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.
Smoke went up from a flat roof. It was the middle of a June afternoon, and within a couple of hours the column had grown wide…
Solar farms can support more nocturnal wildlife than traditional agricultural fields in the American Midwest. The United States is actively expanding its green capacity, with a…
China builds almost everything in its renewable energy supply chain itself. Foreign companies rarely get a seat at the table — and almost none have managed…
Solar farms in the Midwest can successfully co-exist with native wildlife when using specific site designs. Clean energy is booming across the United States to meet…
A wildlife camera mounted low to the ground captured an American badger, one of the rarest mammals in Arkansas, padding between steel frames built to hold…
In the quiet fields of Atlantic, Cumberland, and surrounding New Jersey counties, a profound agricultural transition is quietly unfolding. Rows of green soybeans, hay crops, and…
A truckload of retired solar panels arrives at an industrial lot in west Texas. The paperwork says recycling. The destination is licensed and the labels are correct.…
As clean energy demand continues to grow, collaborations are becoming more important than ever before because they allow companies to achieve success in the projects that…
The top solar-producing state is set to increase its capacity further, but only after searching for a tiny desert lizard. Worldwide, energy grids are under immense…
The last cow had already left the paddock when the first surge of electricity traveled from 450 acres of Waikato farmland into New Zealand’s national grid.…
Ten thousand feet up, on a plateau where the wind has scoured the ground for centuries, the grass is now over knee high. It is growing so well that…
New York is set to expand its floating solar capacity, but first, environmental impact studies must be conducted. The United States is actively working toward achieving…
One of the biggest barriers to success for energy companies is having sufficient funding to execute a project. As such, when a company is able to…
The solar energy industry has continued to grow ever since the integration of technological innovation, which opened up possibilities for developers to execute projects that would…
Germany’s federal grid regulator got a lot more than it bargained for in its latest renewable energy tender. The Bundesnetzagentur announced results from the auction that…
On the morning of July 13, smoke rose from a field on Bracken Road in Schaghticoke, New York. Firefighters arrived expecting almost anything, and what they…
There is a fence, and there is a soybean field on the other side of it. Inside the fence, rows of dark panels stand over waist high…
A virtual analysis of reservoir-based floating solar systems has detailed specific pros and cons. Photovoltaic power is leading the global shift toward green resources and is…
Sicily’s newest solar farm will power hundreds of thousands of homes while sheep graze in the shade of its panels and forests grow back around them.…
The U.S. Department of Energy renewed two emergency orders on August 10, 2026, directing Puerto Rico’s electric utility to maintain critical generation capacity and clear vegetation…
Along Queensland’s Wide Bay Highway in the Gympie region, a massive clean energy infrastructure project is taking shape across nearly 1,500 acres. The Lower Wonga Solar…
A volunteer settles into a chair in a psychology lab at Princeton and stares at a blank screen. Two faces flash up side by side, then…
Wisconsin has proposed a solar site that helps safeguard its state-threatened Greater Prairie-Chicken. Renewable energy infrastructure is rapidly expanding worldwide to meet rising demands. However, the…
One of the advantages that U.S. based companies hold over the rest of the world is that the nation possesses an abundance of wealth and resources…
Solar energy companies that have access to the most resources and technology are able to deliver more projects than companies that are not in that privileged…
A solar farm in New York ended a five-year dispute by supporting wildlife conservation. The world’s electricity demand is skyrocketing, necessitating the rapid deployment of renewable…
Sunlight is a double-edged sword for life on Earth. Photosynthesis requires light energy to survive. Yet absorbing too many photons creates an immediate biological hazard. For…
The strip of ground between two railway rails is dead space. Every line on earth has it, and on every line it holds gravel and nothing…
The United States continues to put a specific focus on advancing the solar energy landscape in the hopes that it can assist the nation in meeting…
The Mojave Desert outside Las Vegas looks barren to most passing eyes. But tucked beneath the scrub and sand lives the threecorner milkvetch — a rare…
At peak daylight in the Mojave Desert, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System looks like an engineering triumph: three 450-foot towers illuminated by thousands…
At peak midday, a utility-scale solar plant in California running at full throttle looks like a textbook operational triumph. Rows of silicon panels sit angled steeply…
ForeFront Power brought its first Erthos Earth Mount Solar system online at the City of Fresno’s Northeast Surface Water Treatment Plant, hitting commercial operation in late…
Walk one block through Chicago’s South Side under a canopy of towering oaks, and the air feels forgiving. Walk the next block, bare and sun-baked, and…
Floating solar installations at the Brouwersdam have transformed into homes for marine life. Global coastal regions are becoming increasingly crowded, raising the need for clean energy…
The Duke Energy Foundation announced $100,000 in emergency grants this week to three nonprofit organizations helping communities recover from severe storms that swept across Ohio and…
Somewhere over a stretch of dry scrubland, a migrating bird picks up a signal it has trusted for millions of years. Below it lies the flat, polarized…
While severe storms recently knocked out power to 135,000 Ohio homes, one Northwest Ohio community stepped into the rain to celebrate a solar installation that thrives…
Arevon Energy declared its Nighthawk Energy Storage Project fully operational on August 12, 2026. Located in Poway, California, the facility carries a capacity of 300 MW…
A thin steel wire coated in diamond grit slices a silicon ingot into wafers barely thicker than a human hair. The dust it leaves falls into…
Scatec has announced the Commercial Operations Date for the second and final phase of its Obelisk project in Egypt, bringing the installation to its full capacity…
Across the windswept grasslands of Inner Mongolia, a staggering industrial transformation just crossed a quiet threshold. High-tech energy corridors spanning China’s remote northern frontier endured a…
Somewhere in southeastern Massachusetts, where a flat bog turns red every October and river water moves through cranberry vines below ground level, a developer drew a…
Companies that are highly active in the modern-day landscape are more likely to generate more revenue and be at the forefront of groundbreaking projects. Ever since…
2026 has shown that companies increase their likelihood of successfully executing projects if they collaborate rather than pursuing a project individually. Through partnerships, companies are able…
U.S. utility-scale battery storage capacity has grown at an average annual rate of 70% over the past three years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.…
Central Utah’s color changed in less than two years from space. In a June 2024 Landsat image, Castle Valley was mostly tan, indicating undeveloped ground. In…
Copenhagen-based developer European Energy completed the sale of the Cerano Energreen solar project in Brindisi, Puglia, Italy, on August 6, 2026. The fully permitted, grid-connected 90…
In the high desert of Emery County, Utah, the sun arrives hard and early. Nearly a million panels now catch it before most of the county…
Solar energy developers continue to take advantage of the technological innovation that has transformed the way projects are approached. Because of advanced technology and in-depth scientific…
