The Obama Administration recently announced its new ‘roadmap’ for large-scale solar projects, opening 285,000 acres of desert in the western United States and 20 million acres of the Mojave for solar development. The solar ‘map’ will distinguish the inadequate areas unfit for large projects and establish the better spots which have already passed environmental specifications and thus…

If you have been concerned about the rising energy costs in your area, it might be a good time to look at ways in which you can save money with solar energy. Various areas in the world run on different power sources, which most of these sources being problematic in some way. The main problem is that even energy sources that are renewable use some sort of oil power to maintain them. This auto…

The U.S. Solar Market Insight quarterly analysis reports that, in spite of the current bleak market outlook related to the recent Solyndra scandal, growth is expected to continue to increase throughout the last half of 2011. Photovoltaic solar installations apparently grew by 69 percent during the first half of 2011, when compared to the same time period…

Toys ‘R’ Us, one of the most influential toy retailers in the world, announced a plan to deck out its New Jersey distribution center with what promises to be the largest solar rooftop array in North America. Once the project is completed, 5.38 megawatt solar system is expected to produce a whopping 72 percent of the New Jersey center’s electricity needs. Apparently, around 4,387 metric tons…

U.S.- based SunEdison has successfully launched Europe’s largest single site solar plant, a 70-megawatt facility generating enough green energy to power around 17,000 homes each year. Located in Italy between the cities of Venice and Bologna, the project was approved by the Italian government in March and construction was finished last month. For a project of this magnitude to be completed within such…