The first time Chris Dahl heard rumblings of a plan to build a large solar array among the corn fields and tobacco sheds of East Windsor, she said the project sounded like a good enough idea. A ...

Commercial spaceflight is booming and looks to go into full-on kaboom stage in the near future, sparking the need for an ever-increasing supply of solar panels. To fill this need, Dcubed is developing ...

The ARAQYS-D3 mission by Dcubed will demonstrate the ability to manufacture a solar array 15 meters long in orbit. Credit: Dcubed BREMEN, Germany — German satellite component company Dcubed is moving ...

New molecular architecture enables the natural formation of built-in p/n junctions essential for efficient light-to-electricity conversion Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have created a ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

If you’ve been to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, you’ve walked by huge solar panels in its parking lots. They create lots of shade – but they also generate 4.55 megawatts of solar power across ...

“We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in ...

Hyundai is betting that the next big leap in electric mobility will not come from ever larger batteries or faster chargers, but from turning the car itself into a power plant. By embedding solar cells ...

Brandi Umbaugh planned to build a home on her 70-acre farm that would have a commanding view of surrounding fields and woods hugging the eastern side of Westmoreland County’s Chestnut Ridge. A massive ...

When the 47th solar panel exploded, Henrik Eskilsson began to fear he had signed on with a madman. In his SUV, he and Anders Olsson were accelerating across Sweden’s Lunda Airfield, towing a trailer ...

What if you could set up some panels in your backyard or hang them off your balcony and start making a dent in your power bill? Organizations are trying to bring "balcony solar" to the U.S. Rooftop ...