Since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina (that bitch), New Orleans has had to rebuild much of itself from scratch. The upside of that reconstruction is that a large number of homes going up there are installing solar panels. The solar panels seem to be part of a larger trend in New Orleans as organic farming [...]

Spain made a massive push into the solar power industry last year. The Spanish solar energy market saw a 100% increase over 2007 with growth of 2,661 new megawatts of power. This inflated the global solar market such that last year the cost of solar panels was extremely high. But with the a purchasing cap [...]

Why do we care that a Gatorade factory has some solar panles? Because it’s one of the largest customer-owned solar power projects in all of Arizona. And also because this eco-friendly factory (oxymoron?) deserves some attention since even before the solar panel installastion it had already been awarded with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Gold-level [...]

Denver-based startup BrightPhase Energy, has what it hopes will be an important addition to the solar energy industry, the Photensity. The Photensity is a box that contains three different technologies that exploit solar energy in three different ways. Primarily it acts as a solar panel with silicon solar cells that are mounted on a set [...]

Nothing is as environmentally friendly as solar energy, right? Well what happens when a panel no longer works and hits the landfill? That’s the question being asked by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC). This morning the SVTC released a report that looks to the solar industry, of all places, to adopt more environmentally conscious [...]