The latest data released by the Nation Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has Pennsylvania moving up the charts to third in the nation in currently operating solar projects and fourth in installed solar energy capacity.

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.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) – an international healthcare company – has begun installing what it says is North America’s largest photovoltaic (PV) rooftop solar energy system at its 500,000 square-foot Northeast Regional Distribution Center (RDC) in York, Pennsylvania.

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 [...]

New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislatures and schoold boards are so serious about schools implementing solar energy that they are trying to put it into law.

T-Mobile wireless broadband customers in the small borough of Chalfont, Pennsylvania will soon be receiving their signal from the company’s first solar-powered cellular tower.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell kicked off September by unveiling a new, $20.5 million, 40-project energy plan for his state, with the aim of creating jobs, increasing clean energy use and cutting back on overall energy use throughout Pennsylvania.

After recently receiving approval from a local planning board, the Radnor, Pennsylvania-based solar development company Community Energy is one step closer to constructing the first solar farm in Quinton Township, New Jersey.

Battery storage backup for renewable energy systems — like solar and wind — is not widely used in residential applications. But when it comes to larger systems, a number of recent projects have featured batteries. Two years ago, for instance, a BIG energy storage system was hooked up to an 11-megawatt wind farm in Minnesota. [...]

NASCAR’s Pocono Raceway has recently installed a 3-megwatt solar energy system expected to produce 72 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of solar energy over the next 20 years. That would be enough energy to cover all of the track’s electricity needs, as well as the needs of 1,000 local homes over that time span. The 25-acre photovoltaic (PV) solar farm made up of 40,000 solar panels is the largest solar installation at any sporting venue in the world.