On the heels of Brightsource Energy's announcement last month that it was canceling its plans to go public, SolarCity on Monday announced that it plans to conduct a registered initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock.

With recently falling feed in tariff rates affecting solar PV electricity payback, solar thermal and solar PV monitoring is becoming essential to ensure payback, says manufacturer Wattsure. Too few domestic and commercial installations understand exactly how much energy they are producing, or know soon enough when faults occur.Exeter, Devon, UK (PRWEB UK) 30 April 2012 Despite recent cuts in the

White Sands Missile Range leaders came out to break ground and to commemorate the start of a renewable energy project April 19 at the site of the new Solar Photovoltaic Array Project, the Army's largest solar array.

Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd announced Ontario's first factory assembled solar PV systems for the micro-FIT and small FIT market. Designed to reduce design and on site labor costs by up to 90% and to de-risk the installation process for project developers, the systems will

The dust has nearly settled on new German solar photovoltaic (solar PV) tariffs. The new tariffs, new degression schedule, and new limits on generation are all being widely reported in the trade press. I won't go over ground covered more effectively by others. See the links below for more information.

Blue Earth, Inc. (OTCBB:BBLU) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xnergy, Inc. signed an agreement with Biosar Energy SA ("Biosar") in connection with their recent collaboration to jointly develop and pursue utility scale solar PV projects in the United States. Biosar has an impressive history of successful solar PV project development in Europe as of 350MW EPC awarded contracts. Jointly collaborating on projects with BBLU through Xnergy, is expected to allow Biosar to enter the U.S. solar PV markets rapidly and efficiently. BBLU is expected to provide licenses, permitting, design and construction expertise that complements Biosar's equipment procurement and large-scale project execution expertise. The two parties have been working together on project proposals for 10 to 100 MW solar PV projects, prior to the signing of the agreement.

Materials used in crystalline silicon and thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) modules will surge over the next five years to nearly $42 billion worth of sales, according to AEI Consulting. That's even assuming this year is flat due to the impact of policy changes in major PV markets in Europe.

Mexico hardly registers as a must-tackle solar market, yet it may well be where concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology will bloom. SolFocus said Thursday it's clinched a deal to supply its CPV equipment to a project that will be built in 50-megawatt phases and is planned to eventually reach 450 megawatts.

It wasn't too many years ago when the installing more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of solar PV in the U.S. in one year was a pipedream. But according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, in 2011 the industry didn't just eek out more than 1 GW of solar: it blew that threshold away.