solar energy

WGL Energy, a WGL entity, and Conergy have completed their joint venture to bring solar energy to Merced County, California. The newly constructed array will provide over 1,200 MWh of energy to the City of Atwater annually, enough...  more

sPower has won a 20-year power purchase agreement from Lancaster Choice Energy, the City of Lancaster’s locally-operated and locally-controlled clean power company, to provide 10MWac of solar power installations. sPower will deli...  more

Kyocera Solar has completed a solar-lighting project on the Acro Metropolitano do Rio de Janeiro, a highway project connecting the five main highways crossing Rio de Janeiro. More than 4,300 solar-powered LED streetlights a...  more

The University of California Riverside (UCR) came up with an innovative new approach that could significantly increase the amount of light available to contemporary solar panel designs. This new study looked at taking curre...  more

SkyPower and Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has signed a landmark agreement to invest US$ 2.2 billion in the development of 1GW of solar projects at this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2015). This is a ...  more

sPower has broken ground on the 45MW Sandstone Solar project in Florence, Arizona. The facility is schedule to be completed and commence operation by the end of 2015, while a 21-year power purchase agreement has been secure...  more

Southern Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has acquired the 20MW Butler Solar Farm from Strata Solar, reaching the milestone of developing more than 400MW of solar power in the state of Georgia. Thin-film modules produced b...  more

Going green is a trendy strategy among global-leaders in IT enterprises. Cisco, an international IT company, has awarded NRG Renew to develop a 20MW solar energy facility at its San Jose headquarters. Cisco aims to use rene...  more

Solar array in India. (Source: Wikipedia) India booming! Japan’s Softbank Corp announced to team up with India’s Bharti Enterprises and Taiwand’s Foxconn to form a joint venture called “SBG Cleantech Limited” (SBG Cleante...  more

At Medeiros and Son Dairy, a family farm located in Hanford, California, solar power will be another thing to “harvest.” Calcom Solar is now installing a 1.1MW solar power system using NEXTracker’s technology at the farm, a...  more