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Residential Solar Costs Decline, Installations Rise, Report Confirms

December 17, 2011 by Chip Gaul
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 As we near the end of a tumultuous year for solar PV, the latest report from GTM/SEIA indicates there is more momentum that ever for residential solar. A number of factors - the growth in solar leases, the glut in global panel production, and the complex web of economic incentives - have already made this the strongest year in US... [read more]

Can we restore U.S. leadership in solar manufacturing?

March 6, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The United States created the solar cell industry and literally launched it into space 50 years ago.   Solar PV is going to be one of the largest job-creating industries of the century, projected to grow “from a $20 billion industry in 2007 to $74 billion by 2017” (see “Invented here, sold there”). But thanks to conservative... [read more]