Blessed with lots of sunshine, Arizona is a great place to install solar panels. Thanks to a pro-business climate and its close proximity to big markets, like California, the state is turning out to be a great place to make solar panels, too. Consider that the two world’s two biggest solar panel manufacturers have Arizona-based [...]

The world of solar leasing just got a whole lot more interesting. Last week, Google announced a plan to invest $280 million in SolarCity, a California-based company that offers solar leases in ten states across the U.S. Hours after, news broke that Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd — a large China-based manufacturer of solar panels [...]

We commonly think of this globalized economy of ours in terms of American companies shifting production overseas. It turns out the reverse occurs, too, even if at a much smaller scale. Suntech Power, a leading China-based manufacturer of solar panels, said it has hired 30 workers at its Arizona plant in a push to expand [...]

Earlier in the week I took a look at which brands of solar panels have been top choices for residential solar energy systems in California. We found that three manufacturers — SunPower, Sharp Solar and BP Solar — have accounted for about half of all residential solar energy systems, judging from the number of rebate [...]

The world’s largest manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules is just weeks away from opening its first U.S. plant, bringing with it hundreds of much needed jobs to add to the steadily growing green energy sector of the U.S. economy.

In 2008, a wave of fortune crashed upon Solar Sailor as the 11-year-old hybrid vessel manufacturer sold one if its ferries to Suntech Power, China’s leader in solar panel manufacturing. This deal is one of the main reasons why 2010 will be the company’s first profitable year since it opened for business in 1999.

Well ahead of the German solar subsidy cuts slated for July 1, German demand for solar modules from powerhouses Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd. and First Solar has been high—high enough to have prompted the former to add 1 gigawatt in production capacity in Shanghai over the following three years, and high enough to  have [...]

The trouble with reading any analyses, reports or simple statements from industry experts is how difficult it can be to sift through the mass of material. Differentiating sound judgment from pure noise, or attempts at manipulation from a desire to present balanced viewpoints—these are the challenges that face anyone with an interest in a burgeoning [...]

SunTech has been quite the news-maker these days.  The Chinese solar-panel maker recently announced plans to open its first U.S.-based plant in the Phoenix area. The new facility is expected to employ over 75 full-time employees and, depending on how the U.S. solar market performs, may double the number on payroll within a year. In [...]

Suntech Power Holdings Co., (STP), the world’s largest makes of silicon-based solar panels, today announced plans to expand its activities in Pakistan’s market. The company will partner with Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) to “work towards the widespread use of solar energy technologies to meet the energy shortage in Pakistan.” The press release goes [...]