U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar ushered in the second full day of the 2010 Solar Power International (SPI) Conference and Exhibition on Wednesday by signing off on the first large-scale solar energy project to be built on public land in Nevada.

One incentive sure to be discussed is the state’s Renewable Energy Tax Incentives Program that offers two main benefits to companies willing to open manufacturing plants in Arizona: a refundable income tax credit of up to 10 percent and a reduction on real and personal property taxes of up to 75 percent.

In Anaheim this week, the country’s largest business-to-business solar conference has kept more than 25,000 attendees busy with more than 900 exhibitors. One can feel a little lost trying to navigate among the different sections: solar panel and inverter manufacturers, state solar associations, solar training groups, and of course solar installers fill up nearly 204,000 [...]

Solar Power International 2009, largest solar conference in the country, is October 27-29. Solar panel manufacturers and solar installers will be there.