The U.S. renewable energy laboratory explains that “finding the right defect” can in layers adjacent to the cell can have the counter-intuitive result of increasing solar cell efficiency.

Actor Mark Ruffalo and Tea Party Activist Debbie Dooley have joined the protest, which joins official appeals to the changes announced shortly before Christmas.

Actor Mark Ruffalo and Tea Party Activist Debbie Dooley have joined the protest, which joins official appeals to the changes announced shortly before Christmas.

Actor Mark Ruffalo and Tea Party activist Debbie Dooley have joined the protest, which joins official appeals to the changes announced shortly before Christmas.

The U.S. solar industry added 35,000 jobs from November 2014 to November 2015, its third year of 20% annual growth. Installation makes up more than half of U.S. solar jobs.

GTM Research’s latest report expects 1500-volt architecture to take over the utility-scale solar market over the next few years, citing clear balance-of-systems cost advantages.

While there is little direct causation between the rise of solar and the fall of coal, GTM Research Director of Solar Research MJ Shiao notes that the fall of coal creates opportunities for renewable energy.

The North Carolina-based PV developer plans to equip more than 1.4 GW of solar PV with Skytron’s monitoring systems by the middle of this year, including both retrofits and newly built plants.

A new report by the U.S. government’s NREL and Berkeley Lab finds a 3.6% reduction in fossil fuel generation and up to US$3.9 billion in net savings for electricity customers in 2013, as well as reduced water use and the creation of 200,000 jobs.

Preliminary rulings in the second administrative reviews of 2012 anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on PV cells from China suggest lower rates, but experience from the first review gives no cause to celebrate yet.