Solar News

Smith College, a girls' college in Northampton, Massachusetts, recently began relying on solar power to power its student center.

The Commonwealth Solar incentive program was supposed to last four years when it was announced in 2007 - but roaring demand for subsidized solar panels in the Bay State has depleted it completely.

A team of researchers at Georgia Tech's School of Materials Science and Engineering has created a new solar power mechanism that enables the construction of "three-dimensional" solar cells.

On July 16, 2008, Evergreen Solar opened its Fort Devens, Massachusetts 450,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. It was the first phase in a plan to ramp up toward greater solar panel production, with a second phase scheduled for completion in March of 2009.