Topic: Solar Power Generation

Earth Day technology: the spray-on solar panel?

New firms are challenging conventional rooftop solar by using thin-film technology on windows and even indoors. On this Earth Day, conventional Chinese companies are the cost leaders. But US firms have the technical edge.

Germany's solar woes dim the promise of green jobs

Global competition and cuts to government subsidies have plunged Germany's solar-energy industry into disarray. As another manufacturer goes bankrupt, green job growth is in jeopardy.

China subsidized solar panels, US finds. Are tariffs the right response?

A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese government-subsidized solar panels were dumped in the US market, harming US manufacturers. 

Top 5 nations that use renewable energy

Here are the top users of renewables, not counting biofuels or hydroelectricity.  Numbers indicate country percentage of total global renewable usage.

Son of migrant workers, now solar CEO: Don't put tariffs on Chinese solar panels

The US government is considering special tariffs on solar panels that are imported from China. These tariffs could result in higher costs for solar energy components, endangering the vibrant US solar industry and derailing America's progress toward job creation and energy security.

Clean energy: Another solar firm lays off workers

Clean energy woes continue as US solar-panel company retools in the face of Chinese competition, despite federal clean-energy subsidies. 

Flying too close to the sun: German solar companies fall on hard times

Despite being celebrated just a few years ago as economic heroes, German solar-panel manufacturers are falling behind Chinese competitors.

Clean energy 'gold rush' in Mojave spurs backlash

Clean energy projects in California are thriving. But environmentalists worry about impact of clean energy companies on Mojave Desert.

After Solyndra's ugly fall, can solar industry still shine? [VIDEO]

Solyndra's flop is part of a global shakeout in the brutal solar manufacturing market. But that shakeout may one day help to make the solar industry competitive with coal power.

Bankruptcy of solar firm: ominous sign for industry

Bankruptcy of Solyndra, once touted by President Obama, is third failure of a US solar firm this month. Bankruptcy will serve as fuel for critics of government stimulus.

Solar panels to go 3D

Solar panels firm uses 3D technologies from fiber optics to create more efficient solar panels.

Solar power plant lawsuit thrown out in Calif.

Solar power: The state supreme court said it would not review the Sierra Club's complaint against the Calico Solar Project -- one of a string of lawsuits accusing solar power plant projects across the largest U.S. state of harming the environment.

White House solar panels to provide Obamas green power

White House solar panels: The solar panels are to be installed by spring 2011, and will heat water for the first family and supply some electricity.

In California, quest for cleaner power hits tortoise-sized speed bumps

Golden State lawmakers ask which is more important: building the nation's largest solar-energy farm or protecting a fragile ecosystem?

Will the future of green energy sprout from the dry, arid Sahara Desert?

Six western states named solar-energy hotbeds

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