North America

U.S. thin-film manufacturer First Solar has insisted its decision to reach a $350 million settlement with shareholders who claimed they were misled by the company over...

The U.S. would need 1,500 GW of utility-scale solar power and 500 GW of rooftop solar to reach 100% renewable energy by 2050, according...

The perilous nature of oil-dependency has once again been demonstrated by the escalating crisis in the Gulf since U.S. president Donald Trump ordered the drone attack...

An international research team coordinated by the American Institute of Physics claims to have successfully applied the clear-sky methodology developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National...

Canada will soon be welcoming the largest operating solar energy project in the country—and it is also being hailed as “one of the largest...

Alta Devices has not located a white-knight investor to save the company and resume its PV cell production. Early in December, pv magazine broke the story that Hanergy-owned...

Federal officials plan to approve a massive solar farm with energy storage in the desert outside Las Vegas, paving the way for a $1-billion...

Enel, through its US renewable energy company Enel Green Power North America, has started operations at two renewable energy plants in the United States...

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities’ community solar energy pilot program will have 45 new projects in the coming years, as the board...

At the end of 2018, there were 690 ground mounted utility-scale solar power plants totaling greater than 25GWac in commercial operation in the United...

The solar market in the U.S. added 2.6 gigawatts of solar photovoltaics in the third quarter of 2019, with total solar capacity — which...

For a long while, the job of solar power was to deliver daytime electricity – starting to pump the juice in earnest somewhere around 10 a.m., and finishing at 2 p.m. And every single drip of electricity was needed to be used to get investors into the project. This reality is no longer. For instance – we’re now talking about how in Minnesota overbuilding solar power and dumping “extra” electricity is cheaper than seasonal storage and gas over the coming decades. This ain’t your parent’s solar power.