Solar Power

Brazil’s planned Antarctic research station will use solar panels for the sunny summers and wind turbines in the long winters to supply renewable energy year-round.

Goldman Sachs will pump $500 million into SolarCity solar lease projects, backing 110 megawatts in installations.

Solar’s proportion of new generating capacity plunged in April. But don’t worry. Everything is OK.

A Maryland inventor’s claim of a radically new and better (but largely not revealed) approach to solar power is getting attention. Is there anything to it?

Private money is financing privately developed renewable energy projects, beginning with geothermal, that will power U.S. military installations.

A 66-megawatt PV plant, currently the largest operating in California, is cranking out maximum power for several hours a day in northern Los Angeles County.

The 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects, about 60 miles north of LA, enter “major construction” mode, with completion eyed for 2015.

The Passive House concept, though very hot today, developed in the late 1970s from passive solar house forebears.

Researchers are trying to boost the efficiency and lower the cost of technology that uses concentrating solar power to turn natural gas into higher-value syngas.

What happens when college students compete to design and actually build the best solar dwelling?

Will rooftop solar spell doom for electrical utilities? Fears are running rampant, and San Antonio’s CPS Energy is acting to scale back net metering credits.

Much was made of the fact that solar accounted for 100 percent of the new utility-scale power on the U.S. grid in March, but it actually meant little.