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If you think you need $20,000 to $30,000 in cash up front to install a solar system on the roof of your home, think again.

Upstream solar module manufacturers like Evergreen Solar and First Solar sell to developers of residential, commercial, utility scale and government segment solar projects.

A new clean-tech jobs map highlights the regional and sector diversity of the transition to a clean-tech economy.

SolarCity Corp. named David White as its chief financial officer on Thursday. The Foster City solar installation company said White comes on board as it recently passed the 5,000 customer mark after three years of operation, and continues to expand despite the broader recession.

Gov. Bill Ritter says a new solar energy company is bringing 30 more jobs to Colorado.

The vexed question of climate change has been called the biggest challenge facing our generation.

BEACH FRONT: Kaye McNabb, general manager for Nelson Airport, and Andy Booth, of Nelson Company SolarCity, with a red ribbon that signifies the predicted rise in sea levels over the next 100 years and the impact it will have on Nelson Airport which is less than 1 metre above the present sea level.

When solar power comes with free satellite TV, everyone will switch. Green Days is on the lookout for innovative sustainable projectsthroughout the Sacramento region.

As the credit crunch was starting to loosen earlier this year, one of the first glimmers of hope came from the solar energy space.

Victor Zapata of SolarCity installs solar panels at an L.A. home. Many positions at green firms involve skills that are used in other lines of work.

Solarcity CEO Lyndon Rive said in an interview Friday that he is seeing a growing market schism between the thousands of small, local solar panel installers and a "half a dozen or so" national players that can provide "a trusted brand focusing on scale and services." Rise of the Brand Names Solarcity, which the 32-year old Rive co-founded in 2006, ...

One of the problems plaguing the all electric vehicle market is the issue of charging.

A new program will allow about 1,000 Arizona Public Service Co. customers in Phoenix, including many low-income families, to put solar panels on their homes and cut their power bills without paying anything up front.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Lyndon Rive, a former member of the U.S. National Underwater Hockey team, didn't have a mother who doted on him.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman gives her speech during her campaign event on Friday Sept.

Foster City-based SolarCity is in trouble after having previously lobbied the city to approve the $3 million GoSolarSF program to subsidize solar panel installation.

Housing developer Actus Lend Lease, SolarCity, Tucson Electric Power , and financing parties National Bank of Arizona and U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation are working to create one of the nation's largest distributed, community-wide solar power systems at Soaring Heights Communities at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

In typical Kennedy-esque fashion Robert Jr. delivered a liberal-environmentalist stem winder from the main stage at Solar Power International this morning, pillorying the coal and oil industries , and calling for the "democratization" of electric power.

SolarCity's lease can make it possible for Anaheim customers to adopt solar power with zero money down and save money immediately, because the solar system typically reduces the customer's monthly electricity bill by a greater amount than the monthly lease payment.

Justin Smith, left, and Bill Carruth of SolarCity install panels on a house in Rocklin.