AltEnToday

In perhaps one of the bleaker stories I’ve read on the solar industry in recent months, Hayward, CA-based OptiSolar has announced that it will layoff 290 workers, according to a report on SFGate. This comes even as the Obama administration has come in to the executive office with promises for new spending and investment in [...]

[Read more →]

“There’s over 30 billion square feet of large, flat commercial rooftop space (in the United States). If we covered that with our solar panels, that would generate 150 gigawatts, enough electricity to generate power for 15 percent of U.S. homes.”

That’s the words of Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet (formerly VP @ Applied Materials for those [...]

[Read more →]