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Southern California has gotten the bulk of the solar industry’s attention lately as a group of solar thermal projects weave their way through state regulatory agencies. But photovoltaic activity is about to kick up farther north as a project set......

It's not in China, nor in Germany. It's not in Spain, and it certainly isn't in Texas. The largest solar thermal project in the world is being built in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger crowed Wednesday morning to raucous applause at......

The weather was nippy and the casinos of Primm were looming within eyeshot, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was still in a jolly mood Wednesday morning. After all, the largest solar thermal project in the world was breaking ground on his......

San Bernardino and Riverside counties have gotten the bulk of the glory lately when it comes to proposed solar power projects -– see the BrightSource Ivanpah installation and the Solar Millennium Blythe plant -- but now it's San Luis Obispo's......

AeroVironment Inc., the Monrovia maker of electric vehicle chargers, is planning to go national in a big way with a new distribution deal. Milbank Manufacturing Co. of Kansas City, Mo., known for its electrical metering equipment, will sell...

Constellation Energy Group is reportedly in the final stages of takeover negotiations that could see it absorbed by the Chicago-based power company Exelon Corp., a deal that would usher Baltimore's last Fortune 500 company headquarters out of town. For...

New York Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo savored victory on election night almost two weeks ago. Now he's getting ready to govern. Cuomo's transition teams are expected to begin meeting as early as next week. The transition teams are meant to help the...

The extreme heat we've been having could show up soon as an extreme energy bill, but for some customers it might not be as bad as you think. If you're a Reliant Energy monthly flex plan customer who paid $500 last July, you can expect to pay about a...

The Houston Zoo took it's the first step towards utilizing the power of the sun to energize its transportation needs. On May 28, a team of 6 volunteer solar experts from NRG Energy and Reliant Energy joined the Houston Zoo staff to convert the first...

Photovoltaics producer First Solar Inc. sold a 21-megawatt Riverside County solar facility to leading power company NRG Energy Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the company said today. First Solar, based in Tempe, Ariz., is building the project in Blythe...

Behind the NRG Energy Plant in northwest Houston, is where the city of Houston hopes to be home for the largest solar farm in Texas. Using the latest in photovoltaic technology, the proposed project will have the capacity to generate approximately 10...