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From undergraduate students to experts with nearly 50 years of experience, Michigan Technological University researchers know ...

More and more countries of the world are beginning to use alternative energy sources, including solar. Therefore, modest ...

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

Tesla and Honda are set to purchase all the power from Delilah I, a new 300 MW solar farm in Texas.

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Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this ...

Some Texans who install residential batteries, solar panels and smart thermostats can now send power back to the grid and get ...

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 ...

But cheap solar power is now breaking the model. Last year Pakistan became the world’s third-biggest importer of Chinese ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...