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.
Norway’s Voldsfjorden, two sun circles float alongside cod pens and turn an aquaculture site into an offshore power station. Typically solar panels should be installed on…
RWE Americas just signed a deal to sell its U.S. Distributed Clean Energy business to Infrastructure at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. We’re talking about roughly 348 MWdc…
Small solar panels power stations, with antennas that dip into frozen darkness across Greenland’s ice sheet. They are designed to detect radio flashes from ultra-high-energy neutrinos…
A security fence runs around the edge of a 30-acre field on the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire border, and the people who built it were thinking about…
Zelestra just flipped the switch on three solar plants in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain—all on schedule. The Brazatortas I, II, and IV facilities add up to 57…
A solar-and-battery facility unlike anything the United States has built before is taking shape across the sprawling farmland of Mississippi County, Arkansas. Best known for heavy…
On April 8, 2024, the Moon caused a twilight to occur during the day in Texas, and the electric grid responded almost instantaneously. Solar farms typically…
It is thinner than a human hair. It wraps the back of nearly every solar panel ever bolted to an American roof or staked into a…
America is a beneficial place for companies to expand if they want to enhance their overall clean energy production. The nation is a leader in clean…
By almost every metric, North Carolina’s rooftop solar market entered 2026 in full-blown crisis. The federal 30% residential tax credit—long the financial engine of home solar—was…
After Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico in 2017, energy regulator Javier Rúa-Jovet watched the night sky glow along the horizon — thousands of diesel generators…
Electricity costs across the United States have steadily climbed, placing immense financial strain on families and local businesses alike. For millions of renters, apartment dwellers, and…
The pitch is almost irresistible: no emissions, no moving parts, no fuel bill. A solar panel arrives on a truck, gets bolted to a rooftop or…
United States solar energy companies are all working toward enhancing the landscape and ensuring that the nation is able to meet its clean energy targets. The…
Oyster cages were carried from the Chesapeake Bay by a floating platform in Baltimore harbor for months. Oysters are typically kept in stationary cages and food…
A single energy project in Abu Dhabi just secured $6.1 billion in financing to deliver 1 gigawatt of continuous clean power around the clock. A single…
Two solar plants in California aimed at saving endangered foxes unintentionally attracted other species as well. Solar power is the leading source in the world’s renewable…
Floating solar panels have long been restricted to quiet, undisturbed settings—tranquil reservoirs, sheltered lakes, and glass-like ponds where ripples are rare. The prospect of anchoring sensitive…
The Thar Desert does not forgive idle machinery. Temperatures swing past 122 degrees Fahrenheit in summer, sandstorms arrive without warning, and the air carries a fine…
The crew arrived before the heat did. By the time the Texas sun was properly dangerous, another block of panels was locked to its steel frame…
The United States solar energy landscape is going through an exciting period where developers have the freedom to experiment with technology in order to discover the…
A sampling frame was pressed against the bottom of a solar floater in the Dutch North Sea. The platforms above floated on the water like a…
Twenty off-grid islands in the Philippines still run almost entirely on diesel—expensive to ship, vulnerable to price swings, and increasingly costly to subsidize. The Philippine Department…
California reached a solar milestone no major economy had ever achieved, and the numbers recorded throughout May reveal how far the grid has changed. Power grids…
The grass had become a problem nobody anticipated. Inside the steel fence of a massive solar installation in western Poland, vegetation was growing faster than conventional…
In a remote western Australian location, rows of solar panels feed electricity towards machines that listen beyond Earth. Solar power typically is the answer to an…
In seconds, a hailstone can hit a solar panel and cause damage that can last for a long time. Homeowners tend to look at the panel’s…
Someone just broke ground on a 1.2-gigawatt solar farm in the middle of an active Texas coal mine and plans to keep the coal burning. In…
Something unusual sits in the Mojave at the edge of Lancaster, California. Rows of rectangular modules are racked up in the open desert air, faded from…
Tennessee has set the example of how solar farms can coexist with heavy livestock. Renewable energy capacity must expand at utility-scale to meet rising electricity demands.…
A tawny cat moved between rows of solar equipment after dark, its presence captured only by a remote camera. Solar plants may seem like places wildlife…
Across county fairs, state legislatures, and social media feeds, clean energy opponents frequently raise alarms that solar installations consume valuable American agricultural land. This argument resonates…
A little-known Australian thermal energy storage company just signed a deal that could make it a cornerstone of the country’s AI infrastructure buildout. 1414 Degrees has…
With the clean energy transition now fully underway, projects are materializing thick and fast. Countries have clean energy targets that they want to meet within certain…
On a clear morning in the Texas hill country, a large solar farm hums along without a moving part in sight. The panels are thin film…
A solar facility in Indiana has successfully blended prehistoric history with the future of electricity generation. It is essential to scale up renewable energy developments to…
Every leaf on every tree does something chemists have spent decades trying to copy: it catches sunlight and locks that energy into chemical bonds, quietly and…
A solar farm in the desert had to restructure its development plan due to the presence of endangered tortoises. Worldwide, electricity needs have changed significantly, rendering…
Most homeowners focus on panel costs, installation fees, and payback periods when going solar. That math feels complete. But it ignores a hidden timeline ticking right…
A fishing boat heading out from the port of Dongying on a December morning in 2025 would have passed something that had never existed anywhere in…
The biggest and most successful energy companies are electing to acquire or develop subsidiaries as a way to branch off and focus on projects based in…
Along Egypt’s Red Sea coast, the semi-arid strip of Zafarana already hosts some of the country’s largest wind farms — and researchers believe its solar potential…
In Europe, countries are more aligned and united in the way that they pursue energy projects. Although countries may be vying to become leaders in the…
Something changed in the water at Isla Huar the moment the diesel engines went quiet. The holding pens at Mowi’s Huar Norte salmon farm sit in…
The ancient city of Pompeii shows how heritage and modern technology can come together using solar roof tiles. Globally, nations are under pressure to decarbonize due…
A small fox emerged beside rows of solar panels on California’s Carrizo Plain, where industrial development had transformed a once-familiar landscape. Solar farms are often assumed…
A grid of fenced solar panel fields crisscrosses the map of northwestern New Mexico, with GPS tracks circling them. In the case of bigger animals, a…
Jess Gray did not set out to reinvent agricultural and solar practices across the Mid-Atlantic. She and her husband sold their residence, relocated to rural Pittsylvania…
On a flat stretch of land east of San Antonio, rows of pale gray cabinets sit in the Texas sun. Each cabinet is stuffed with battery…
A Volkswagen solar farm has adopted dual-purpose practices, significantly boosting output. In the United States, renewable energy infrastructure is rapidly expanding in capacity. The key is…
