What started as a premise in a UC Merced lab culminated with a commemoration of Project Nexus, California’s first solar canal project. On Wednesday, state leaders gathered at the Project Nexus sites ...

Traditional solar panels have transformed renewable energy, but they come with one major limitation, they are rigid, heavy ...

New Haven transformed a former landfill into a source of renewable energy Monday, which is expected to generate enough ...

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

Wisconsin has launched a groundbreaking project that could reshape how the state generates and uses electricity. The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County combines a massive solar farm with a ...

Agrivoltaics, including using sheep grazing as a form of vegetation management on large-scale solar farms, is gaining ...

A pilot project in California is covering irrigation canals with solar panels, and early estimates suggest it could save billions of gallons of water per year.

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The tiny town of West Goshen, Calif., was ...

Solar canopies are unlocking clean energy potential in some of the built environment’s most underutilized spaces, but success depends on getting the details right. Solar canopy projects above parking ...

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 ...

As of mid-2025, the United States has approximately 248 GW of installed solar capacity, according to Wood Mackenzie’s “US Solar Market Insight: 2024 year in review” report, published by the Solar ...