The solar industry’s recovery is just over the horizon, with help from U.S. stimulus funds, new government projects and new methods of financing—or that’s how an executive from solar powerhouse Sharp Corp. sees it, anyway. “I call it a warming up,” Ron Kenedi, vice president of Sharp Solar Energy Solutions Group, said in an interview [...]

Despite reports from the National Bureau of Economic Research that the U.S. has officially been in recession all year, the solar industry seems poised to soldier on. The evidence? The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) just announced plans to relocate the Solar Expo 2009 from San Jose to Anaheim. The facility in San Jose, apparently, [...]