At least that’s what’s being reported by The San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper reported yesterday (March 25) that SunRun and Sungevity, two of the largest residential solar companies in the U.S. are partnering in a non-binding agreement to install solar on at least 10,000 homes. 

That’s a take-away from the Clean Edge’s “Clean Energy Trends 2014” report released today (March 26). The report found that just in terms in photovoltaics the world installed 36.5 gigawatts of PV as opposed to 35.5 gigawatts of wind. 

SolarCity and BofA Merrill Lynch are launching the first large-scale aggregated fund to support residential rooftop solar. Today the companies announced that SolarCity received all commitments to its $250 million financing facility. Under the facility the rooftop solar provider plans to install roughly 200 megawatts of rooftop solar across the country and plans to refinance the facility in the securitization market. 

Last Friday (March 21) the Moapa Band of Paiutes were joined by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) and representatives from First Solar and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) in breaking ground on the first giant solar project located on Native American lands. As part of the project tribe members will help build the project on the Moapa River Indian Reservation north of Las Vegas.

The world of solar is shifting. Overall the amount of solar energy installed is growing a rapid pace with Mercom Capital predicting that 46 gigawatts of solar will be installed across the world in 2014. However where the solar is being installed is moving away from Europe into Asia and the Americas. While Germany had led the world in solar installations for much of the past decade it will be a distant forth in the market in 2013 and 2014.

In 2018 the annual deployment of photovoltaics is anticipated to grow to 100 gigawatts a year. That’s according to NPD Solarbuzz’ latest Marketbuzz report, which said that by then PV will be a $50 billion worldwide market.

Net-metering policies, the laws and policies that ensure homeowners have the right to sell power produced by their solar arrays back to their utility for a fair price or reimbursement level, are continuing to come under fire from the utility industry and its allies. In established markets and in new markets, like Utah and Washington state. But over the past two weeks they’ve been handed some round defeats. 

The most efficient form of solar power, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV), is the least commonly used right now. Last year the U.S. alone saw multiple gigawatts PV installed. The whole world is likely to have about 357.9 megawatts of CPV installed in 2014. That could change, according to a new report from GlobalData, which anticipates that the CPV industry will grow through the end of the decade as the technologies behind it mature.

Last year around June California’s large-scale solar arrays started breaking records—big records of generation. But this year the state’s giant solar arrays are already producing more than twice what they produced just last summer—when they were producing at higher capacities and for longer hours.

The ink is hardly dry on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC’s) decision on the methodology to calculate a value-of-solar tariff—a first for the U.S. Solar advocates have fought for such a rule across the nation because such tariffs or fees that utilities will have to pay to customers with solar electric arrays account not just for the power that they produce and put back on the grid, but also account for the social and economic value that solar power produces over fossil fuel-based electricity. Now the nation will watch how this northern state implements the voluntary alternative to net-metering.