PHOENIX — On Wednesday, the Arizona Corporation commission launched “Arizona Goes Solar”, a new website that will serve as a one-stop shop for homeowners and businesses who want to learn more about how to adopt solar energy and technology.

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arizona Public Service Co. has issued a request for proposal that seeks solar electric systems for five high-profile government and non-profit organizations.

Los Angeles Angels 3B Brandon Wood, who has been unable to show any consistency at the Major League level, will play for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League (AFL).

PHOENIX (AP) — Electric utility regulators in Arizona will launch a website Wednesday aimed at helping the owners of homes and businesses learn more about solar technology. The project by the Arizona Corporation Commission and a dozen utilities that operate in Arizona will contain information about incentives and other efforts to encourage renewable power use in the state. The website also will …

Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground. Instead, five years after federal land managers opened up… Solar power – Energy – Solar – Business – Renewable

Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it….

What’s Your Reaction? File-This Sept.3, 2008 file photo shows high-voltage power lines cross adjacent to the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert several miles from an old mining and railroad townsite called Ivanpah, Calif.

Not a light bulb’s worth of solar electricity has been produced on the millions of acres of public desert set aside for it. Not one project to build glimmering solar farms has even broken ground.

Arizona and other Rocky Mountain states should host new alternative-energy research centers, according to a report from Brookings Mountain West.

The Arizona Fall League has announced its rosters for the 2010 season.

TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – People in Tucson are working hard to put our city at the forefront of solar energy technology. They’re about to take a huge step, but there are still a lot of questions about solar energy.

Flexible thin-film solar modules are designed to be glued to flat commercial rooftops or integrated directly into roofing membrane materials.

Electric utility regulators in Arizona will launch a website Wednesday aimed at helping the owners of homes and businesses learn more about solar technology.

MALVERN — A California company is bringing to Pennsylvania a solution to one of the roadblocks residents face when they consider going solar: the high up-front costs.

Last week we told you about the Pros’ favorite Chinese solar stocks, but domestic giant First Solar still holds the top-spot in sector-wide popularity among Wall Street’s professional money managers.

SunPower Corp. today announced that SunPower world-leading solar technology has been selected for installation at several U.S. government properties, including for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab , the General Services Administration , the Navy and the Air Force.

Phoenix – Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) action Tuesday affirmed that in less than a year, The Solar Zone at the University of Arizona Science & Technology Park (UA Tech Park) has moved from an on-paper concept to a bustling, solar-centric business zone that is advancing solar energy innovation and production.

Imagine giant fields filled with photovoltaic solar panels, soaking up rays. The best spots to put such panels are obviously sunny, with little rain. But such places often come with lots of dust. And the panels have to stay dust-free: just a seventh of an ounce of dust per square yard of panel can decrease solar power conversion by 40 percent. And panels in Arizona might get covered with four …

Washington, DC – Arizona has reached a significant milestone under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, completing weatherization work for more than 30 percent of the homes the state had planned to weatherize.

First Solar Inc. , the U.S. company planning the worlds biggest solar-power plant in China, is reasonably confident Chinas government will set electricity prices high enough to make the project viable, a spokesman said.

TORONTO–(Marketwire – 08/24/10) – W2 Energy, Inc. (Pinksheets: WTWO – News ) is pleased to announce that it has become a research affiliate of the Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy (AzRISE). AzRISE ( www.azrise.org ) is a global institute at the University of Arizona in Tucson whose mission is to transform science into large and small-scale solar energy …

Find cleaning those tables and dressers a chore or a bore? Imagine dusting objects spread out over 50 footballs fields. That’s the problem facing companies that deploy large-scale solar power installations, particularly in dust prone areas. One solution — self-dusting solar panels — could improve the efficiency of this emerging technology while making maintenance less costly and less …

The best places to collect solar energy are also some of the dustiest on Earth and beyond, a quandary that leads to inefficiencies in how well the cells are able to convert strong sunlight into renewable electricity. The solution, according to new research, is to coat solar cells with material that enables them to chase away dirt particles on their own with the help of dust-repelling electrical …

PHOTOS BY MITSU YASUKAWA/THE STAR-LEDGEREdward Fischer of Pompton Lakes waited nine years to have solar panels installed in his 1950s Cape Cod. A California company’s financing method made the project affordable. Edward Fischer of Pompton Lakes finally got solar panels…

In parts of Texas and California, a good match between renewable energy production and peak energy demands could be obtained by combining wind power with solar power, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist. A better blending of solar and wind power, combined with a way to store excess energy, should increase the use of renewable energy for California, Texas and the rest of the …

Regulators hope to pass new solar rules to stabilize the market.

MALVERN A California company is bringing to Pennsylvania a solution to one of the roadblocks residents face when they consider going solar: the high up-front costs.

