"...Paint-on solar panels could boost current energy efficiency by 50%...Using dyes to transport light across a solar panel's surface has been tried before using polymers... The MIT technique represents the first time it has been applied to glass..."

"...Samsung Everland will aim for the construction of a solar-cell plant that will have the potential to produce 20 megawatts of energy...The project would leap ahead of rival LG Solar Energy in production capacity...LG Solar Energy last week completed a solar facility will have a 14-megawatt total output capacity..." "

The Japanese government is backing Sony, Toshiba, Sharp and some other companies in joint research of new display technology called organic light-emitting diodes, or OLED.

Japan's Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said Tuesday it had developed a fluorescent lamp that does not use mercury or a gas-discharging process.

In a sign that solar industry and its political allies are starting to flex some real power, the federal government reversed course and announced it would continue to accept new applications to build solar power plants on government land while developing an environmental policy for assessing the projects.