Solar Technology

October 14, 2011

GE moves the thin film goal post…

GE announced today a 400megawatt thin film plant to be constructed in Colorado. The panels will apparently have more efficiency, less weight and larger surface area […]
October 11, 2011

$1 per watt solar panels are history…we’ve dipped below!

This solar blog was started in 2005 when prices for solar modules hovered near the $3 per watt range. Ever since the beginning of time, pundits […]
September 1, 2011

Plunging solar panel prices take first victims…

The victims list has begun… Solyndra filing for bankruptcy despite a large pipeline, and DOE guarantees… Why? Because while China was pumping tons of money into […]
April 18, 2011

The storage equation…

Power= Creation+Management+Storage. I posted an article about this back in 2005 which discussed the relational equation between these three very distinct, yet related components of the […]