Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A turbine from the Roth Rock wind farm spins on the spine of Backbone Mountain behind the Mettiki Coal processing plant in Oakland ...

As solar energy is rapidly becoming the world's largest renewable power source, new research from McGill University offers a ...

Researchers affiliated with King’s College London have published a new modeling study showing that space-based solar power could supply up to 80 percent of Europe’s renewable energy by 2050, ...

Is solar power going to take over the world? The past few years have seen a frankly astounding acceleration in the rate of its deployment, with total generation capacity doubling between 2022 and 2024 ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, May 22 (Reuters) - Solar farms are set for a record stretch of power sector dominance in Germany after becoming the single largest generation source in the country at the earliest ...

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants. Solar farms contributed 67,800 gigawatt-hours of electricity from ...

Over the past year, solar generation surpassed natural gas to become California’s leading source of electricity, a milestone expected to persist. Data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. In 2024, rooftop solar was the fastest-growing source of ...

Cost reductions in utility-scale solar PV and energy storage systems have been “unprecedented” since 2021, the researchers said. Image: Wikimedia Commons Solar PV is the world’s cheapest technology to ...

Bloomberg Opinion’s climate columnist visited Michigan, the former heart of the solar industry, and China to learn how good, old-fashioned capitalism won out. It all starts with a crystal. To make the ...

Solar is set to become the most cost competitive energy source in South Korea by 2030 to 2035, according to researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Their research paper, “Assessing ...

The Trump administration is working to lift regulations on coal-fired power plants in the hopes of making its energy less expensive. But while cost is one important aspect, utilities have a lot more ...