Shares of Chinese solar panel makers surged Wednesday. Staff linked to Elon Musk had reportedly visited several photovoltaic suppliers in China. The reports had fueled speculation for potential ...

When the 47th solar panel exploded, Henrik Eskilsson began to fear he had signed on with a madman. In his SUV, he and Anders Olsson were accelerating across Sweden’s Lunda Airfield, towing a trailer ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted a series of large-scale tests to investigate factors that affect flame spread beneath photovoltaic (PV) panel installations on flat, commercial and ...

Federal tax credits for residential solar panels, batteries and heat pumps expired, eliminating incentives that previously saved homeowners thousands of dollars. Emerging lease-to-own models and ...

For years, solar power at home was mostly limited to people who owned their rooftops and could afford the steep upfront costs. But now, a new generation of small, affordable systems — often called ...

California is taking the first steps in realizing an idea to save billions of gallons of water each year and produce enough clean energy to power a city the size of Los Angeles for nine months ...

Federal legislators passed new regulations requiring U.S.-sourced and manufactured solar panels for commercial projects that hope to get tax credits, making demand for domestic panels skyrocket.

First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), the US’s largest solar panel maker, announced it will open a new 3.7-gigawatt (GW) factory in the US to finish production of its Series 6 modules started at its overseas ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.—What happens when a solar panel dies? The vexing question hung last week over the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) sustainability conference, the first of its kind for the ...

A 76-year-old woman in New York City was killed Sunday by a 7-foot solar panel that came loose because of strong winds as a powerful nor'easter battered the East Coast. At around 10:30 a.m. ET, a ...

If you're weighing up whether or not it's worth getting solar panels fitted to your house, one of the key considerations is how long you can expect those panels to last. A new study reports that, with ...

For years, Dan Harrison’s home in the western hills of Los Angeles would lose power when it was hot, when it rained or when it was very cold — sometimes the outages would stretch longer than 10 hours.