LONDON (Reuters) – Solar energy costs will drop by half in 2009 while other low-carbon technology costs will see their pre-subsidy costs drop by 10-20 percent, renewable energy analysts said on Monday. Prices for renewable energy equipment, including wind turbines and solar panels, fell this year, but they were offset by higher financing costs in [...]

Evergreen solar is stopping production of solar panels at their factory in Devens, Mass. and shift that work to China, it was announced this week. This company has been producing silicon wafers and cells, and assmbling them into panels at the Devens factory. The bottom line turned out to be the fact that operating costs [...]