FollowLast week’s Get Some Sun webinar featured Galen Barbose from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab discussing the results of Tracking the Sun, an assessment of the changing cost of going solar across the U.S. This is the fourth edition of this annual report, and each year we eagerly await its release to see hard data on just what kind of cost reductions the U.S. solar industry has achieved. This edition delivered in a big way . . .
Examining more than 115,000 PV systems installed between 1998 and 2010 across 42 states, the report’s key findings include:
Researchers at a Japanese firm have successfully used moving mirrors that track the sun throughout the day to develop a solar power device with double the generating power of current models.
