Solar panels became a powerful alternative for renewable energy a few years ago. But as technology advances, new alternatives ...

UNSW engineers have made a major step forward in the development of a new type of solar cell that could help make future ...

The government has announced the details of its long-awaited Warm Homes Plan which promises to cut energy bills.

Now, researchers have found that sandwiching a germanium oxide layer between the rear contact and the tin layer was able to ...

Traditional flat panels have a key limitation: they can only capture sunlight efficiently from one direction. This is where ...

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

It produces only a little power, but its innovative approach could support hardware that operates during lengthy periods of total darkness, such as deep-space satellites.

New research has uncovered a critical challenge in solar energy with the discovery that a considerable number of solar panels degrade much more rapidly than expected. About a fifth of solar panels ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Solar power is the fastest-growing source of new electricity ...

Tesla has updated its online configurator with a new solar panel heavily emphasizing its US manufacturing at Gigafactory New ...

But there might be another way for new data centers to get the enormous amount of energy they plan to use. A recent report from the nonprofit Rewiring America suggests that instead of building new ...

Researchers in Australia have achieved a breakthrough in an emerging solar cell material that ...