The holidays may be nearly over, but with wallets tightening worldwide, perhaps now is as good a time as ever to reflect (how often does that word seem to crop up in year-end blog posts?) on all the big-picture, money-draining yet far-sighted and inspirational solar projects to have emerged from the developing world this [...]

Despite reports from the National Bureau of Economic Research that the U.S. has officially been in recession all year, the solar industry seems poised to soldier on. The evidence? The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just announced plans to relocate the Solar Expo 2009 from San Jose to Anaheim. The facility in San Jose, apparently, [...]

With oil prices volatile—teeter-tottering from a high of over $147 this July to $38 a barrel this week—and the world economy faring not much better, investing in solar is probably not the first thing on many people’s minds right now. Yet, dismal economic forecasts and industry difficulties—not to mention troubled state incentives—aside, a report [...]

As reported by Jan Ellen Spiegel of the New York Times,
Connecticut’s touted solar rebate program, which experts have pointed to as exemplary, may not be so perfect after all. Six months into its current two-year budget cycle, it is nearly out of cash, leaving homeowners, businesses, and nonprofit and governmental organizations that want to buy [...]

A ballot measure for a solar plan in Los Angeles is provoking controversy in the city.

Here at GetSolar, we spend a lot of time discussing rebates and tax credits that are available to residents and companies who install solar energy systems. The main reason is that, absent such incentives, solar PV systems don’t provide an attractive rate of return for your investment. Put differently, without some help from Uncle Sam [...]

A look at a handful of different solar charities and nonprofits who could use your help this holiday season.

A look at a few solar companies defying the current soft market.

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to tap Steven Chu, current director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for the top spot at DOE. As reported by the San Francisco Chronical,
The selection of Chu, who has led efforts to use solar energy in cars and to work with oil companies on biofuels, would signal a bold [...]

IBM’s World Community Grid uses the computing power of more than a million home PCs worldwide to speed up the enormous calculations required in endeavors like new medical research. IBM has now teamed up with Harvard University in a unique project: devoting the World Community Grid’s processing power to finding a chemical compound that will [...]