Major U.S. solar firm SolarCity has started a nonprofit organization to help provide children around the world with clean energy to light...

SolarCity, one of the country’s largest solar leasing firms, will launch a new online investment platform to allow people to support and...

A new report predicts an uptick in spending on solar photovoltaic equipment starting in 2015, reaching up to $10 billion in 2017. The...

Global demand for solar PV is set to reach 49 GW this year, up from 36 GW in 2013, with almost half coming from the Asia-Pacific region....

The third quarter of 2013 saw the second-highest installed PV capacity in U.S. history, with 930 MW installed in Q3 2013, according to a...

The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found that “soft costs” make up 64% of the cost of home solar....

The U.S. solar PV project pipeline is now over 43 GW, indicating that the country will become the third largest solar market in the...

A new report from Lux Research projects that the global PV solar market will be worth a mammoth $155 billion in 2018. The research firm...

A new report says that revenue from solar PV module sales will drop by 20 percent in 2013 to $20.5 billion from $25.5 billion in 2012,...

A new report has found that the U.S. solar industry now employs almost 120,000 people, with California leading the way. According to The...

According to NPD Solarbuzz, global demand for solar PV in the first quarter of 2013 will be just 6.2 GW, down 23% from the previous...

Concentrating solar power firm BrightSource Energy has suspended the permit application for the Hidden Hills Solar project with the...

Demand for solar in emerging Asia PV markets is set to grow to over 3 GW by 2017 according to research firm NPD Solarbuzz, with Thailand...

This week, Suntech Power announced it will stop production at its solar panel plant in Goodyear, Arizona on April 3. Suntech is one of...

The largest drug store chain in the U.S., Walgreens, plans to build what it says will be the first net zero energy retail store in the...

According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), the global solar industry is set to bounce back in 2013, after a difficult 2012. BNEF...

According to market research firm NPD Solarbuzz, the annual growth rate for global PV demand fell to a ten-year low in 2012. The upcoming...

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has just launched the U.S. Solar Heating and Cooling Alliance (SHC Alliance), an industry...

As of the end of 2012, the total grid-connected solar PV capacity worldwide reached 100 gigawatts. That preliminary figure comes from the...

Spending on PV equipment fell from $12.9 billion in 2011 to $3.6 billion in 2012, according to the new PV Equipment Quarterly from NPD...