 Two SoCal Collegiate Teams Selected to Compete in DoE Solar Decathlon 2013U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu has announced that three universities from Southern California-Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Southern California-have been selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013. (Source : Solar Daily)
 SOLON Installs Solar Capacity at Biosphere 2SOLON has announced the installation of a 10 kilowatt (kW) pilot project of the SOLquick commercial rooftop solution at Biosphere 2, a unique ecological research and teaching facility located north of Tucson. (Source : SolarDaily)
 OPEL Solar Supplies GES USA with PV Tracker SystemsOPEL Solar and OPEL Technologies has announced that it has completed delivery of 4.6 Megawatts ("MW") of its TF-850 market leading solar trackers to Global Energy Service U.S.A. ("GES"). This is OPEL's largest order in its history, furthering OPEL's sales progress. The trackers were chosen for two solar fields being built by GES in California. GES specializes in full service solar projects, providing engineering, site preparation and site construction. (Source : SolarDaily)
Former Xcel Energy chief now BrightSource board chairman California concentrating solar power giant BrightSource Energy, Inc. appointed former Xcel Energy chief executive Richard Kelly as its new board chairman to take over the position held by John Bryson, who was appointed as the new United States commerce secretary by President Barack Obama. (Source : Ecoseed)
 Investment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6 Billion in 2011First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power. According to the UN, over 600 million Africans currently do not have access to electric power. (Source : SolarDaily)
 SEIA and the Solar Alliance Merge to Drive Effective Policy for SolarThe Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association for the solar energy industry, has announced that it has officially merged with the Solar Alliance, an advocacy organization committed to establishing solar policies at the state level. Effective immediately, the Solar Alliance will operate under the SEIA brand in an effort to present a unified solar industry voice in all advocacy efforts at the state level. (Source : SolarDaily)
 2012 Global Solar Market OutlookAccording to the current development, EnergyTrend, TrendForce's green energy division expects 2012 to be the year for the global solar industry to face an arduous challenge and weed out the weak. (Source : SolarDaily)
 Solar Industry Cheers PUC RulingThe Public Utilities Commission of the State of Hawai'i (PUC) recently issued an order denying several proposals by Hawai'i's investor-owned utilities that would have raised barriers to homes and businesses installing renewable energy systems like rooftop solar. (Source : SolarDaily)
 Recurrent Energy Secures $250M Financing For 200MW of Solar PV ProjectsRecurrent Energy has announced that it has secured a four-year construction revolver credit facility of $250 million from Mizuho Corporate Bank. The facility will support the construction of 20 solar photovoltaic (PV) projects throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. The credit facility is one of the largest non-recourse solar financings for a solar PV portfolio in North America. (Source : SolarDaily)
 Discovery of a 'dark state' could mean a brighter future for solar energyThe efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased, according to new research on the mechanisms of solar energy conversion led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Zhu and his team have discovered that it's possible to double the number of electrons harvested from one photon of sunlight using an organic plastic semiconductor material. (Source : SolarDaily)
 US Solar Energy Industry Sets Record for InstallationsThe U.S. solar energy industry achieved a new record for installations and growth in the third quarter of 2011 thanks to utility-scale project completions, a strong residential market, effective policies and the plummeting price of solar panels, according to a new report released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). (Source : SolarDaily)
 Renewable Energy to be Fastest Growing Market in MalaysiaGlobal Information (GII) presents "Global Solar Power Market" by Frost and Sullivan. The implementation of feed-in-tariff (FiT) policy will bring the required momentum to accelerate solar PV market growth in Malaysia. Malaysia aims to become the second largest producer in solar manufacturing by 2020 and is emerging as the favored country for new PV manufacturing units. (Source : SolarDaily)
 Solar power development in US Southwest could threaten wildlifeGovernment agencies are considering scores of applications to develop utility-scale solar power installations in the desert Southwest of the United States, but too little is known to judge their likely effects on wildlife, according to an article published in the December 2011 issue of BioScience. (Source : SolarDaily)
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