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Japan: The Land Of The Rising Sun?
So it seems like Japan is going to try and accomplish what former Prime Minister Koreyiko Takahasi was unable to achieve back in the 1930′s with his Keynesian experiment. Regardless of how current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts at reflation play out I do hope that he doesn’t meet the same fate as Mr. Takahasi who was [...]
OnForce Solar Acquires Stake in Lita Brothers General Construction
OnForce Solar has acquired a stake in Lita Brothers General Construction, a commercial and residential roofing company located in Bergenfield, New Jersey. The purchase positions the company to meet the needs of its present and future customers in New York, which is one of the fastest growing solar energy markets in the United States. “Since [...]
Another Milestone for California Solar
The Germans would say tja, but by U.S. standards, it’s impressive. The California Solar Initiative cracked 1,000 megawatts of installed solar before the close of 2012, putting the program more than halfway toward its goal of getting 1,940 MW of solar power on homes and businesses around the state by 2016, regulators said on Thursday [...]
Saudi Arabia: Moving Towards A Solar Future
This should help pave the way for utility scale solar power project developers to line up some financing and make a pitch to the powers that be in Riyadh who are looking to attract over $100 billion worth of solar investments into the Kingdom: Saudi Arabia will form a company to buy power from generators [...]
France’s Plan to Revive it’s Solar Industry
France has vowed to offer more financial support to small solar power farms (more than 2 billion euros in investments) to save the dying solar industry. In the past two years, 15,000 jobs were lost—there were 32,500 jobs in 2010 and a mere 18,000 in 2012. “Many jobs were lost because of the (former) government’s [...]
5 Surprising Ways Solar is Being Used
As planet Earth’s resources become more depleted over time, alternative energy sources gain priority. Solar power is not a new idea, but it is gaining more traction in an era of environmental concern. It works through the use of panels that absorb the sun’s light over the course of a day and then convert it [...]
Solar Industry Survives The Fiscal Cliff
The big renewables winner in the fiscal cliff legislation was wind. But the solar industry was also spared some pain. Wind’s $0.022 per kilowatt-hour production tax credit (PTC) was extended through the end of 2013. Crucial language changes allow wind and geothermal projects “under construction” by year-end to qualify for the incentive instead of only [...]
Who Pays for Solar?
We wrote before about an upcoming study from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to determine the overall cost-benefit of installing solar. Well in advance of that study, the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in California are coming out swinging, with populist rhetoric about solar’s unfair impact. But just because a utility says something, doesn’t make it [...]
Looking Back: Solar in 2012
Looking back on the solar in 2012, U.S. manufacturers have struggled to stay afloat amidst the solar trade issues with China, but it wasn’t as bad for the rest of the industry. Despite the attempt to promote U.S. manufacturing of PV by cracking down on Chinese dumping of solar products below fair market value, Chinese [...]