For example, we actually backed a solar company last year, Black Swan Solar.
The solar manufacturing business has been in a bad shape over the past year as a glut of solar panels worldwide caused the panel prices to fall by about 50 percent during 2011.
The 2.5-acre property has a 51-panel solar system with a 20-year assignable contract with utility company Xcel Energy.
The solar explosion is only a year away and without question the major Chinese solar players will survive and thrive.
There is a total solar eclipse this year on 23 November but it will only be visible from Antarctica.
That's happening shortly: Rijks estimates that the women in Touloum will be cooking with solar within a year and a half.
Faced with a potentially toxic mix of crippling public spending and decreasing oil and gas production, Algeria is looking for ways to expand their energy sector into new directions, including a substantial 20 year solar plan.
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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.
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Though solar companies have seen their stocks take a significant hit so far this year, with the government taking a strong stance toward solar energy, some investors are investigating ways to gain exposure to the sector.
He figures the new tax credits could quintuple his solar business in a year.
Over a year, the solar-powered microgrid will reduce the running time of the diesel generators from 100% to 40%.
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At that speed one factory could produce a gigawatt of solar modules per year, ten times as much as the U.S. is now installing.
Dan Hershman's life changed dramatically after he photographed a spectacular aurora in Washington state in 2000, which was a peak year in the solar cycle.
In February last year a large solar flare erupted, disrupting flights over Pacific, but the bulk of the material emitted by the Sun passed by Earth.
Until then, the Catholic Church branded as heretics scientific investigators who, like the 13th-century English friar Roger Bacon, calculated that the current calendar year was over-running the solar year by a whole day every 125 years.
The roughly 20-year life of a solar panel still makes it some of the cleanest energy technology currently available.
U.S.-listed Chinese solar firms have had a terrible year.
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Cheng says the comet is likely making its first visit to the inner solar system from the Oort cloud, a reservoir of hundreds of millions of comets encircling our solar system at a distance of about a light year.
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In a year, each kilowatt of solar power saves one tonne of carbon dioxide emissions.
Nanosolar now has the ability to make 115 megawatts of solar panels per year, a company spokeswoman said.
Emerging markets such as the Japan, China and India should see a big jump in solar panel installations this year.
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Under the Grassley-Baucus bill, the solar industry would get a three-year extension for both commercial projects and home owner installations through 2010.
Dow Corning's equity earnings were down 46% on a year-over-year basis, driven by severe weakness in the solar polysilicon market.
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The prices of solar panels have fallen by more than half over the past year and a half, and that helps to reduce the price of solar electricity.
Scientists at Penn State just kicked off a two-year search for massive alien solar power stations known as Dyson Spheres.
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Italy, meanwhile, last year had announced a program of solar incentives for the 2011-2013 period, with scheduled FIT reductions over time.
Planetary Power plans to follow-up their introduction of HyGen with a truly unique solar hybrid power generator early next year that will again change the game for energy generation both on and off the power grid.
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The report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group, noted the growth between the first and second quarters of this year was particularly impressive given that there was a rush to install solar panels on residential and commercial rooftops by the first quarter as developers feared a key federal incentive would soon expire.
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He noted that the new solar capacity the country added last year accounted for 11% of all new solar installations worldwide, a marked jump from the 5-7% it historically occupied.
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