Explore how space solar power and satellite energy could beam clean, continuous electricity from orbit to Earth, examining ...

Towering 450 feet above the California desertscape, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility was once, not so long ago, a monument to man’s ingenuity. When it was dedicated in 2014 (a ...

As wind and solar power expand rapidly worldwide, researchers are confronting a growing challenge: how to effectively ...

It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks ...

Solar power has immense potential as a renewable energy source, helping humankind transition away from the production of fossil fuels, which are responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse ...

FREMONT, Calif. & BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nextracker (Nasdaq: NXT) and the University of California Berkeley Engineering (UC Berkeley) announce a strategic partnership aimed at advancing ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Stearic acid is a fatty acid derived from nature. It acts as the phase-change material. When the sun hits the black ...

Power plant operator and co-owner NRG Energy Inc. is preparing to close down part of its Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in San Bernardino County, Calif., a little more than 11 years after it began ...

Clean energy developer Arevon Energy has launched work on the 300-MW/1,200-MWhour Nighthawk Energy Storage Project, a lithium iron phosphate battery storage system to serve the San Diego metro area.

The UK government has approved the country’s largest power-producing solar farm following a planning ...