Given the enormous long-term savings and environmental benefits, there's never been a bad time to install solar panels, but 2025 is shaping up to be an especially favorable year to take the plunge.

When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun's power for a rainy day—or a cold night. Chemists at UC Santa Barbara have ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

Clean energy is evolving fast, and artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating that progress in ways that were hard to imagine ...

Clean electricity from the sun and wind has expanded at record speed, but the next phase of decarbonization will be defined ...

Aerial view of farmers tending to soybeans under solar panels at an agrivoltaic farm. (Photo by Zhang Zhenxiang/VCG via Getty Images) Plants like sunlight, it helps them grow. So, it is understandable ...

Solar projects can generally be placed in two buckets: they are either large utility-scale ground-mounted projects connected to the grid, or they are smaller, distributed projects, typically 20 MW in ...

Solar and wind power have become increasingly cost-competitive over the past decade, prompting claims that they are now the cheapest sources of new electricity. Federal and state incentives have ...