The past year has seen a dramatic increase in the number of solar panel installations performed in the US. Two things have driven this demand. The cost of solar panels has dropped about 50% due to over supply and ...READ»
Imagine: you decide that you want to power your new house completely with solar energy. You go to Lowe's and buy some solar panels, install them, and voila, solar is on tap. It sounds simple enough, but up until this week it was a pipe dream.READ»
After many months of waiting and debating, the California Public Utilities Commission has approved a plan for local utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to buy space-based solar power from Solaren Corp. The stealth startup, ...READ»
Forget the Iron Curtain--we'll all be living behind solar curtains if Konarka Technologies has its way. The organic solar cell company has teamed up with Arch Aluminum and Glass to test out so-called "solar curtains," or walls of ...READ»
The world's first solar-sail-powered spacecraft, Cosmos 1, met its demise in 2005 when it fell into the ocean before ever reaching orbit. But dreams of solar sails propelling spaceships haven't died, and Carl Sagan's Planetary ...READ»
Access to on-demand lighting is a given for many of us, but some developing countries don't have the proper electrical grid set up to allow even a basic light bulb to turn on. Solar power is a popular way to address this problem, a ...READ»
Leave it to the kids to produce the best green homes. We recently profiled Penn State's Natural Fusion house, an entrant in this week's Solar Decathlon, but our favorite design on display at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is ...READ»
Chances are, you know if your neighbor has solar panels on their roof--the shiny black photovoltaic panels are a dead giveaway. But Dow Chemical is making rooftop solar power covert with its solar shingles, expected to be released ...READ»
1366 Technologies, a startup spun-out of MIT that aims to raise solar panel efficiency without increasing cost, announced this week that it has developed a manufacturing process to produce multicrystalline solar panels with an 18% ...READ»
