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Solar lights have recently been placed on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City. According to Independent Catholic News, earlier this month “people of many faiths gathered … as part of a global interfaith climate action. Building on the momentum from the People’s Climate March in September that mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, faith groups held solar-lantern events in thirteen countries to call for progress towards an international agreement on climate change.” The gatherings took pla …

If you ever had to put up a fence on a common border with your neighbor, you will know how sensitive any kind of improvement to your property can be to your neighbors. What can neighbors argue about? Almost everything. So it should come as no surprise that there are petty and some not so petty arguments about homeowners placing home solar panels on their roofs. Take this dispute in Pennsylvania where a homeowner placed a solar array in his backyard. There has been a huge pushback from hi …

Supplies for polysilicon used for manufacturing solar panels have stabilized and prices are not expected to decline further. The material, used in crystalline silicon PV cells was in oversupply in 2013 and some suppliers of polysilicon were forced to shutter their doors. Production was at a maximum which lead to this surplus. With demand and supply relatively steady, prices have now stabilized. According to PV Magazine prices crashed between 2011 and 2013 when the global polysilicGreentech …

LED is not a stranger to us as they have been around us already for many years. TV screens, LED bulbs for your home, and the back light of phone are all using the LED technology. But when three scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Physics earlier this month started working on blue light-emitting diodes, or LEDs in the 1990s, not many could ever imagine what changes it could bring to the underdeveloped world. Currently, in developing countries, many families are still unable to be connected …

Why is it that everybody has heard of SolarCity but few outside the solar industry have heard of Vivint Solar? That changed on October 1 when the New York Stock Exchange welcomed Vivint to the ranks of publicly-traded companies. Vivint Solar is the second largest installer of solar panels in the United States. The initial public offering was at $16 per share, valuing the Blackstone Group LP -backed company at $1.68 billion. Don’t you wish you had some of the action? Now that the share price …