Every solar panel company makes bold claims about its panel efficiency, maximum wattage availability, temperature coefficient and other specs in optimal conditions. Anyone who does product testing ...

Montreal-based researchers developed a plan to embed solar panels into sidewalks to power electric vehicles that deliver food. This "green city" innovation would free up traditionally solar-powered ...

The global solar boom has introduced a new urgency around asset durability, performance, and risk. As utility-scale solar farms become more common, so do the invisible defects that compromise ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has taken direct aim at one of the most persistent misconceptions holding back rooftop solar adoption, the belief that panels stop producing electricity when clouds roll ...

It is not surprising that the practice is gaining widespread attention. Farmer makes surprising discovery while testing sheep ...

According to the International Energy Agency, the rapid growth of solar energy generation puts renewables on track to meet almost half of global electricity demand by 2030. Researchers at Binghamton ...

A new hail test for solar panels shoots small to large hailstones at solar panels while aimed to more accurately determine the panel’s breaking point. Introduced by VDE Americas, the “Hail Resiliency ...

An Albuquerque-based company is trying to make it easier for more people to reap the benefits of solar energy with portable ...

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 ...

Japan has achieved it yet again through the company Kyosemi's Sphelar® that has questioned why solar panels have to be flat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The ...