Solar energy is booming across residential properties as homeowners chase lower electricity bills and greener energy sources. Rooftop arrays have become a familiar sight in suburban neighborhoods, ...

The average lifespan of solar panels is about 25 to 30 years, but they were not designed to be repaired, refurbished or disassembled ...

Summer solar data is noisy. Heat, smoke, and grid limits can distort performance. Here’s how to tell what’s normal, what ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When a baseball-sized hailstone slams into a solar panel at more than 90 mph, the result is not ...

A new generation of 3D-printed solar cells could let buildings generate power through colorful, semi-transparent windows ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is moving to pair its massive Colossus data center in Memphis with a relatively modest solar project, an 88-acre field of panels that would sit beside ...