Markets & Policy

While some of the country’s leading retailers have solar PV installations and pilot projects in the works, Greenpeace says there’s “significant room to improve.”

PV module manufacturing costs in China remain considerably lower than other parts of the world. Efficiencies of production, product and material innovations and economies of scale continue to reduce costs, but what’s behind China’s lower costs? In a new report, IHS examines the reasons behind price disparities and the factors that continue to bring costs down.

Sonnenstromfabrik is back in business. The German solar PV module manufacturer is under new management and producing its own branded products as well as for OEM customers.

The latest information from New York City, Long Island and Westchester show a boom in installations, as Long Island reaches 139 MW of installed residential solar.

BNEF finds that while weakness in solar stocks impacted the overall environment, investment in small- to mid-scale solar was up 4% year-over-year.

Sponsored by the U.S. Energy Department, the Orange Button initiative is expected to reduce the cost of capital as a result of improved access to solar data, which would lower risks and result in savings of nearly $9 billion over the next 10 years, according to SGIP.

The German battery technology start-up boasts the storage experts behind Formula 1 team Toyota Racing’s kinetic energy recovery system (KERS). Solarwatt expects the acquisition to reduce storage system costs over the long run.

Community solar could potentially capture 2% of the U.S. solar market, according to a new report by Navigant Research.

The construction and green energy company inked the solar farm deal on the sidelines of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s visit to Iran last week.

At $2.5 billion, the new site is Wacker’s largest single investment ever. The German chemcial giant is expecting muscular growth global PV capacity to spur demand for high-grade polysilicon.