissions actually look like? This video might surprise you.

June 02, 2015

A solar plant in the Mojave Desert — the largest of its kind in the world — officially opened Thursday, and began providing energy to customers in California. The opening is seen as a milestone for a growing industry that is testing the balance between wilderness conservation and the pursuit of green energy across the American West. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, formally opened Thursday after years of regulatory and legal tangles ranging from relocating protected tortoises to assessing the impact on Mojave milkweed and other plants.

May 24, 2016

“It has often been said that it is next to impossible to have an energy system in which 100 percent of the power production…Brandenburg (an inland state in Germany) will most probably soon be producing more renewable electricity than it consumes and will be exporting a growing share of its production.”