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

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

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

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

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

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.

Half cell solar panels, which divide conventional full-sized cells into two electrically independent halves, have moved from ...

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

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 ...

A new study by solar recycling firm SOLARCYCLE and Arizona State University (ASU) has confirmed that solar panels manufactured with recycled glass perform identically to new panels. The finding is a ...

Australian scientists are developing a "reverse solar" panel-a thermoradiative diode that converts the Earth's emitted ...

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 ...