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 ...

The end of the track and field season saw 17 current or former Ducks head to Tokyo for the 2025 World Athletics Championships. There, Oregon... In a world that never truly powers down, the demand for ...

A Virginia lawmaker announced plans this week for a bill that would let residents use small plug-in solar panels at home.

Solar panels are often categorized based on their wattage, which is the amount of solar power they can potentially capture and convert into electricity. So, you may see references to 200-, 250-, 300-, ...

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 ...

Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

Kimberly Dawn Neumann is a multi-published NYC-based writer whose work has appeared in myriad publications ranging from Forbes to Real Simple to Cosmopolitan. She’s written hundreds of articles as ...

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 ...

DENVER (AP) — Back in 2015, California’s dry earth was crunching under a fourth year of drought. Then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered an unprecedented 25 percent reduction in home water use. Farmers, who ...

The government has backed away from charging households with small rooftop solar panels a new monthly social-insurance levy, after weeks of confusion that left tens of thousands of families unsure ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is moving to pair its massive Colossus data center in Memphis with a relatively modest solar project, an 88-acre field of panels that would sit beside ...

100-watt solar panels are affordable, easy to set up and able to produce electricity anywhere the sun shines. Does this mean they're always the best choice when designing your solar energy project?