SolarWorld panels give the U.S. Navy a 1.3-megawatt photovoltaic system at its Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command complex in San Diego.

PV Solar Report’s latest look at the California residential solar market puts San Jose on top, but some smaller cities are rising fast.

Utility-scale solar developers go to court to invalidate a Riverside County, Calif., fee that could cost them millions of dollars every year.

Addressing Japan’s demand for reliable, self-sufficient energy supply, Kyocera and Nichicon join their solar and battery storage expertise in a new home energy management system.

PV keeps getting better: Alta Devices says its panel registered 23.5 percent efficiency, while Semprius, using concentrated photovoltaics, hit 33.9 percent.

Solar windows at the Organic Valley cooperative’s headquarters in Wisconsin help save on cooling and lighting, while also generating power.

Middlebury College in Vermont is aggressively pursuing its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2016 by installing an on campus solar farm consisting of 34 solar trackers.

The trend of using clean energy sources to create hydrogen continues, with Areva setting up a demonstration in Corsica that starts with solar power.

With arrays on the Law School and a parking deck, Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has commissioned the state’s largest PV system.

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to establish a competitive lease process for wind and solar development on public lands.

Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, plans to develop a 1-gigawatt solar farm on the outskirts of the city by 2030, with 10 megawatts to be completed by 2013.

An Indiana company is seeking funding for a 20-megawatt solar power plant and energy storage system that it says will deliver grid power on demand.