EnXco Service Corp., an EDF Energies Nouvelles company, has signed a multiyear contract with PacifiCorp to provide operations and maintenance services for six wind projects generating a total of 456 megawatts of clean electricity. 

Most of the biggest solar equipment makers may disappear in the next few years as plunging prices erode margins and drive the weakest out of business, according to Trina Solar Ltd., the fifth-largest supplier of solar panels. 

The San Diego State University Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association took high honors at the Student Summit portion of the national NECA 2011 Convention held last weekend at the San Diego Convention Center. 

NEW YORK -- China’s success in wresting control of the solar industry is erasing an advantage for U.S. suppliers led by First Solar Inc., which use a rival technology supported with $5.5 billion in government loan guarantees. 

SINGAPORE -- Chinese solar-panel makers borrow from state banks at higher interest rates than what Solyndra LLC was charged by the U.S. government this year, according to Trina Solar Ltd., China’s third-biggest maker of the equipment. 

Patti Krebs, the executive director of the San Diego-based Industrial Environmental Association, died Saturday. 

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.