solar power

We compare the histories, benefits and future of using wind power versus solar power.

Scientists working in Kenya are trialing an innovative way to “harvest the sun twice.” This means using a special solar panel technique known as agrivoltaics that installs solar panels both to generate clean energy and to shade crops.

An innovative climate solution would give the U.S.’s big box retail stores a sustainable makeover. A new report from Environment America and the Frontier Group calculated that the big, flat and sun-exposed roofs of superstores like Walmart and Ikea would make ideal locations for solar panels.

This past year was an eventful one for solar energy. We witnessed COVID-19 variants derailing supply chains, nations gathering for UN climate talks at COP26 and extreme weather events disrupting power for millions. Yet despite a turbulent economic year, the renewable energy market — led by solar energy — continued to grow steadily in 2021. […]

A site once a symbol of one type of apocalypse is now helping to stave off another. Ukraine opened a solar plant on Friday in Chernobyl, a little more than 100 yards from the power plant that caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, AFP reported. “Today we are connecting the station to the […]

Renewable energy installations like wind turbines or solar panels can be an important part of fighting climate change by providing energy that does not require the burning of fossil fuels. But models have shown that large solar or wind farms could also change the climate directly by their presence. Now, a group of scientists led […]

A unique type of flower is growing in a community garden in Chicago’s South Side. The SmartFlower is a special type of solar panel array designed to open into the shape of a flower in the morning and generate electricity by following the sun across the sky during the day, like its namesake. Its design […]

The Greek island of Tilos is set to be the first in the Mediterranean to power itself entirely with wind and solar power, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The final tests of a new system that will allow the island to power itself with batteries recharged by a solar park and 800-kilowatt wind turbine are […]