The Most Read Article of 2012:

The Question: What is the Most Difficult Issue Facing the Solar Industry?
by RenewableEnergyWorld.com Editors

Published November 15, 2012 

It's been a year of both continued expansion and mounting challenges for the global solar industry. RenewableEnergyWorld asked solar industry executives to share their thoughts and insights on one burning question: 

 
 
Read the entire article here to see all of the responses. There were 32 industry responses in all and 155 comments.


The Most Read Blog of 2012:

Top 10: Ten Largest Solar PV Companies
by Oliver Strube, (former) Publisher, RenewableEnergyWorld.com 

Published June 29, 2010

We get quite a few questions here at RenewableEnergyWorld.com about who the big players in each sector of the renewable energy industry are, so we decided to start pulling together some top 10 lists. Here are the top 10 producers of PV for 2011 according to a report from Energy Trend. These numbers will take you right along the supply chain, from polysilicon to module.

Editor's note: These lists were updated from an entry originally posted in 2010. See below for the 2009 figures in the original post. The 2012 numbers do not reflect thin-film production, only polysilicon-based production.

Read the entire article here.