According to a new study released today by Greentech Media Company (GTM), the U.S. market for utility-scale solar energy farms is expected to double each year between 2010 and 2015. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research group came to this conclusion after carefully reviewing all solar power projects that have been announced by developers and utilities to date.

Qualified California homeowners are realizing what many leaders of the solar energy industry hope is the future: free solar energy.

Thanks to an agreement between the solar panel manufacturing and installation company SunPower and Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU), the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) will have a fully operational, 6-megawatt (MW), 30-acre solar energy system by the summer of 2011.

A plan is in the works to transform a 216-acre chunk of empty private land in Colorado’s Alamosa County into a 30-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) plant that would be producing power by the end of calendar year 2012.

Black Hills Energy, a Colorado utility company, on Monday announced the suspension of it solar energy rebate program through the end of the year, issuing the following notice on its website: Thank you for your interest, indeed. Prior to the announcement, Black Hills’ solar rebate program offered homeowners who installed solar panels a rebate of [...]

There are several factors working in Tessera’s favor. The new plant would create approximately 40 new clean energy jobs and bring in an additional $1.5 million in tax revenue each year.

Palisade Pharmacy, with the help of Colorado-based Syndicated Solar, has installed a 13-KW solar energy system that is expected to off-set nearly half of the pharmacy’s annual energy consumption and save the nearly 35-year-old business approximately $2,400 in utility costs each year.

The Greater Sandhill Solar Project, as it is called, will be built by SunPower Corporation and have a generating capacity of 17 megawatts (MW) – enough to power 6,700 average American homes for a full year.

As far as awards go, the ones announced yesterday by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) are by most measures modest. How headline-grabbing, after all, are caulk, weather stripping and energy-efficient washing machines? (Answer: Not very.) While lacking the glamor of an Oscar, however, the ACEEE’s Top Energy-Efficiency Awards arguably touch on matters [...]

The Center for Innovation and Creativity on the campus at the University of Colorado at Boulder is now ten percent solar powered, courtesy of a 370-solar-panel installation that was recently installed atop the center’s roof. The solar installation is the most recent addition to CU Boulder under the university’s long-term sustainability commitment initiative and will [...]