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70% Decline in Solar Panel Prices

Great news for consumers. Solar panels prices have fallen a whopping 70% in the past 2 years. However, solar manufacturing companies are being required to reconsider their old ways of doing business. Only those with the lowest manufacturing costs can continue to profit in this new solar landscape. This is causing a few of the [...]

Solar Power Brings Night-Time Football to Kenya Slum

AFP, Dawn.com, April 8, 2011 – Thanks to a new solar lighting system donated by China’s Yingli Green Energy Holding Company, the youth in Mathare, Kenya can hold games and practices late into the night. Shielded from from the heat and glare of harsh equatorial sun, teams are able to run longer and see better, [...]

GTM Research Predicts US Solar Growth

Utilities in the US will likely be a large source of growth in global solar production over the next five years. Responding to government-mandated renewable portfolio standards and incentive reductions in former big players like Spain and Germany, U.S. utilities are predicted to turn increasingly to solar solutions. We recommend keeping up to date with [...]

Beijing Egg-House

Dai Haifei, a 24-year-old architect in Beijing, China, found an ingenious solution to live rent-free. He built himself a mobile egg-shaped house that is powered by the sun. The 6-foot-high structure, which is small enough to fit on a sidewalk, is made of bamboo strips, wood chippings, sack bags, and grass seed that’s expected to [...]

MD Couple Basks in Savings From a 19-Year-Old Solar System

CENTREVILLE, Md — Concerns about climate change and a new president pushing green energy are breathing life into renewable power. But the Schnoebelens were solar pioneers when Jimmy Carter installed solar panels in the White House as a symbolic step toward energy independence. In 1980, the couple bought 25 acres a mile off Coon Box [...]