Earlier in the week I took a look at which brands of solar panels have been top choices for residential solar energy systems in California. We found that three manufacturers — SunPower, Sharp Solar and BP Solar — have accounted for about half of all residential solar energy systems, judging from the number of rebate [...]

This morning, I got to tinkering around with some numbers from California Solar Statistics, a program of the state’s Energy Commission and Public Utilities Commission. What did I find? Well, beyond a wealth of details on system size, average installed cost and California solar incentives, I verified that most solar home energy systems in the [...]

The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) building in Philadelphia is now home to Pennsylvania’s largest solar energy system. Able to generate approximately 555,160 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of solar electricity, the system will power nearly five percent of all of the building’s electricity needs.

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 [...]

CalRENEW-1, California’s first utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) solar energy project, was dedicated yesterday in the northern California city of Mendota in Fresno County.