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KB Home(NYSE: KBH) and SunPower Corp.(NASDAQ:SPWR) came together for a special event in Lancaster, Calif. In a little over a year and a half, KB Home has built more than 1,000 new homes powered by SunPower’s high efficiency ...  more

Driven by increasing shares of renewable energy in the electricity generation mix and by the need to update aging grid infrastructure, global investment in "smart grid" technologies rose 7 percent in 2012, totaling $13.9...  more

Canadian Solar(the "Company" or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), one of the world's largest solar companies, announced a 85 kW sales agreement with Zara Solar, a company from Tanzania specialized in solar ...  more

JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd.(NASDAQ: JASO) ("JA Solar" or the "Company"), one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, announced that all of its PV module series have su...  more

First Solar, Inc.(Nasdaq: FSLR) announced financial results for the quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2012. Net sales were a record $1.1 billion in the quarter, an increase of $236 million from the third quarter of 2012 and $415 mil...  more

Increasing energy costs, be they from electricity, propane or coal, has a major effect on a farm’s bottom line. With electricity rates steadily increasing annually, it has become critical to a farm’s future to do what...  more

At the California's Coalition for Adequate School Housing  (C.A.S.H.) annual conference in Sacramento, SunPower Corp.(NASDAQ: SPWR) announced that SunPower solar power systems installed at 92 of California's K-12 publ...  more

SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants in the U.S., announced it has completed construction of 1.15 megawatts (MW) of solar systems for the Tanque Verde Unified School District (TVUSD) and wi...  more

First Solar, Inc.(Nasdaq: FSLR) announced it set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell conversion efficiency, achieving 18.7 percent cell efficiency in tests confirmed by the U.S. Department...  more

SunPower Corp.(NASDAQ: SPWR), the Santa Clara Stadium Authority and the San Francisco 49ers announced that SunPower has been named the official and exclusive solar technology partner of the San Francisco 49ers and the new Santa Cl...  more