The Obama administration is moving to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly flooding the U.S. market with government-subsidized ones.  More »

Keep an eye out tomorrow for an announcement from the Commerce Department, which is expected to slap tariffs on imports of some Chinese solar products.  More »

A shakeout that is rattling the solar panel industry has sent First Solar, once among the industry’s biggest and strongest companies, to a big quarterly loss.  More »

The government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.  More »

I participated last week on a panel at the New York Times Energy For Tomorrow conference in New York City. My session, the Closing Plenary, which you can watch here, focused on the issue of energy subsidies. Our session chair, Joe Nocera, queried whether it made sense to subsidize all of our different energy sources. [...]  More »

Solar roof shingles, the first of their kind, are now available in Texas, courtesy of the Dow Chemical Company, according to a company announcement. Dow announced Tuesday it had launched its solar shingles in California and Central Texas, allowing customers to buy and install the power-generating roof shingles through authorized dealers. Three Texas roofing companies [...]  More »

First Solar Inc. is laying off 2,000 workers and closing its plant in Frankfurt, Germany, in response to waning demand for solar panels and increased competition from China.  More »

The U.S. Treasury Department was given one day to complete its review of the government’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra LLC, the bankrupt solar-panel manufacturer, to accommodate an Energy Department press release, according to a Treasury audit.  More »

The U.S. Commerce Department recently announced import tariffs on Chinese solar panels after declaring that Beijing illegally subsidized manufacturing.  More »

The Senate on Thursday failed to advance a measure that would repeal tax incentives for the nation’s biggest companies and use the money to pay for extending clean-energy tax credits.  More »

President Obama made a firm call Thursday for the Senate to approve a measure repealing some of the oil and gas industry’s tax incentives, just ahead of a high-profile vote in the upper chamber.  More »

With its relentless sunshine and open desert spaces, Mexico seems made for solar power.  More »