NEWARK, Calif.—-PetersenDean Roofing and Solar announced today that it is set to roll out a new innovative solar mounting hardware that will improve curb side appeal, increase system output and drive down installation cost by as much as twenty percent.

BEIJING & NEW YORK—-Universal Solar Technology Inc. , a developer of solar grade ingot, wafers and high efficiency solar photovoltaic modules, announced that it has produced, shipped and been paid RMB 1,246,000 for shipments of 120,000 wafers to Sinodeu New Energy Co., Ltd.

Regulators are looking for a way to subsidize solar without the stops and starts that have hurt the construction trades.

San Luis Obispo-based solar project installer REC Solar said today that it has scored what it claims is the largest, solar installation on a carport in Arizona. According to REC, it has been awarded a second contract to design and install a 2.9 MW, solar electric carport-mounted system at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System in Tucson. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. The …

San Luis Obispo-based REC Solar has scored what it claims is the largest solar installation on a carport in Arizona.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.—-REC Solar, Inc., one of the largest installers of government, commercial, utility-scale, and residential solar projects, announced today it was awarded a second contract to design and install a turnkey 2.9 MW solar electric carport-mounted system for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System .

BEIJING & NEW YORK—-Universal Solar Technology Inc. , a developer of solar grade ingot, wafers and high efficiency solar photovoltaic modules, announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

A small crowd gathered at Wigwam Golf Resort and Spa in Litchfield Park Wednesday to view models of the flat solar panels and diagrams of the site.

Phoenix – Keats, Connelly and Associates, LLC, a wealth management firm that assists Canadians and Americans in realizing their dreams of a cross-border lifestyle, is pleased to announce that as part of its 20th anniversary celebration it has gone green by installing solar panels across its roof, reducing its power consumption by 58.8%. The entire solar program is tied to a computer system and …

OAKLAND, Calif.—-Solar energy is coming to Denver and Boulder in a whole new way for homeowners looking to save money on their electricity bills. Today, getting a solar power system for the home is just about as easy as purchasing a book on Amazon, and is more affordable than ever before.

MALVERN A California company is bringing to Pennsylvania a solution to one of the roadblocks residents face when they consider going solar: the high up-front costs.

In two of the hottest solar markets in the United States, solar energy is being built on or into parking structures. REC Solar announced that it would be designing and installing a 2.9 MW solar electric carport-mounted system for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS). In New Jersey, Solaire Corporation announced that it would be supplying solar parking canopies for a 4.1-MW solar …

With great fanfare, an Arizona-based energy company signed a preliminary agreement with China last fall to build the world’s largest solar-power plant in the Mongolian desert. Energy – United States – Business – Renewable – Solar

Rioglass Solar is the latest green energy-equipment manufacturer attracted to Arizona by federal economic incentives and the state’s abundance of sunshine.

Spanish glass-maker for solar plants to build $50 million US headquarters in Phoenix suburb Arizona – Phoenix Arizona – Energy – Renewable – Solar

Land taken out of farm production for lack of water is being proposed for solar projects. Utilities and farmers are interested.

Arizona Public Service Co. has announced plans for the largest solar installation on U.S. government property.

PHOENIX – Arizona Public Service Co. has announced plans for the largest solar installation on U.S. government…

Arizona Public Service Co. has announced plans for the largest solar installation on U.S. government property. The utility, a unit of Pinnacle West Capital Corp., will own and operate a new 15-megawatt solar power plant to be built at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale.

TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tucson based SOLON Corporation, one of the largest crystalline silicon solar module manufacturers in the U.S. and provider of turnkey solar power plants, today announced an agreement with Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) that will bring a 1.6 megawatt (MW) turnkey solar power plant to Tucson. Powered by SOLON systems and modules, the plant will provide a faster …

TUCSON, Ariz.—-Tucson based SOLON Corporation, one of the largest crystalline silicon solar module manufacturers in the U.S. and provider of turnkey solar power plants, today announced an agreement with Tucson Electric Power Company that will bring a 1.6 megawatt turnkey solar power plant to Tucson.

SunPower to build 15 megawatt plant in Arizona

SunPower Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Arizona Public Service to design and construct a 15-megawatt solar photovoltaic power system at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Arizona.

PHOENIX—-Arizona Public Service Co. will own and operate a new 15-megawatt photovoltaic power plant to be built at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Ariz. APS has hired SunPower Corp. to design and construct the solar plant, which is expected to come online in summer 2011.

