Utility-scale and rooftop solar in the U.S. — the projects being built, the technology behind them and the policy that decides whether they get built at all.
Thousands of mirrors stretch across the Gobi Desert outside Dunhuang, each one tracking the arc of the sun and bending its light toward a single tower…
For 50 years, scientists have explored whether releasing reflective particles into the stratosphere could cool an overheating planet. Hundreds of studies followed, yet fundamental unknowns remain…
The U.S. power grid is straining under a demand surge unlike anything it has faced before. More than 12,000 active projects are currently seeking grid interconnection,…
Deep in Appalachian southeast Ohio, Vinton County bears the physical scars of a long industrial past. For generations, coal mines, iron furnaces, and clay pits powered…
America’s solar boom is quietly taking root in unexpected places. A capped municipal landfill in southern New Hampshire. A 595-person ranching town in coastal California that…
A scatter of low islands in a peat marsh north of the Loire estuary, in western France. The commune sits barely above sea level, and its…
Most Americans still picture the national power grid through a retro lens: towering coal stacks, humming natural gas turbines, and massive nuclear cooling towers doing all…
Innovative solar panel systems were designed to increase generation and system protection. Nations are rushing to increase renewable energy infrastructure as global power demands shift. But…
A Spanish group is combining a working olive farm with clean solar generation using innovative layouts. Spain’s agricultural sector plays a crucial role in the European…
A reservoir in the hills of a Philippine island, olive green water, forest on the ridges above it. This is not a lake. It was built…
The solar energy industry continues to advance at the hands of a massive number of companies that are dedicating resources and investments toward the execution of…
Solar energy companies are becoming more experimental with the projects that they are pursuing and the ones that are set to be at the forefront of…
Flat farming country in western Victoria, a wheat and sheep district, roughly 186 miles northwest of Melbourne. Rows of dark blue panels run to the horizon…
A German solar farm is operating despite the competitive fallow deer rutting season. Strict climate regulations are placing pressure on densely populated countries to increase their…
The solar energy industry continues to advance, with leading countries like the United States and China setting the tone for the rest of the world to…
Passenger jets flying over the poles while scattering sun-reflecting particles into the stratosphere may already be our most affordable tool for cooling an overheating planet. For…
A single track railway in the western Swiss mountains, pasture on both sides, a station a short walk away. Between the rails, where there is normally…
A catamaran-shaped solar platform measuring 64 meters by 41 meters — carrying 600 solar modules and 500 kilowatts of generating capacity — has arrived at the…
The clean energy transition has brought the entire U.S. energy landscape together, as companies are aware that the nation has objectives to meet. The U.S. government…
A monsoon-prone island nation is deploying floating solar power to maintain aquaculture operations. Climate change is accelerating, making weather predictions more volatile and storm events more…
Somewhere in West Texas, 3,000 sheep are grazing beneath rows of solar panels across 8,000 acres—and their keeper, Chad Raines, calls it the thing that finally…
For nearly a decade, South Africa endured rolling blackouts that its state utility couldn’t fix. So businesses and homeowners fixed it themselves — pouring billions into…
China is merging solar deployment with offshore aquaculture and now seeks the perfect mooring length. The Chinese are leading the world in renewable energy projects, with…
A canal runs through farmland east of the valley floor, carrying water to almond groves and tomato fields. For most of its length it lies open…
Across European cities, a subtle shift is taking place along multi-story residential facades. On a typical morning in Kiel, Germany, Matthias Weyland looks out over a…
The offshore deployment of floating solar offers distinct benefits, but it also affects the marine environment. Rising electricity consumption worldwide is necessitating an increase in alternative…
With the clean energy transition now well and fully underway, companies that generate the most revenue are the ones that offer a wide range of services…
Three people, four days, and a roof at the edge of a fjord. What they left behind looks like a field of dominoes nobody knocked over.…
Duke Energy Florida asked the Florida Public Service Commission to lower electricity rates starting January 2027. That’s a rare ask in a time when utility bills…
Floating solar has a quiet limitation most people never notice: it only works where the water stays calm. Reservoirs, sheltered lakes, protected bays — these have…
Companies are now aware that the more they collaborate, the more energy projects they are able to execute successfully and, in turn, improve countries’ chances of…
A hybrid model combines floating solar power with aquatic food production, accelerating the recovery of the initial investment cost. Globally, nations are rushing to boost green…
Walk to the western edge of the field and the first thing you notice is what is missing. There is no tilt. Rows of dark glass run…
Across the globe, 2.2 billion people lack reliable access to safe drinking water. Desalination plants offer a crucial lifeline, yet these massive facilities harbor a destructive…
Four acres of flat water, and a switch thrown on a Wednesday morning in August. The pumps at the treatment plant had been running around the…
Rhode Island Energy announced on August 31, 2026, the completion of a $2.7 million electric system reliability project in Cumberland, Rhode Island—an investment aimed at cutting…
Africa officially added about 4.5 GW of solar last year. It imported roughly 18 GW of modules in the same period. That gap isn’t a rounding…
SB Energy has publicly filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common…
Duke Energy Florida just flipped the switch on its second large-scale battery microgrid—this one in Trenton, a small Gilchrist County city about 30 miles west of…
Solar panels and crops can share land — a new model shows both come out ahead Solar farms are expanding fast — and so is the…
The solar industry consists of great unpredictability and an element of surprise that could emerge from any direction. This has been the case ever since developers…
A solar panel is a heat engine that hates heat. Silicon converts light at a rate that drops as the cell warms, so the same sunshine…
Flying into a hurricane means accepting that the plane might suddenly drop hundreds of meters with no warning. In 2021, one research flight plunged roughly 500…
Five miles off the Shandong coast the water is barely thirteen feet deep. That shallowness is exactly why engineers chose this spot, and it is the whole design in one…
Offshore solar facilities are growing larger, but they could negatively impact marine life. With installation space becoming more limited in densely populated nations, developers are turning…
A floating array has almost no weight to hold it down. Plastic floats and thin modules sit on water that offers no friction, so the whole…
One of the most important targets for the United States during the ongoing clean energy transition is diversifying the energy portfolio of every state and ensuring…
The solar energy industry continues to rapidly transform, with developers relying on technology to uncover new ways of generating energy at the highest capacity possible. Developers…
A pallet of modules comes off a repowered array with the glass unbroken and the frames bright. Almost everything on that pallet is technically recoverable, and the…
The solar energy industry is going through an exciting period where developers are discovering innovative ways of energy generation that will determine the future of the…
