It hasn’t happened yet, but it’s a distinct possibility: in a recent report, analysts have predicted that China’s solar market will experience a glut in late 2009. In light of the sky-high prices of imported polysilicon, Chinese manufacturers such as LDK Solar and Suntech (Suntech is China’s largest solar cell producer, and the world’s [...]

The National Basketball Association’s Pheonix Suns have announced they will introduce a solar installation to a main parking garage at their stadium, the U.S. Airways Center. This move is a no-brainer from a marketing standpoint, and given the team’s name I’m actually surprised they hadn’t thought of this earlier.
The key take-a-way here is the fact [...]

Sky News reports that a solar-powered lawnmower has debuted in the United Kingdom. This is the first product of that kind in the world.
The real fun of following solar news lately has been seeing people apply the technology in some very strange and cool ways. There’s no real reason that the world desperately needs [...]

Telegraph UK reports that the British government will soon reverse its existing policy and will move to solar feed-in tariffs. The upshot is that Britain consumers will now be in a far better position to pursue economically feasible solar installations for their homes.

This is fantastic news by any standard. This also appears to be the [...]

For those of you planning on traveling around Boston this Presidents’ Day weekend, here’s a heads-up: you may easily brush shoulders with some of the world’s most preeminent scientists and thinkers. They’ll be rushing about the Hynes Convention Center and its adjacent buildings, making their way to the various symposia, workshops, and lectures offered by [...]

Fox Business reports that Prince Andrew is lending his name and presence to the launch of a solar energy system in California. The system installation is for the firm British Telecommunications. While his role as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for the United Kingdom obviously leaves such appearances well within his job description [...]

Martin LaMonica at CNET’s Green Tech Blog ran an interesting piece on Friday, highlighting the absence of solar from Congress’s recent and much-debated economic stimulus package. But there’s really not much of a story here.
Solar is going to continue to be as contentious in Washington as other green issues for some time to come. The [...]

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With concerns over oil supplies, as always, gripping the international community, many Middle Eastern nations are prospering as their oil resources become more in demand. Qatar, especially, has seen a great amount of economic growth. That growth is now apparently leading Qatar to put solar development high [...]

As much as they may frustrate or infuriate us, traffic lights are an indispensable part of urban, and even suburban, transportation. Over the past few weeks, South Africa’s regular blackouts-and incapacitated traffic lights-have tormented motorists: in Johannesburg, for example, they have often prolonged daily commutes to up to three times their normal length. Byproducts of [...]

When news broke earlier this month about Paris’ carbon zero office block, it wasn’t the first project of its kind that architectural firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill had undertaken. It was, rather, part of a trend they had emphasized in their advertising and marketing: sustainable design.
Among their 25 explicitly “sustainable” projects will be the new [...]