By U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords For the Herald/Review, D-Tucson A leading national business magazine has crowned Arizona the nations Solar Energy King a prestigious honor that portends explosive growth in our states rush to embrace power from the sun instead of power from petroleum. Business Facilities magazine, a respected 40-year-old publication, said Arizona easily took the top ranking …

PHOENIX (KOLD) – Arizona is ranked number one by Business Facilities for both solar energy manufacturing and industry, an Arizona Department of Commerce press release stated.

Arizona Public Service is helping make it easier for Yuma County residents to go solar, with qualified solar installers, or QSI.

Business Facilities magazine calls Arizona the ”Solar Energy King” and ranked the state first in the nation for alternative-energy industry and solar-manufacturing leadership.

Investors should sell First Solar Inc. shares and buy bullish options to profit from a rally by the worlds biggest maker of solar power modules while limiting their risk on alternative energy, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said.

A major solar farm being built in Arizona by an American developer on American land. It all adds up to a brighter future and more jobs here in the U.S.

Taiwan-based solar cell maker E-Ton Solar Tech on July 30 announced Adema Technologies, a California-based mono-Si ingot maker wholly owned by E-Ton’s subsidiary Gloria Solar International Holding (GIH), has signed a contract worth NT$210 million (US$6.5 million) with Arizona-based Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to set up a 1.89MWp PV system, with completion scheduled for the end of 2010.

The University of Arizona recently installed a solar-powered,lighted crosswalk on the campus, with lights embedded in theasphalt to draw drivers’ attention to the high-trafficcrossing.

First Solar Inc., an Arizona solar-panel maker whose only North American factory is in Perrysburg Township, on Thursday reported higher-than-expected second-quarter profits and raised its full-year earnings forecast. Its profit fell to $159 million, or $1.84 a share, from $181 million, or $2.11 a share, for the same period a year ago. Revenue rose 12 percent to $588 million. Analysts had …

First Solar Inc. , the worlds biggest maker of solar power modules, said second-quarter profit fell as panels were held for use on its own projects, reducing sales to customers, and as the euro declined against the dollar.

Editor’s Note: Scientific American’s George Musser will be chronicling his experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second Solar). Read his introduction here and see all posts here . As if the news coming out of Washington about a climate bill weren’t bad enough, state budget crises are also sucking the blood out of many local renewable-energy programs, which are the …

The solar electrical power industry may be ready for its moment in the sun. It’s still true that solar sources generate less than 1% of total U.S. electricity vs. the 70% generated from industrial-age fuels such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.

The solar sector has been on fire of late, but the latest round of earnings cooled things off on Friday.

The federal Bureau of Land Managements Arizona office has 33 applications for about 60 solar energy facilities on approximately 452,519 acres throughout the state, a BLM project manager said.

The Arizona Corporation Commission voted 5-0 Tuesday to require regulated electric utilities to reduce the amount of power they sell by 22 percent by the year 2020 by helping homeowners and businesses conserve energy.

The new technology could move the United States away from its dependence on fossil fuels–if it can overcome the high price tag for the massive plants needed.

PHOENIX—-In the first program of its kind in Arizona, 32 residential solar installers became the first to achieve the designation of Qualified Solar Installer from Arizona Public Service Co.

The record-breaking Zephyr unmanned solar-powered plane touches down in Arizona after two weeks of non-stop flight.

ANALYSIS-Solar thermal seeks U.S. breakthrough

Sunny days that are common in the desert, an executive said, are perfect for the solar power systems that Amonix will manufacture at its new plant in North Las Vegas by the end of the year.

Investors should buy bullish First Solar Inc. options because the worlds largest maker of thin- film solar power modules may beat analysts estimates when it reports earnings tomorrow, Jefferies Group Inc. said.

The federal Bureau of Land Managements Arizona office has 33 applications for about 60 solar energy facilities on approximately 452,519 acres throughout the state, a BLM project manager said.

The QinetiQ Zephyr unmanned solar plane has just shattered the world record for unmanned long duration flight by completing two weeks of non-stop flight at Yuma, Arizona, easily passing the previous official 30 hour record set back in 2001 by Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4A Global Hawk . QinetiQ is a UK defence and research company that designed the Zephyr to be ultra-light, so light in fact that it is …

A solar-powered unmanned aircraft has surpassed previous endurance records today flying day and night for two weeks.

PHOENIX (AP) Luke Air Force Base is expected to get power for a majority of the base through a massive solar project by 2011. The base’s array of solar panels would be among the nation’s largest and have the capacity to run appliances in 4,250 homes at once in direct sunlight. If it were built today, the 17-megawatt solar project would increase by about 50 percent the amount of solar power on …

PHOENIX (AP) – Luke Air Force Base is expected to get power for a majority of the base through a massive solar project by 2011. The base’s array of solar panels would be among the nation’s largest and have the capacity to run appliances in 4,250 homes at once in direct sunlight.

