Alternative Energy / Solar Energy

May 06, 2016 at 12:07 | Colin Chilcoat

On Earth Day, some 171 nations formally signed the Paris climate agreement; it was a mostly symbolic, though meaningful next step. The document now awaits…

May 04, 2016 at 17:32 | Rakesh Upadhyay

After acquiring the second-largest solar company in the world, global energy giant French Total SA is seeking to set up a solar business in Qatar to…

Apr 22, 2016 at 15:55 | Michael McDonald

One of the worst keep secrets in the market in recent months has been that SunEdison was in trouble. The solar company is one of the…

Apr 01, 2016 at 18:10 | Michael McDonald

Solar Power’s biggest problem is predictably simple – the sun does not shine all the time. To combat this issue, power companies have traditionally relied on…

Mar 28, 2016 at 16:23 | Nick Cunningham

Solar energy is rapidly becoming one of the top choices for new electricity capacity as costs continue to decline and generous public policies accelerate tremendous…

Mar 14, 2016 at 16:21 | Michael McDonald

Solar power, like Democracy, stinks. It is costly, converts very little energy from the sun into actual energy, and it mars the aesthetic appearance of many…

Feb 19, 2016 at 16:53 | Ronke Luke

When His Majesty Mohammed VI of Morocco commissioned the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant on February 4, 2016, long-term advocates for clean energy…

Feb 15, 2016 at 16:32 | Nick Cunningham

Now that solar power is reaching prime time, the fossil fuel industry is doing all that it can to stop its growth. For many years solar…

Feb 10, 2016 at 14:33 | Michael McDonald

Roads have been mostly the same for a thousand years. Different types of vehicles traveled on them, and the surfaces might have been made with different…

Jan 26, 2016 at 17:06 | Michael McDonald

Anyone looking for evidence that solar power is more than just a passing fad need only look at Australia’s newest solar plants. Recently, the country saw two new solar plants…

Jan 11, 2016 at 16:26 | Michael McDonald

Google’s newest project to bring people into its ecosystem is an online solar calculator that is supposed to let consumers easily evaluate the costs and…

Dec 29, 2015 at 17:36 | Nick Cunningham

In a clash of the titans, Warren Buffett just defeated Elon Musk. The fight was over solar net-metering in Nevada, a state that has the fifth…

Dec 23, 2015 at 15:52 | Michael McDonald

The success of solar has really been a case of successful innovations in financing as much as successful innovations in technology. As with some many other…

Dec 07, 2015 at 17:05 | Henry Hewitt

Gandhi would be pushing hard to make this happen. Teaching locals how to produce salt from seawater in 1930…

Dec 03, 2015 at 13:44 | Gaurav Agnihotri

The Paris COP21 climate summit is turning out to be quite effective as several major agreements and initiatives have been announced in the past few days.…

Oct 23, 2015 at 15:52 | Gaurav Agnihotri

With stock prices soaring and the investor money flowing in at a rapid pace, renewable energy companies have experienced significant growth recently. However, this trend is…

Oct 22, 2015 at 17:16 | Michael McDonald

There is something big happening in solar. This fact is becoming more evident every day. Regardless of one’s view on renewable energy overall and whether mankind…

Sep 11, 2015 at 15:25 | Martin Tillier

When it comes to the stock market, bottom fishing can be a dangerous game.Once momentum takes hold, particularly downward momentum, it can continue well past the point where…

Sep 09, 2015 at 16:18 | Nick Cunningham

The U.S. solar industry hit another milestone this year: there are now more than 20 gigawatts of solar capacity installed across the country, enough electricity to…

Sep 01, 2015 at 16:29 | Gaurav Agnihotri

Solar energy quickly gaining attention as the most attractive form of new electricity generation as there have been some substantial investments in the solar energy sector…