Does history repeat itself? The investors and executives behind NovaSolar really hope not. The company says it has developed a process for producing amorphous silicon solar modules and building ...

Last year, I wrote a story about NovaSolar, a somewhat strange reincarnation of a company called OptiSolar that was arguably the biggest debacle in solar until Solyndra came along. NovaSolar's ...

Frozen capital markets are putting the chill on a fast-growing California solar company, a sign that the economic downturn is being felt even in the state’s thriving renewable-energy sector.

An Arizona solar company said Monday that it had acquired a pipeline of planned large solar projects from OptiSolar, a Hayward solar panel manufacturer that had planned to build utility-scale projects ...

Hayward-based OptiSolar has sold its remaining assets for $260 million to a Canadian company, completing a spectacular rise and fall for a once-bright star of the solar energy sector. With the deal, ...

OptiSolar Inc., which only last fall had the trappings of a solar energy powerhouse, disclosed on Friday that it has laid off nearly 300 workers in Hayward and Sacramento because the frozen capital ...

One year ago, a little-known solar power company emerged from the woodwork with a plan to build a photovoltaic manufacturing plant at McClellan Park. Thrilled by the potential of 500 or even 1,000 new ...

OptiSolar Inc., which grabbed headlines last year with plans to build a massive solar power plant in California's Central Valley, has stopped its manufacturing operations and will lay off most of its ...