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.
Sand is running out in a way most people never hear about. Not desert sand, which is too round and too smooth to lock together, but…
An interesting aspect related to the projects that are materializing in the United States is the willingness of the country to rely on a multitude of…
Deep within the algae-crusted shallow reefs of the Western Pacific lives a creature barely larger than a speck of dust to the untrained eye. Measuring just…
On a street of ordinary terraced houses, a smoke alarm trips before dawn. A homeowner finds the attic glowing orange from below the slates, and every…
There has been a tremendous amount of attention on the clean energy transition and the number of captivating projects that have been executed as a result…
Across Virginia homes and small businesses, electricity rates are climbing sharply. Monthly utility bills are placing a severe burden on family budgets, driven by rapid industrial…
The Dutch have successfully hybridized floating solar with existing wind assets, but a defect led the project back to port. Globally, nations are rushing to expand…
For years, solar developers rushing into Illinois’ community solar programs kept running into a brick wall: a rural power grid in ComEd’s western territory that simply…
The problem at this cemetery had nothing to do with the dead. Every winter the water table came up through the peat and stood in the…
Hydroelectric dams across the United States could affect the survival of endangered species like sturgeon. Climate change is putting immense pressure on America’s freshwater systems and…
Solar panels and frozen lakes don’t belong in the same sentence — at least not in any engineer’s comfort zone. Yet floating solar, a technology that…
Somewhere in West Texas, 3,000 sheep graze beneath thousands of solar panels across 8,000 acres—land that once yielded cotton until consecutive years of severe losses made…
In Germany, more than 4 million apartment dwellers have been doing it for years: prop a small solar panel on a balcony railing, plug it into…
France is experimenting with the merger of solar generation and traditional aquaculture. Worldwide, large-scale renewable energy infrastructure is mainly a major competitor with other industries. This…
The survey method is a square of roofing felt. You lay them out across a site, leave them for weeks, then lift each one and write…
The integration of technology into the energy industry is giving developers the confidence to pursue ambitious projects that would not have been possible to complete through…
Nebraska’s renewable energy tax is reshaping some communities, but wind and solar wealth piles up in just 10 counties In 2017, the O’Neill Public School District…
From the access track it looks like somebody fenced a field with glass. Two long rows of dark panels standing bolt upright, edge to edge, running…
Researchers are concerned about the nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon’s effect on passing whales. These power facilities remain popular globally because they emit zero greenhouse…
Massachusetts lawmakers have been celebrating a rare moment of bipartisan progress. Two energy bills — one from the House, one from the Senate — cleared the…
Every morning, a family of four in an urban apartment goes through their daily routine—showering, washing dishes, and making breakfast. Yet their household runs on a…
Water does not want to go uphill. Everything else in a canal system is a matter of grading and patience, but a mountain range is a…
The solar energy industry is active at the moment as there are a multitude of companies willing to invest millions of dollars in captivating energy facilities.…
There has been a recurring theme of companies operating in different industries deciding to collaborate on energy projects because both of them understand the importance of…
The rolling hills of Vermont in August smell like warm earth, hydrangea, and sun-ripened tomatoes. What they don’t smell like — at least not at this…
The interesting object is not the panels. It is a grey steel cabinet about the size of a large refrigerator, bolted to a concrete pad at…
Solar energy projects have become more sophisticated ever since technological innovation became heavily integrated into development. Nowadays, companies have the ability to execute projects that would…
In the Dutch North Sea, 47 species colonized 18 offshore solar floats, including 12 non-native ones. Available land for renewable energy growth is becoming scarcer across…
Floating solar works remarkably well — until the water stops cooperating. On calm reservoirs and sheltered lakes, conventional systems perform reliably. But push them into choppy…
A Pennsylvania solar farm demonstrates how thousands of panels can impact micro-environments. The world’s rising electricity demands are necessitating the acceleration of the global energy transition.…
Pathfinder Clean Energy just got the green light for Lassington Solar and Battery Energy Storage System—a 40MW solar and storage project near Gloucester, Gloucestershire. The approval…
The ponds sit almost at sea level, brackish and still, running flat toward the strait in every direction. Steel frames rise off the earthen berms and…
At Fresno’s Northeast Surface Water Treatment Plant, the solar array looks wrong at first glance. There are no steel frames, no elevated rows tilting toward the…
The key to success in the energy industry is maintaining activity and being involved in a variety of projects because not only does it allow companies…
The United States intends to diversify the clean energy portfolio of every state and ensure that people have reliable clean electricity to use at all times.…
For American farmers, the financial math has been brutal for years: rising fuel costs, soaring fertilizer prices, and real estate developers circling fields that families have…
A generation table is a boring document. Rows of fuels, columns of months, numbers that shift a little and mostly stay in the order they were…
The Yellow Sea is generating solar power on floating platforms, and seaweed is keeping it steady. The intermittency and land limitations of traditional photovoltaic installations remain…
On Matthias Weyland’s balcony in Kiel, Germany, two dark-blue solar panels hang quietly from the railing of his red-brick apartment building. They connect directly to a…
The solar energy industry is going through a transformative period, and there is an abundance of companies that are involved or vying to become involved in…
Solar energy developers have recognized the importance of capitalizing on certain moments that are going on in the industry, considering that the energy industry evolves at…
A Texas solar farm has become the new home and “workplace” of two orphaned barn owls. In the United States, large-scale solar capacity has become fundamental…
North Carolina’s rooftop solar installers had every reason to brace for collapse. The 30% federal tax credit that made home panels affordable for millions of households…
Arriving at a Vermont farmhouse, a traveler finds solar panels, an EV charger, and an honest answer about how far rural electrification has actually come. The…
The United States has shown a huge commitment to diversifying the energy portfolio of every state and ensuring that there is reliable clean electricity at all…
Twice a day the sea walks off the Changhua coast and leaves a gray plain of mud behind it. The panels come down with the water.…
A cracked panel lying in wet grass does not look like a chemistry problem. Glass in a web of fractures, a bent frame corner, rain sitting…
Covering trucks and cars with solar panels could make them their own “power stations,” slashing up to 80% of their energy bills, new research finds. Rather…
Spain launched a giant “solar ship” that floats on the open sea and is already built to sail far beyond Spanish waters. A massive catamaran-style structure…
Florida Power & Light now operates 120 solar energy centers across Florida—the largest utility-scale solar portfolio in the United States. The Juno Beach-based utility announced the…
