Listen to this week's Energy Show as we speak with Neal Dikeman on the changes happening with clean tech investing.

Everyone is looking forward to a return to some degree of normalcy as we recover from the corona virus pandemic. But it is very hard to...

Entrepreneurs are the job engine in the United States. Many of the companies founded by today’s entrepreneurs have products or services...

The solar industry is one of our most obvious success stories. Our industry directly employs 261,000 people. We generate energy that is...

We don’t call it the “Solar Coaster” for nothing. U.S. solar installations will hit 16 GW in 2016. These solar installations are having a...

I typed the words “free solar” into Google and got 747,000,000 hits in half a second. We all know that solar systems are not free. But...

Running a successful solar business isn’t easy. Whether it’s a small local installer working on one system a week on neighborhood homes,...

The most conspicuous driver of the residential solar industry’s growth has been large, national-scale solar installers. Their market...

It’s encouraging to see how much safer — and less expensive — solar equipment has become over the past dozen years. These improvements...

Your right to go solar and get full credit for the electricity you send back to the grid is threatened. Not just in California and...

Solar start-ups are hot again — especially those that address the “downstream” part of the value chain: installer services, customer...

Great article in Forbes about net metering. I’ve come to the realization that the fundamental utility business model must change —...

Let’s face it, a rooftop solar power system isn’t cheap. But two recent developments have completely changed the economics for buying a...

Description of a Typical Solar System Solar power systems turn sunlight into electricity. Silicon wafers capture photons from sunlight...

With all the bad press about the renewable energy industry, it’s easy to miss the fact that we are moving steadily down the road towards...

There was a solar eclipse yesterday. The kind in the sky where the moon partially obscures the sun. Not an eclipse of the Solar Industry....

It’s Econ 101. Prices for solar modules will fall. But not smoothly…nor painlessly. Except for the highest efficiency suppliers...

Did anyone notice the juxtaposition of two utility news blurbs in the August 8th, 2007 Mercury News? Are we really that naive that we...

For the past few years I’ve been hearing about how efficient and less expensive it is to install solar power systems in Germany. Many...

Ponder these four realities when you consider a new solar technology: Start your due diligence on a 10 year old roof. It is an extremely...