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Americans overwhelmingly support the use and development of solar energy and federal investments in the solar industry, according to a new national poll. These and other findings were reported in the 2011 SCHOTT Solar Barometer&...  more

Chrysler Group LLC, working in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will deliver five demonstration fleet Ram 1500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) pickup trucks to CenterPoint Energy's electric utility in H...  more

Marubeni Corporation and DONG Energy entered into an agreement whereby Marubeni acquires a 49.9% stake in the 172MW Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm. Completion of the transaction was conditional on, inter alia, certain matters ...  more

REC Solar, a provider of home, commercial and government solar electric systems in the United States, has teamed up with GE Energy Industrial Solutions, a supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies, to distribut...  more

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA, SPWRB), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, announced the grand prize winner of the company's 'Solar Discovery Game,' an ...  more

Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL) ("Trina Solar" or the "Company"), a integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, announced the establish...  more

A123 Systems (Nasdaq:AONE), Hydro Québec, and the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, on behalf of the University of Texas at Austin (UT) today announced that they have settled their patent disputes regarding lithi...  more

An advanced solar-powered vehicle built by Solar Energy Racers, which is run by employees from the Swiss-based Bühler Group, took ninth place and the best newcomer award in the Veolia World Solar Challenge trans-Australia race fro...  more

The 2012 Toyota Prius Plug-in, which will go on sale in Spring of 2012, earned Decisive magazine’s annual Urban Green Vehicle of the Year Award. The three Urban Vehicles of the Year award winners and finalists were announced after...  more