Alternative Energy - Feeling the Heat

First Solar To Raise $1 Billion In Secondary Offering
Forbes - In the sizzling market for solar stocks, no company is hotter than First Solar . Its stock has soared 435% (no, that’s not a typo) since it went public at $20 a share last November. Its $7.8 billion market capitalization makes First Solar the most

PG&E signs agreement for 553 megawatts of solar power
Forbes - LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has entered into a landmark renewable energy agreement with Solel-MSP-1 to purchase renewable energy from the Mojave Solar Park, to be constructed in California’s Mojave

Scientists develop high-efficiency plastic solar cell
India Daily - A team of scientists from Korea and the United States have claimed to have created a highly- efficient organic photo-voltaic power cell that could trigger widespread use of solar energy. The team led by Lee Kwang-hee at the Gwangju Institute of

Conservation Saves More Than the Environment
Washington Post - She won the first Penny Pincher of the Year Contest in 1997 by writing about how she put solar cookers on her roof and used them to fix chicken, rice, stuffed peppers, even pasta. At the time, Meyer said she saved about $40 a month on her electric