Across the globe, lack of access to electricity creates a cycle of poverty that is difficult to break. According to the International Energy Agency, 1.6 billion people are without access to electricity in the world – mostly in poor, rural areas.Read more

Applied Materials supports The Prince of Wales' Rainforests Project's call for emergency action to help combat climate change by addressing rainforest destruction. Join this urgent challenge; to add your name to this cause, please add it below or visit the project's web site.Read more

In conversations about utility scale renewable energy, I'm consistently running into the same three misperceptions.

#1: Renewable energy requires new transmission. When utilities and policy makers think large scale renewable energy, they think first about wind and concentrating solar thermal. For utility scale generation, both technologies have had a head start versus solar PV (and, therefore, are more top-of-mind). But Read more

A great idea germinated in California is now taking root in Texas, starting in Austin.

Since this year’s Yokohama Flat Panel Display show was also a Green Devices show, a lot of interesting products ranging from solar panels to LED lighting fixtures were shown.