For decades, engineers and policymakers have imagined harnessing the blazing Saharan sun to fuel Europe and beyond. While the ...

Chile is rapidly moving to build more power generation capacity, with much of that effort focused on renewable energy ...

Questa has always been an industrial community. John Ortega, mayor of the Village of 1,797 in northern New Mexico, said his ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

Tucked into the Victor Valley region of San Bernardino County, Hesperia offers that increasingly rare California commodity: ...

Today the big trend is all about industrial solar power—plants that generate enough energy to power entire cities. In 2024 alone, the U.S. installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, enough ...

An international research team studied the solar PV impact of emissions from a coal-fired power plant in the Atacama Desert, finding that after five months of exposure, the deposited dust on co ...

The Desert Star Solar Plant is owned by APS, so all the power won't necessarily go directly to Phoenix, according to Roeder. Phoenix can count it toward the city's renewable energy goal because it ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in early 2014, it was pitched as the future of solar power. Just over a decade later, it’s closing.

When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in early 2014, it was pitched as the future of solar power. Just over a decade later, it’s closing.