President Donald Trump wants to stick solar power where the sun don’t shine. The real-estate mogul turned authoritarian president has long railed against green energy — with a notorious enmity toward ...

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 ...

As more homeowners turn to solar energy, more solar scams and subpar providers also seem to pop up. Picking the right company isn't just about the price; it's also about reliability, trust and ...

Even way back in the mid-1990s, in the computer game SimCity, where users create a virtual city from scratch, the utility options depicted coal as dirty and nuclear as unstable, whereas solar and wind ...

With the growth of portable power stations as solar generators in the last decade, interest and competition has led to huge improvements in solar panel performance. When I began playing around with ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this summer, Tara McDermott, who’s in charge of policy communications for a ...

One homeowner just did the math on one of the hottest home-upgrade topics — solar panels — and the results seemed too good to be true. In a Reddit post, the homeowner shares the details of his solar ...

Cuyahoga County officials recently gathered at a Westlake home to mark a milestone for the county’s Residential Solar Co-op ...

In April 2025, the United States Department of Commerce finalized a new tariff of up to 3,521 percent on imports of solar panels from four Southeast Asia countries: Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, and ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

Solar panels are a big, on-trend deal in the energy world. According to a 2024 statistic shared by the Solar Energy Industries Association, the United States produces approximately 248 gigawatts of ...