A floating solar farm in the Netherlands is turning out to have an effect nobody quite expected; it is giving underwater life ...

Solar power can reduce reliance on polluting, non-renewable fuels.

A pilot project in California is covering irrigation canals with solar panels, and early estimates suggest it could save ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water can help keep solar panels cooler, which may improve performance.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...