GLG News by Solar Panel Installers

Zero-landfilling is a goal that is now reality. GM is one of the leading major manufacturing companies demonstrating that corporate plants can lower disposal costs by 100% recycling and reuse of their wastes. By performing this task, GM lowers their carbon footprint.  

Since the 1970s, corporations are required to meet environmental regulations in air, water, solid and hazardous wastes etc. Over the years, many companies eventually developed strategic plans to implement pollution prevention, that is reduce wastes at the beginning of the manufacturing...

Despite trepidations over the lapsing of US federal incentives, the domestic photovoltaic market continues to consolidate to take advantage of better economy of scale.  Photovoltaic installations in the US now number over 10,000 a year, growth that will continue to increase once new federal incentives...

This story on a US based installer setting up shop in Mediterranean Europe is a good example of the challenges of dealing with what was until recently two of the hottest PV markets in the world for 2009 - Spain and the United States.  The dynamics of what the changes in incentives will do and how...

The trend by corporations is to demonstrate in some form that they are a green company. Going green can have numerous definitions from a product that is eco-friendly to reducing a company's carbon footprint by use of alternative energy.

Feed in tariffs, a way to provide measured funding for photovoltaic and other renewable energy systems, has been successful in bringing these technologies to market.  Paying only for performance, requiring outside financing, steadily reduced rates and caps on rate impacts have enabled solar and...

The Pickens Plan is not bad in itself, being grounded in the reality of changing markets and led by a businessman who has actually invested in the process.  What may be more important is that the Plan could shake the monopolistic grip that fossil and nuclear energy has on our infrastructure and...

The media is saturated by energy companies promising a painless path to continued cheap supplies, and cleaner to boot.  Meanwhile, T Boone Pickens has burst upon this complacency with a campaign that act as a wake up call to drastically shake up how we guzzle our fuel.  What ever one thinks...

We are mesmerized by the present high price of oil, but that's only a part of the picture.  Natural gas and coal prices, water scarcity and a steadily declining large household base will essentially spell the beginning of the end of the housing, vehicle and development sprawl.

I am finding a slight case of irrational exuberance seeping into the photovoltaic prediction industry.  The latest is a prediction reported in the Financial Times of a fivefold increase of photovoltaic production by 2010.  The industry will grow nicely, but not at this frenetic rate.