It started its solar enterprise three years ago but that now accounts for half of its business.
We've been tracking the sun-powered plane known as Solar Impulse for years as it roved hither and yon.
Smaller scale solar has fit into this camp for years, though companies like Solar City have recently developed new financing models, such as leasing, to help broaden the financial support.
The sun has been in a particularly prolonged and deep solar minimum for the last couple of years, with fewer sunspots and solar storms erupting on its surface.
China has been setting larger and larger solar energy goals in recent years as it tries to increase renewable energy generation while supporting its troop of solar manufacturers.
As state and federal subsidies for installing rooftop solar systems are expected to decline in the coming years, these startups see solar securitization as way to secure a cheaper and more stable source of financing.
The declining prices for solar panels in recent years have helped to make them more attractive.
It joins more than 150 planets discovered outside our solar system in recent years.
The basic design choice people faced with solar cells a few years back was quite simple.
In the past two years, solar energy has become an especially hot spot in the clean energy sector.
The German government in 2000 ordered utilities to pay homeowners a fixed rate for 20 years for solar power sent back into the public grid.
Government policies and subsidies to drive adoption of renewable sources of energy should help the growth of the solar industry in the years to come.
The discovery of more than 330 planets outside our solar system in recent years has helped refine the number of life forms that are likely to exist.
So, was putting up a few solar panels, 5 years ago at 5 years ago prices, part of getting to grips with a century long problem early?
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Considering that German teams have won the American Solar Decathlon for three years running now, we're really proud of the Virginia Tech team for their big win!
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Some of my colleagues have observed the significant drop in capital costs of solar cells in recent years and concluded that the energy problem is solvable, if not essentially solved.
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Sometime in the next five to ten years, solar fans predict, the cost curves of solar and fossil fuel generation will cross in most parts of the world, and solar will sell itself to consumers without a subsidy.
Manufacturers were churning out lots of solar panels and continued to do so even though key markets in Europe, such as Germany, France and Italy, began to lower government subsidies for solar significantly in recent years.
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The massive decline of solar stocks over the last several years has convinced most investors of the danger of investing in solar manufacturers, even when solar installations are skyrocketing.
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The lower number comes from a solar company CEO with over 25 years in the industry and the higher with the help of a leading solar industry analyst.
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We believe that in its early history - remember, Earth and Mars, the solar system, 4.6 billion years old. 4.6 billion years old the age of Earth and Mars and the solar system.
European markets such as Germany, Italy and Spain have dominated the solar PV market over the past few years, commanding a major share of the global market for solar installations.
Solar energy is a few years behind, but the most modern systems already promise wind-like prices.
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Wal-Mart is taking a leap on a promising, lightweight solar technology that has taken years to perfect.
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The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
Dr Hathaway notes a widespread misconception that solar activity varies every 11 years "like a pure sinusoid".
And this storm, while strong, may seem fiercer because Earth has been lulled by several years of weak solar activity.
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Companies that focus on marketing and signing up customers have emerged in recent years as the solar market grows and matures.
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Solar leases have grown in popularity in recent years, however, because they require little money down and deliver solar electricity at rates lower than what people pay to their utilities, at least in the first year or so.
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Solar panel prices have been falling steadily for two years now and putting pressure on panel makers to keep profitability high (but making solar ever cheaper for customers).
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