Californians Bask In Solar Energy As Sales Soar Sacramento
(UPI: Mon, 08 Jan) Soaring energy costs, environmental consciousness and financial incentives have combined to make solar panels part of the California housing landscape. Homeowners see solar panels as a way to be green and save some green, The New York Times said.

Report: Mass. could be solar leader
(BizJournals: Mon, 08 Jan) In a pair of recent reports by Newton-based Topline Strategy Group, founder Jonathan Klein proposes that the combination of available sunlight, cost of electricity and available subsidies have New England poised to become a national leader in solar energy over the next decade.

India joins core group to improve solar energy convertibility
(Deccan Herald: Sat, 06 Jan) India has joined the core group of countries to develop the technology and share expertise for improving the Solar Energy Convertibility efficiency, Union New Renewable Energy Secretary V Subramanian said.

Interest in solar energy rising in the East
(The News Journal: Sun, 07 Jan) Last winter, Bob May and his father installed 60 solar panels, largely paid for by the state, in the yard of his southern New Jersey residence. These days, the electric meter in front of his house is running backward, as he generates so much solar power he's selling what he doesn't use back to the electric company.