Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For five years, Altamont’s solar power array has helped power homes, businesses and city buildings. Commissioned and built by the ...

The placement of solar panels in Colorado’s grasslands could help decrease water stress and increase plant growth by about 20 percent during dry years, a new study has found. In these semi-arid areas, ...

New research shows that the presence of solar panels in Colorado's grasslands may reduce water stress, improve soil moisture levels and -- particularly during dry years -- increase plant growth by ...

Desert plants can thrive when sharing land with large solar arrays, according to a study from Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. The study looked at plants present on land shared with some of the ...

Melink Solar is constructing an array of solar panels on five acres of land adjacent to Fairfield's wastewater treatment plant, 4799 Groh Lane. A rendering shows part of the plant and the solar array.