Pilkington North America Inc. — the Toledo, Ohio-based manufacturer and marketer of safety glass for both buildings and cars — is set to partner with Hull & Associates Inc. to install a 250-kilowatt (kW) ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) system on a former brownfield in Toledo.

If you’ve noodled around on the Web looking for information on residential solar energy systems, you may have come across something called a “Solar Renewable Energy Credit” — or SREC (pronounced “S wreck“) for short. Since SRECs help make solar panels a great investment in some states, we figured it might be helpful to explain [...]

The new solar plant, appropriately named Turning Point, will feature a 239,400-solar panel array with 49.9 megawatts (MW) worth of annual solar capacity.

Following the announcement of a new solar power plant in Wyandot County, Ohio, comes the completion of another solar thin-film installation — the second the state has seen in as many weeks. Dayton Power & Light Company (DP&L), a utility, today announced the opening of a 1.1-megawatt (MW) solar installation at its Yankee substation in [...]

Late last week, Juwi Solar, a Colorado-based engineering, procurement and constuction (EPC) contractor of solar power plants in North America, announced that it had completed a 12.6 megawatt (MW), 77-acre thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar plant in Ohio’s Wyandot County.

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 [...]

A number of U.S. states require electricity providers to derive a minimum percentage of their power from renewable sources by a certain date. Such a requirement is often referred to a renewable portfolio standard, or RPS. Currently, 24 states, plus the District of Columbia have formalized RPSs in place, while five other states have legislated [...]

Ohio will be home to a PV module manufacturing plant of 60 MW capacity, and a non-profit advocacy group announced funding for a solar hot water rebate for state residents.