Chronicle News Service Chanderi, Mar 9: Actress Kareena Kapoor is loosening her purse strings to light up lives of needy people in a village in central India.

Ronald and Wendy Jordan are hoping the latest addition to their Cornish beef farm will be the most exciting yet. It's out in the lush meadows that surround their farm close Lostwithiel, but is unlikely to be grazing with the herd as they've recently installed a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel.

By JOE VARDON BLADE PROJECTS EDITOR Shortly after receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Toledo in December, Rosa Zartman accepted a job as a UT lab technician studying photovoltaics. About three months after starting a business designing and installing wind and solar-powered systems, Dan Klear signed up for a photovoltaics design and installation course at Owens Community ...

SMA Solar Technology AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: S92) is to strengthen its presence in North America with the foundation of a subsidiary in Canada. The site will be selected during the course of the first half of 2010. The initial investment volume is between € 5 and 10 million. SMA solar inverters from the Sunny Boy, Sunny Central and Sunny Island product ranges are to be produced for the ...

GT Solar International, Inc. (SOLR) succumbed to selling pressure on Monday, thanks to sector woes induced by fellow solar concern Yingli Green Energy (YGE)...( Read More )

A private girls’ high school in Middlebury flipped the switch last month on a 520-panel solar power system that will account for at least 25 percent of the electricity use on campus and keep an estimated 15 percent on the school’s annual utility bill.

Tehachapi has its wind farm and soon Bakersfield College will have its solar field.

World Class Flowers General Manager Glenn Cleveland, left, President Rob Gravitz, left, and Controller John Fietkiewicz, right, look over solar panels on the roof of the Egg Harbor City wholesaler, Friday March 5, 2010. The company invested in solar power to reduce its energy costs.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology Caltech are claiming a breakthrough in solar chip design that they believe will help make solar technology more efficient--and cheaper. I'm not a solar scientist, but the researchers apparently have achieved this by embedding silicon wire arrays throughout the design....

Solar energy combined with living plants converge in the Light Tree design concept from Omar Ivan Huerta Cardoso. Read more...