Meet the Sunshot Program — a program through which the DOE will invest $27 million in developing and commercializing solar technology.

Now two years after the passing of the bill, SBI Energy has released a report detailing how the ARRA has helped advance the use of clean energy throughout the country.

There have been conflicting reports as to how much the U.S. military would benefit by using solar energy.

A military authorization law recently signed by President Obama could lead to a solar standoff between the U.S. and China — now the world’s largest producer of solar panels.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York: Residents of these states can expect prime opportunities to go solar in 2011 as these five state’s governors’ have made solar energy production and solar technology development a top priority for the new year and beyond.

A new Maryland law scheduled to take effect on January 1st will require state utility companies to purchase more solar power.

Since the inauguration of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in 2007, the state has installed 29.8 megawatts (MW) of solar energy capacity and stands third to only California and New Jersey when it comes to states with the most installed solar capacity. With such an increase in solar during his first term, it would have been easy for Patrick to call it a job well done, satisfied for at least a few years with the state’s progress.

On Thursday, the Obama Administration released a much-anticipated draft of the federal government’s plan to build solar energy projects on public land throughout the United States (at 10,000 pages, it reads more like a novel). So in an effort to save you a whole lot of time, we’ve whittled out the details of what the plan — officially called the Draft Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement — actually entails.

As expected, the United States Senate today pushed President Obama’s polarizing tax plan to an official vote.

The word out of Washington late this week was that Senators and the Obama Administration have agreed on a plan to extend the U.S. Treasury Department’s Treasury Grant Program for another year.