You probably know that our solar system is big. But do you have a grasp on just how big it really is? No. A filmmaker and his buddies went to a dried-up lakebed in Nevada to do just that. The vast ...

Following the successful conclusion of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) held from 13–15 January in Abu Dhabi, TrinaTracker, the tracker business unit of Trinasolar, highlighted its participation ...

Gigawatt-scale solar farms spreading across China’s northern deserts are doing more than generating electricity. Field research at photovoltaic installations in Gansu province shows that panel arrays ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. On a recent flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix, I glanced out the ...

Cover enough of the Sahara Desert with solar panels and wind turbines, and you might change the weather. That is the central finding of a growing body of climate modeling research, and as of spring ...

In a sun-drenched Nevada desert, the Gemini project became America’s largest dispatchable single-phase solar + storage system, powering up to 10% of Nevada’s peak demand. This POWER Top Plant award ...