Recently in Photovoltaic (PV)
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A California company breaks its own world record for photovoltaic cell effiiciency.
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One of California's largest rooftop solar companies plans an IPO.
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An electrical hazard on some solar modules knocks down First Solar's stock value.
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Sungevity CEO Danny Kennedy's new book is a valuable introduction to your rooftop solar future
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Sumitomo buys a large stake in Riverside County's Desert Sunlight solar facility.
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One of San Francisco's most popular museums is getting a renewable energy makeover.
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From a prestigious Swiss engineerng university comes a potential breakthrough in inexpensive and productive solar panels.
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California's toxic substances agency and environmental groups wrangle over how best to dispose of old solar panels.
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Thin-film solar company First Solar may be in line to sell developer NExtEra a gigawatt worth of solar panels.
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A Bay Area company may have a rooftop solar solution for commercial buildings that can't support conventional panels
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It turns out Americans pay more for renewable energy per kilowatt-hour than Germans do, and yet Germany's solar industry is growing by leaps and bounds compared to ours.
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In August, Germany installed 320 megawatts of rooftop solar -- about a quarter of California's total capacity.
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PG&E's cumbersome solar grid hookup process is dealing a serious financial blow to a school district in a small Mendocino County town.
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Developers of a large photovoltaic array on former farmland get good news from their bank.
Government:
You might imagine a facility of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) going off the grid in the back of beyond. But a USFS facility is now generating all of its own power with solar panels in the middle of the suburban San Gabriel Valley.
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The U.S.'s main solar trade association ranks commercial firms by their commitment to rooftop solar.
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PG&E will buy power from a new photovoltaic generating station near Harris Ranch, if the CPUC gives them the thumbs up.
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First Solar will be selling more Central Valley solar power to Northern California
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L.A.'s Department of Water and Power's solar program is growing fast.
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A Silicon Valley firm envisions a solar future in which patient robots quietly turn solar panels to face the sun.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
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