Solar power is appealing, but the economics are tricky. Enter loanTERRA, a Seattle startup offering transparent financing and ...

Sunrun has forged a distributed power plant partnership with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) using more than 1,000 ...

FTC Solar has signed a PV tracker supply agreement with Lubanzi Inala for a portfolio of utility-scale solar projects in South Africa.

Like EVs, solar panels are sold with warranties – but what happens when the warranty runs out? A Swiss university study of solar installations from the 1980s and ’90s found many still generating most ...

The city is demanding about $20 million in penalties and restitution from Radiant Solar, the largest sum it has ever sought from a home improvement contractor. By Andy Newman Arthur Klein first ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

When the 47th solar panel exploded, Henrik Eskilsson began to fear he had signed on with a madman. In his SUV, he and Anders Olsson were accelerating across Sweden’s Lunda Airfield, towing a trailer ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted a series of large-scale tests to investigate factors that affect flame spread beneath photovoltaic (PV) panel installations on flat, commercial and ...

Federal tax credits for residential solar panels, batteries and heat pumps expired, eliminating incentives that previously saved homeowners thousands of dollars. Emerging lease-to-own models and ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...