While rooftop solar panels are common throughout the Bay Area, this would be the first solar energy and storage infrastructure built on the Peninsula. Photo by Sana Dadani. This story was written by ...

Plug-in solar has remained in the shadows because of a lack of safety standards and often costly requirements imposed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solar panels have a lot of benefits, but there are also downsides. Making the decision to go solar is a significant step that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Rooftop solar has become one of the fastest-growing clean ...

Solar power has shifted from niche technology to a central pillar of the global energy system, and the pace of change is only ...

When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun's power for a rainy day—or a cold night. Chemists at UC Santa Barbara have ...

Balcony solar would augment utility-scale renewable energy and reduce the need for new utility-scale generation. More ...

Floating solar farms have moved from novelty to serious infrastructure, turning reservoirs, lakes and sheltered coastal waters into power plants. As solar capacity races past 1,200 G worldwide, ...

Have you ever considered going into the energy business? Starting your own production facility and selling energy through a contracted broker? In today’s clean energy reality, it no longer requires ...