The symbolism can’t get much better. In southern West Virginia, a region notorious for its coal-fired plants, a new, 40-by-15 -foot rooftop solar energy system has been installed and is now producing clean energy.

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

It’s been a long, hard road for the Federal Government and the California Energy Commission(CEC) in gaining enough public support and financial backing to move forward with the Ivanpah Solar Project — a 392-megawatt (MW) solar thermal plant to be built in California’s Mojave Desert. Scale back in size from the original plan, environmental setbacks, commission approval and public comments are just a few of the hurdles cleared along the path to construction.

For the last 30 years, the Canadian Rockies International Airport in British Columbia has been gathering data to prove that the region has one of the highest solar intensities in all of Canada.

For over four decades, tech junkies from everywhere have decended upon Las Vegas, Nevad at the beginning of the new year for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — the largest consumer technology tradeshow in the world.

The results released today from a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory test is great news for homeowners looking to install solar energy systems.

Sun Edison has announced today that it is partnering with the electronic manufacturing facility Flextronics to begin constructing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Ontario, Canada. The manufacturing partnership was made to help Canada’s York region fulfill product demand for its new feed-intariff program (FIT) — the first such electricity pricing structure in North America.

According to a new study released today by Greentech Media Company (GTM), the U.S. market for utility-scale solar energy farms is expected to double each year between 2010 and 2015. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research group came to this conclusion after carefully reviewing all solar power projects that have been announced by developers and utilities to date.

Solar energy advocates from California are expected use Solar Power International (SPI) to push the idea of a feed-in tariff program as a way for states to generate more solar energy.

After repeatedly denying it aims to compete with a solar shingle product set to be released in 2011 by Dow Chemical, Dupont, which currently manufactures secondary solar materials, hinted to Reuters on Monday that it may be stepping up to the challenge after all. The heat was put on Dupont last year when Dow, which [...]