Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

Researchers are breaking new ground with halide perovskites, promising a revolution in energy-efficient technologies. By ...

Operator NRG says its concentrating solar power technology has fallen behind solar silicon photovoltaic generation in terms ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Solar-heated homes integrate thermal energy storage, improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact through ...

How did this country manage to build the largest concentrated solar power plant that generates electricity even at night? And what has enabled Morocco, which has meager oil and gas reserves ...

The EU power sector is undergoing a deep transformation spurred on by the European Green Deal. Solar generation (11%) overtook coal (10%) for the first time in 2024, as wind (17%) generated more ...

Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Energy has backed away from plans for hydrogen and concentrated solar projects in the United States, joining the fossil fuel industry’s reassessment of ...

Solar saw the biggest leap, with a record-breaking 45.2% increase (+277 GW), achieving 887 GW overall. Wind power also saw solid growth, climbing 18% (+80 GW) to almost 521 GW. In 2020 ...

HONG KONG, Jan 21 (Reuters) - China broke its own records for new wind and solar power installations again last year, official data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a breakneck pace set in ...

Solar panels are engineered to harness the sun's energy to generate electricity by turning light energy into usable power – a process known as the photovoltaic effect. Unlike terrestrial arrays ...