GLG News by Solar Panel Installers

The announcement by Suntech of a huge building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) project in France may be a sign that the PV maker's acquisition of MSK has gone smoothly.  It also shows the potential of the French PV market and the BIPV market as a whole.  It will be an interesting competition...

More people are familiar with the thousands of utility scale wind wind turbines that dot the American landscape as well as over 1-1/2 million solar electric and heating installations on buildings.  But another green power sight, small-scale wind, is starting to show up in the suburban and urban...

Wind energy is a global industry with U.S., European, and Asian companies and their financial partners chasing markets around the world.

Nuclear generation's lack of greenhouse gas emissions has brought new supporters for building nuclear power plants. There are currently fewer than 450 nuclear plants operating in the world today, roughly 100 of them in the United States.

The Wall Street Journal believes that creating ethanol from food crops and nonfood crops does not make economic sense.

A Pay-as-You-Throw program, or PAYT, provides a direct economic incentive to residents to reduce their waste. Under PAYT, cities would charge households for their waste collection based on the amount of waste they throw away.

The reduction of packaging by using less resources is practical economics and helps to better our environment. By reducing the use of plastics in the bottle manufacturing industry, major corporations are minimizing real or perceived risks to the consumer and helping their bottomline costs. l

The U.S. Congress's mandate to blend ethanol from corn into our gasoline supply has contributed to higher food costs. Producing ethanol from corn can be  energy-intensive and competes with our food supply. 

For the voluntary carbon offsets to be credible, an offset project should meet several criteria: the reductions should be real, measurable, verifiable, and "additional". Carbon trading in Europe for environmental projects in poorer nations are being questioned by the U.N. In the U.S. the Federal...

This article raises the question of whether the "green" movement by financial investment firms will continue given our financial situation. It cites several banks that have significant green initiatives as well as last month's kick-off of the Green Exchange by NYMEX.