The system is based on a highly compact and flexible ultrathin soft solar blanket that acts as the collection panel and can unroll once the satellite reaches orbit. As it does so, a 3D printer system ...

City of Detroit unveiled landscape designs Wednesday to convert a total of 61 acres in two eastside neighborhoods into solar "arrays," or blocks of panels that generate electricity. It's part of the ...

LOS ANGELES, July 14 (Reuters) - The Sacramento Municipal Utility District in California on Monday electrified a 1.2-megawatt photovoltaic solar panel array that it says is the first U.S. project to ...

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 ...

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 ...