In the race to power America's homes, solar companies are employing a variety of designs, some of which incorporate vast collections of photovoltaic cells that turn the sun's energy directly into ...

Workers at the Ivanpah plant have a name for the spectacle: “Streamers.” The project, developed by Bechtel, had an initial ...

The plant was built at a cost of about $2.2 billion and received loan guarantees worth $1.6 billion from the U.S. Department of Energy.. Back in 2010, when the plant was first certified by the ...

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.

SAN ANTONIO — When Mission Solar Energy LLC broke ground on its $100 million solar manufacturing plant at Brooks City-Base last year, it was touted as a high-profile move to bring jobs to the ...

Even if it's not mentioned in the Sandia news release, this research work has been published by the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering under the name "Practical Field Alignment of Parabolic ...

Natural gas is not carbon free like nuclear power and renewables, but it emits nearly half as much carbon dioxide as coal plants. Duke Energy expects renewables to make up its largest generation ...

The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant tower over gleaming solar panels that stretch across thousands of acres of farmland. The polluting coal plant is on its way out, scheduled for ...

So he looked into solar panels. “It was something I really wanted, I went through like eight or nine different companies, but I couldn’t get the financing that would work,” said Stanhope.