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Last month, an energy think tank released some rare good news for the climate: The world is on track to install 29 percent more solar capacity this year than it did the year before, according to a ...

Price has long been the main knock on solar panels made in the United States. They have typically been much more expensive than comparable panels from China. That difference is shrinking, but the ...

Chinese workers in a solar panel factory. - Credit: Xu Changliang/VCG via Getty Images Solar panels are so cheap now that in many places around the world, if a business isn't running on solar energy, ...

Europeans are transforming their garden fences into mini solar farms. But is the trend a gimmick or a genius solution to energy independence? Solar is already cushioning Europe from the crippling ...

A collapse in the price of Chinese-made solar panels, now selling for as little as 12 cents a watt, down from $5 to $6 at the turn of ...

Over the past year and a half, a dozen states have embraced a new vision for solar power: small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch, be plugged into a standard wall outlet and take ...

A coating 100 times thinner than a human hair could be “ink-jetted” onto your backpack, cell phone or car roof to harness the sun’s energy, new research shows, in a development that could reduce the ...