An Arizona company hopes to build a solar generating and battery storage operation on 1,500 acres of southwest Barton County in 2029 and 2030. Representatives with Arevon were in Jasper ...

As more solar power is added to the energy grid in Western Pennsylvania and across the world, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are thinking about what comes next: how to maintain those solar ...

A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

Solar panels disguised as ancient Roman tiles or designed to blend into historic skylines. Pompeii and Évora are proving that ...

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 ...

Across Europe's lakes and reservoirs, a new generation of solar panels is rising—floating, intelligent and ready to reshape the energy landscape. But to scale up, key challenges still need to be ...

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 ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with ...

Solar farms need space. Lots of it. Build them on land, and you're competing with farms, forests, and wildlife. So Germany tried something different: putting solar panels on water. Specifically, on a ...

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 ...