Ocracoke—a popular tourist destination in the Outer Banks of North Carolina— is addressing weather-related power outages with a...

Business media outlets have solar investors running for cover in the wake of SunPower’s revised earnings forecast. San Jose...

Battery storage is the name of the game in 2016. Will the solar dream of “cutting the cord” become a reality? In a January 2016 article...

GRID Alternatives is a non-profit organization founded to bring high-tech solar technology to low-income homeowners who need the cost...

Residential Battery Systems (RBS) are the topic of much excitement and speculation in the solar world recently. Tesla, the electric car...

Warren McKenna, the Manager of Farmers Electric Coop in Kalona, Iowa is a soft spoken fellow. However, it only took one sentence to bring...

Tesla’s announcement of their new Powerwall stationary battery created quite a whirlwind of excitement. As the dust begins to settle and...

No one can deny that the solar industry is booming. There may be disagreements as to why…opponents claim that solar is too dependent on...

The Chinese government has set an ambitious new goal of 17.8GW of new installed solar capacity for this year. Can they reach it, and if...

Far-left environmental activists and far-right small government conservatives may seem like odd allies, but when it comes to making...

Over the last 10 years, there has been a great deal of debate over residential solar and its impact on the value of homes. Up until...

For many years now, I have had the pleasure of attending renewable energy expos, solar industry conventions and meetings of the “solar...

Since the advent of modern solar technology, common wisdom has always taught us that solar panels should face the equator. For those of...

Photovoltaic (PV) modules produce DC electricity, and how that DC power is converted to grid-quality AC is one of the most hotly debated...

Enphase, whose microinverter took the solar industry by storm in 2008, has continued to dominate the microinverter market ever since....

What is solar grid parity? Solar power grid parity occurs when generating solar energy costs the same as electricity from the grid,...

A feed-in tariff (FIT) is a system wherein producers of solar energy sell the energy they produce to the local utility, at a price based...

The Solar Industry Most people don’t know that more people in the U.S. are employed in the solar industry than in steel. And according to...