North America

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.

Scientists at Purdue University have developed a formula to help PV module manufacturers to more precisely calculate the gains provided by bifacial solar panels. The team outlines...

JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") , one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, supplied its...

The Inter-American Development Bank has issued a request for expressions of interest as it seeks consultants to define a tender process for two large scale solar...