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

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 ...

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 ...

Solar farms need space. Lots of it. Build them on land, and you're competing with farms, forests, and wildlife. So Germany ...

GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz.—About 33 miles south of Phoenix, Interstate 10 bisects a line of solar panels traversing the desert like an iridescent snake. The solar farm’s shape follows the ...

No matter how handy you are, you might have a reason to hire a professional to install your solar panels. Here are the pros ...

A 3.2-megawatt community solar farm was unveiled in Fulton during a symbolic ribbon-cutting Tuesday. The Lime Kiln project, developed by Chaberton Energy and owned by Pivot Energy, has built more than ...

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 ...

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 ...