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  • Report: U.S. solar market to grow 119 percent in 2016

    The U.S. solar market is set to grow a staggering 119 percent this year, says GTM Research in its U.S. Solar Market Insight 2015 Year in Review, published in conjunction with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Led by the utility-scale segment, GTM Research forecasts 16 gigawatts of solar willRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Report looks at huge potential of concentrated solar power across the globe

      The concentrated solar power (CSP) industry is bound to be one of the biggest and most efficient in the coming times ahead. If utilized to its full potential, it could end up providing for the world’s 25 percent energy needs by 2050. Currently there is 679 MW of installedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Here’s a report on how utilities are planning for the distributed energy future

      Electric utilities are facing a variety of challenges because of rising amounts of solar, storage and other distributed energy technologies on their systems. In response, some of them are speeding their integration planning efforts. That is the finding of a new paper from Black & Veatch and the SolarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Researchers improve efficiency of organic PV cells to 15 percent

    A patented breakthrough by researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology improves the efficiency of organic photovoltaic cells by 50 percent, and could someday provide a huge boost its viability to become a major source of solar energy. The researchers recently published their findings in the Journal of Applied Physics. Organic photovoltaicRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • U.S. adds more solar capacity than natural gas for first time ever

    Solar capacity records were made to be broken at this point. In yet another record-breaking year, the solar industry in the United States installed 7,286 MW of solar PV in 2015. This number is more significant for solar than just topping its own previous record — or the first time ever, solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine