Apple will soon install a 20-megawatt solar power facility to offset the energy used by its enormous data center, located in Maiden, North Carolina. When completed, this solar array will be the largest supporting data center operations. The nearest competition is located New Jersey and owned by McGraw-Hill. The...

India is proving itself to be a major player for solar installations, as proved by a recent report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance that showed funding for solar projects shot up from $0.6 billion in 2010 to seven times that amount last year ($4.2 billion total). It’s been three years since policymakers...

Las Vegas is the most recent city to announce a large scale solar plant, utilizing new technology that allows energy generation for up to 10 hours without direct sunlight. The new solar power tower was constructed by SolarReserve as part of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project that will soon be supplying...

California is already the United States’ strongest solar market due to multiple incentives and rebates and a 33 percent renewable energy standard as well as the Million Solar Roofs campaign. Already in 2012, large utility scale solar projects are coming online which is already resulting in reduced...

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announced last week that it has added a new solar-powered hybrid cargo ship to its shipping fleet. The company said that the ship is part of its new mid-term environmental action plan known as the Nissan Green Program 2016. In a statement, Nissan said that “aiming...