At a meeting of representatives of the state and regional solar industry associations at Intersolar North America, the premier solar industry exhibition and conference held in San Francisco last week, the state solar industry associations agreed that it is time for Feed-in Tariffs, the policies that have proved to be wildly successful in Europe in accelerating the growth of solar and other …

A British-made, solar-powered drone has made a record-breaking flight of 14 days and 24 minutes. QinetiQ UK Technology Solutions Group reported the unmanned aerial vehicle was launched July 9 for a flight to the United Kingdom from the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.

Sunny days that are common in the desert, an executive said, are perfect for the solar power systems that Amonix will manufacture at its new plant in North Las Vegas by the end of the year.

LONDON, July 26 (UPI) — A British-made, solar-powered drone has made a record-breaking flight of 14 days and 24 minutes. Solar energy – Energy – Renewable – Solar – Business

A massive solar power project is planned for Luke Air Force Base.

An ultra-light unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and designed for military surveillance landed after two weeks aloft and setting a record for the longest unmanned flight, its manufacturer said.

With all the excitement surrounding the solar powered UAV’s record-breaking flights , we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that QinetiQ’s Zephyr has finally landed in an airfield in Arizona, 14 days and 24 minutes after take-off. This quadruples the previous unofficial world record for unmanned flight (which it set itself in 2008). This is a dramatic proof-of-concept, having flown longer …

The federal Bureau of Land Managements Arizona office has 33 applications for about 60 solar energy facilities on approximately 452,519 acres throughout the state, a BLM project manager said.

BENSON – Donald W. Kimball, who began his rural electric career more than 45 years ago and rose through the ranks to become Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Arizona’s Generation and Transmission (G&T) Cooperatives, says he’ll retire next year.

KAPOLEI, Hawaii—-REC Solar, a leading solar electric provider in the US, today announced the completion of another major commercial solar installation in the Hawaiian Islands at the Kapolei Inline Hockey Arenas on Oahu.

The federal Bureau of Land Managements Arizona office has 33 applications for about 60 solar energy facilities on approximately 452,519 acres throughout the state, a BLM project manager said.

TEMPE, Ariz.—-Aide Solar , a large-scale producer of photovoltaic modules, today announced its participation in the cooperative effort to install a 2.3 kW solar electric system using its donated 230 watt poly-crystalline black frame solar panels at the Compadre branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley in Chandler, Arizona has been completed.

A small crowd gathered Friday for the symbolic groundbreaking of the Payson school districts new solar system, baking under the same sun that would soon power most of the districts energy needs. Everybody sweltered, some sat in seats that scorched their bottoms, others reached gratefully into a cooler that held bottled water.

An unmanned solar-powered plane has set a record by remaining aloft for seven straight days, flying day and night, its designers say.

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 (UPI) — An unmanned solar-powered plane has set a record by remaining aloft for seven straight days, flying day and night, its designers say. Solar energy – Energy – Solar – England – Renewable

Los Angeles (AFP) July 16, 2010 – An ultra-light unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and designed for military surveillance and other uses has stayed in the air a record seven days, its manufacturer said Friday. The British-based firm QinetiQ said its 22.5 meter (74-foot) long Zephyr, weighing just 50 kilos (110 pounds), continued to fly over a US military testing ground in Arizona, and …

Los Angeles (AFP) July 16, 2010 An ultra-light unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and designed for military surveillance and other uses has stayed in the air a record seven days, its manufacturer said Friday. The British-based firm QinetiQ said its 22.5 meter (74-foot) long Zephyr, weighing just 50 kilos (110 pounds), continued to fly over a US military testing ground in Arizona, and …

The Zephyr solar-powered plane recently broke the endurance record for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The aircraft took off from the U.S. Army’s Yuma Providing Ground in Arizona last Friday and is still in the air. Its non-stop operation has gone five times longer than the official mark recognized by the world air sports federation. The defense and research company Qinetiq has developed the …

An unmanned solar aircraft has smashed the world record for continuous flight.

chichilalescu writes “The UK-built Zephyr solar-powered plane has smashed the endurance record for an unmanned aerial vehicle. The craft took off from the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona at 1440 BST (0640 local time) last Friday and is still in the air. Maybe we can attach some netbooks, and extend the Internet to the clouds.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A major solar provider has plans to move into Tucson in thecoming week.

A UK firm which made an unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy stay in the air a record seven days.

LOS ANGELES – AN ULTRA-LIGHT unmanned aircraft powered by solar energy and designed for military surveillance and other uses has stayed in the air a record seven days, its manufacturer said on Friday. The British-based firm QinetiQ said its 22.5m long Zephyr, weighing just 50kg, continued to fly over a US military testing ground in Arizona, and could stay aloft for another week.