What Does the Solyndra Bankruptcy Really Tell Us?

The announcement this week from solar pv manufacturer, Solyndra, that they will enter bankruptcy has received a great deal of press and consternation from solar advocates throughout the country, including an intense amount of speculation about what went wrong. After learning more about Solyndra’s product and the pv manufacturing market in general, I think a […]

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US, California PV installs soaring

Via Electroiq US PV installations will spike 166% in 2011 to 2.4GW, doubling the 80% growth seen in 2010, with California leading the way, according to new reports from IHS iSuppli. The number of PV installations will climb 25% this year to 49,000, according to the firm. Ground-mount installs make up a little more than […]

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DOE Awards $2 Billion Loans to Double Concentrating Solar Capacity in the US

Photo: . 2 Concentrating Solar Project in California Google isn’t the only one in . The U.S. Department of Energy has just announced new conditional loan guarantees that should inject about $2 billion into two large-scale solar thermal projects…. … Source: DOE Awards $2 Billion Loans to Double Concentrating Solar Capacity in the US.

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How are Homeowners and Businesses Paying for Solar Energy Systems?

Editor’s Note: This entry has been cross-posted from . We commonly think that the sun provides free energy. That’s true, but photovoltaic panels and other equipment to harvest that energy aren’t free. The question is: how are they paid for? U.S. residential and commercial solar system customers have historically paid the old-fashioned way: with cash. […]

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