Solar Energy Initiatives — a clean energy manufacturing company — has signed a letter of intent (LOI) to build a 300-kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system atop a charter school in Delaware. The LOI doesn’t mean that the project plans are set in stone. But it does means that Solar Energy Initiatives will work [...]

Two of the major reasons California has been a nationwide and worldwide leader in solar energy production are its initiatives aimed at alleviating some of the cost of installation, and programs aimed at bringing solar energy — and solar jobs — to communities that could otherwise not afford such systems.

Today, Caltech Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Sossina Haile and a team of Swiss researchers are one step closer to developing liquid fuel from sunlight after discovering a commonly used element can do the trick. Earlier this week, Haile shared the findings of her research and her hope for the future with NPR. You can listen to it here, or read the details of the study that we’ve pulled out.

If you’re trying to start a solar movement within your community but are stuck at the starting line, caught between deciding who to talk to and which roofs are suitable for solar, there’s a new guide that can help you get your solar revolution off the ground.

Earlier today, the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL Utah) released a study saying that the majority of the entire state’s energy needs could be met with renewable energy by the middle of this century.

Within the past three months, three former contaminated brownfield sites in the United States have been transformed into clean energy solar power generators.

Cupertino Electric in northern California’s Silicon Valley has installed a photovoltaic (PV) system atop the World Cruise Ship Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles, California that is expected to produce 1.2 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy each year.

The YMCA in Santa Rosa, California is joining the solar energy revolution, and doing so by using one of the hottest trends in the industry: a solar carport.

Big news came out of San Francisco this morning, as Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the completion of the Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, which the city claims is the largest municipal solar installation in the great state of California. Recurrent Energy, the solar project developer that installed the 24,000-panel system and will own and operate it, took things a step further by calling it one of the largest such projects in the entire country.

Two sources of renewable energy — solar generation and wind power — are heading in opposite directions in San Francisco where, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, solar installations have double over the last 2 1/2 years compared to only nine wind projects.