A joint research team at Masdar Institute and MIT has developed a new two-layer solar cell with a theoretical efficiency of 40 percent, smashing the current world record.
The gleaming sphere is capable of producing up to half-a-million gallons of fresh water each year.
Costa Rica has run on 100-percent renewable energy for the past 113 days, edging closer to its goal of being completely free from fossil fuels.
Can Elon Musk revolutionize the way we think about roofs too? He certainly hopes so.
The Russian solar group has been granted to right to build six solar power plants, each with a 15 MW capacity, in Russia's southern Astrakhan Region, according to a statement from the regional government.
A renewable energy revolution is sweeping the developing world in which the world’s poorest are becoming pioneers in renewable energy and the smart grids of the future.
Near Melbourne, Australia lies an incredible suburban project underway dubbed Yarrabend. What is unique unique about this venture is that all of the houses will come standard with Tesla Powerwalls and solar panels.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have engineered a potentially game-changing solar cell that cheaply and efficiently converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel, using only sunlight for energy.
Solar Impulse finished a 26,700-mile journey, flying a total of 23 days without a drop of fuel.
Facebook’s solar-powered drone has completed a successful test flight.
U.S. solar has jumped 100-fold in the last decade and prices are now under 4 cents per kilowatt-hour. Solar has doubled seven times since 2000, and Dubai received a bid recently for 800 megawatts of solar at a stunning “US 2.99 cents per kilowatt hour” — unsubsidized.
The average cost of electricity generated by solar and wind technologies could decrease dramatically, diminishing and, in some cases, eliminating the price barrier for renewable energies, according to a new report.
Apple is starting a new company to sell surplus solar energy generated at its Cupertino headquarters as well as its Nevada solar farm.
The largest net zero plus commercial building retrofit in the US officially opened a few days ago in Los Angeles.
They like to do things big in Dubai, including a newly-approved concentrated solar power project that will generate 1,000 megawatts of power by 2020 and a whopping 5,000 megawatts by 2030.
