A tropical landscape flooded to accommodate an underperforming hydroelectric dam is getting a new lease on life.
In a world that's hungry for energy but increasingly wary of the damage that generating power can do, solar might just be the answer: clean energy that's cheap and virtually endless.
The Copenhagen International School, designed by CF Moller Architects, will feature some 12,000 solar glass panels making up the largest solar glass facade on Earth.
As you next fly into Heathrow, look out the window and you might see the world's largest floating solar farm, sitting atop the massive Queen Elizabeth II reservoir in Walton-on-Thames.
A successful test flight means that after being grounded in Hawaii for seven months, the Solar Impulse 2 is ready to continue its journey around the world.
For the first time ever utility-scale solar projects will add more new capacity to the nation’s grid than any other industry this year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported Tuesday.
MIT researchers have developed the thinnest, lightest solar cell to date, which can be placed on a soap bubble without bursting it.
The sun rises and sets 365 times in most years. In that time, Kyocera figured out how to harness more of the sun to help power a smartphone.
Another state in India has approved construction of an ultra mega solar power project, boosting the Indian Government's plan to set up 20 GW of large-scale solar power parks.
No source of energy is perfect and one of the traditional drawbacks of solar energy has been that it’s tough to generate new power when it’s dark outside. However, SolarCity announced this week that it’s taken a big step toward fixing this problem by agreeing to use Tesla’s 52 MWh Powerpack lithium-ion battery storage system.
A LARGE-scale solar and wind revolution has been sparked in Queensland with 17 proposed projects capable of powering more than a million homes.
It is hoped that this solar plant will eventually produce so much electricity that the nation will not only be able to meet its own energy needs, but also export the excess to Europe. The first section of the plant was turned on this afternoon by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, and is expected to start churning out 160 megawatts.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and Gottlieb Paludan Architects have just won an international competition to design the world's largest waste-to-energy plant in Shenzhen, China.
France will install solar panels on 1,000 kilometers of road over the next five years to bring renewable energy to millions of people.
Companies partaking in the RE100 campaign are, on average, halfway towards meeting their 100% renewable electricity goals. This, according to the new RE100 annual report published by The Climate Group and CDP this week, which publishes the latest available data (which is from 2014) on 45 companies partaking in the RE100 campaign to commit to 100% renewable electricity.
