Solar panels were once a niche home feature, favored exclusively by eco-conscious homeowners—but that’s quickly changing. In the past 10 years, solar installments have grown at almost 30%, according ...

Buying a home is not an easy decision, and there's more to consider than curb appeal, location, or square footage. Sustainability is another key factor. According to the National Association of ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

This year would be the last for a 30% tax credit for home solar panels and a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles under a budget proposal introduced this week in the US House of Representatives. It's ...

When Meg Grady’s clients saw solar panels on the roof of a four-bed, three-bath seaside Colonial in Winthrop, the prospective buyers were less than enthused. “It was not the most positive reaction,” ...

Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

When the roof disappears under a thick blanket of snow, burying the solar panels beneath it, homeowners might wonder if they ...

With the growth of portable power stations as solar generators in the last decade, interest and competition has led to huge improvements in solar panel performance. When I began playing around with ...