What better time than now, during the United Nations climate change conference in Cancun, Mexico, to show the world what we can do with clean solar power?

A new report released yesterday by the Solar Energy Industries Association predicts that, by 2020, global solar capacity could reach 980 gigawatts (GW).

A trio of companies are developing large capacity clean energy storage batteries in order to keep up with demand for larger plants that are being built throughout the country.

In the past two weeks those opposed to Prop. 23 have tapped into deep pockets, including those of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and award-winning film director James Cameron, to raise nearly $12 million to fight the proposition backed mainly by Tesero Corp. and Valero Energy Corp.

We talk a lot on this blog about how solar panels can cut monthly electricity costs and, in some states (like New Jersey, California, Arizona, Hawaii, Colorado and Pennsylvania) offer homeowners a stunningly attractive return on investment. Sometimes it’s worth remembering, however, that solar panels produce clean, emissions-free electricity. In other words, solar power can [...]

There are more important reasons why Prop. 23 is bad for California – the first of which is that it is asking the California economy to sustain an unemployment level that has rarely ever been attained.

The heads of five U.S. professional sports leagues – Major League Baseball, the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Soccer – distributed a Solar Electric Energy Guide for Stadiums and Arenas to all 140 teams in the five leagues combined.

The company says it will allow the billboard, one that is powered by 62 solar panels, 24 thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules and 16 LED floodlights, to go dark when there is not enough sunlight. The other option would be to connect the billboard to grid-sourced electricity when the solar power is not enough to keep it lit.

Business leaders passionate about America’s clean energy economy converged in Washington today for the final stretch of advocacy group We Can Lead’s “Race for American Jobs: Clean Energy Leadership”. Participants along the way have included Fortune 500 executives (Best Buy, Nike, Starbucks, Levi Strauss, Jones Lang LaSalle and Stonyfield) as well as leaders from the clean [...]

For the past few years, cap and trade legislation has seemed like the best–to some, the only–way to encourage a swift move to a lower-carbon economy, incentivizing renewable energies like solar power on the way. But cap and trade is facing such strong opposition that legislators have had to seek for alternative ways to address [...]