Residential solar company OneRoof Energy announced in a release, the appointment of Andrew Duggan as chief operating officer. 

LONDON -- Britain’s solar capacity shot up more than 10-fold last year, as installers targeted home rooftops to reap incentives the government is working to restrain, making a deeper cut in the subsidy more likely. 

The U.S. Green Building Council awarded the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold rating for a recent redevelopment project. 

LOS ANGELES -- A long-running disagreement between federal agencies and Southern California Edison has stalled millions of dollars in renewable energy projects expected to provide power to facilities in California's national parks and forests. 

CHICAGO -- A Chicago suburb on Wednesday became one of the first communities in Illinois to begin installing “smart meter” grid technology for all its electricity consumers -- even as opponents with privacy and health concerns sought a court order halting the $22 million project. 

CONSTANCE, German -- LDK Solar Co.’s plan to buy Germany’s Sunways AG provides China’s second-largest solar-panel maker with access to new technology and a distribution network in the world’s biggest photovoltaic market. 

As November’s general election creates numerous possibilities for policy change both in San Diego and across the country, a group of executives from companies and groups involved in the expansion of solar energy systems discussed the state of their economies at a Daily Transcript roundtable. 

In the aftermath of the summer bankruptcy of the government-backed California solar panel maker Solyndra, expectations among renewable energy wonks, who describe the company’s failure as an outlier among many successes, remain generally high. But some policy research analysts are more skeptical — not doubtful, but still skeptical. 

When entering San Diego's business community about 30 years ago, Clint Walker’s aim had nothing to do with being in the solar business. His success as the co-founder and president of Southwestern Solar Systems since his entrance to the business in 2009 came about in much the same fashion his other major endeavors have. 

When Cecilia Aguillon, director of marketing and government relations for Kyocera Solar Inc., immigrated to the United States from El Salvador as a teen, she grew into a young adult with a lofty goal in mind: to save the world. 

Some people look at buildings and see a combination of wood, steel and mortar with a number of things inside to make them more comfortable and workable — lighting, computers and maybe a few windows, even if they can't be opened.