Water can help keep solar panels cooler, which may improve performance.

What started as a premise in a UC Merced lab culminated with a commemoration of Project Nexus, California’s first solar canal project. On Wednesday, state leaders gathered at the Project Nexus sites ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Near Hickman, California, just outside Modesto, a 110-foot-wide grid of solar panels now tops a section of canal, arching over the gently flowing water. Solar projects have long been a crucial piece ...

Wisconsin has launched a groundbreaking project that could reshape how the state generates and uses electricity. The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County combines a massive solar farm with a ...

Why aren’t the world’s deserts blanketed with solar panels, transforming barren landscapes into hubs of renewable energy? Below, Just Have a Think takes you through how deserts, seemingly perfect ...

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 ...

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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 ...

China’s list of attractions could soon include the ‘Great Wall’ of solar panels after ...