Buffett Utility Buys $2.5 Billion SunPower Solar Projects – Bloomberg.

Solar energy on the rise in Germany | News | DW.DE | 01.01.2013.

Stanford creates flexible, high-efficiency peel-and-stick solar cells | ExtremeTech.

Solyndra LLC, the bankrupt solar- panel maker that received a $535 million U.S. government loan guarantee, accused Suntech Power Holdings Co. and other Chinese companies of destroying it by running an illegal cartel.

The photovoltaic industry is currently in a state of extreme contraction brought about by overbuilding, which was brought about by the belief that the feed-in tariff incentive model would continue expanding from region to region and which was exacerbat…

It’s been a year of both continued expansion and mounting challenges for the global solar industry. RenewableEnergyWorld asked solar industry executives to share their thoughts and insights on one burning question:

Suntech Power Holdings Co., the biggest solar-panel maker in the world, may have few options as it seeks to renegotiate its debt, according to Pavel Molchanov, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc.

First Solar Inc., the world’s biggest maker of thin-film panels, fell the most in five weeks after the company said as many as 232,000 panels in the field may need to be replaced.

Master Paints & Chemical Corporation of Puerto Rico is the first business of its kind to power itself with 100% renewable electricity.