A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

As more solar power is added to the energy grid in Western Pennsylvania and across the world, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are thinking about what comes next: how to maintain those solar ...

To accommodate the increasing demand for clean energy, researchers have been developing floating solar panels for rivers, ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

Across Europe's lakes and reservoirs, a new generation of solar panels is rising—floating, intelligent and ready to reshape the energy landscape. But to scale up, key challenges still need to be ...

Scientists in Germany have engineered a major leap forward in solar panel design by devising plans for ultra-thin solar panels that are up to 1,000 times more efficient than conventional silicon ...

Community solar farms are useful to people who cannot or do not want solar panels on their roofs. Kentucky ranks near the bottom for all states for renewable energy production. Utilities begin to ...

Canada should focus on building mass utility-scale solar mega-projects to kickstart its green energy transition, according to ...

One of the biggest benefits of solar power is its lack of emissions, but that doesn't mean that it can't have other ...

Water contractors can expect to pay between 1% to 3% more for the energy it takes to bring supplies down the state through ...