An unlikely location in the Midwest is setting up to be a locus of solar activity: Detroit, Michigan, former world auto industry capital as famed for its Model-Ts as it was for its smoke-belching factories, is also at the center of a pilot solar incentive program offered by utility company DTE Energy Co. through its [...]

It may only be a matter of time before America’s Rust Belt sheds its image of faded glory for a new moniker that is about as green as it is snazzy, because a new industry has come to town and hit the ground running. At Solar Power International 2009, officials from Ohio sung praises of [...]