For many homeowners, installing rooftop solar panels seems like a smart idea to reduce electricity bills, but the upfront ...

A new solar panel reaches up to 865 W, setting a historic record in power and efficiency for large-scale solar projects.

Every solar panel company makes bold claims about its panel efficiency, maximum wattage availability, temperature coefficient and other specs in optimal conditions. Anyone who does product testing ...

Agrisolar — a practice which essentially marries agriculture and solar photovoltaic energy — is beginning to catch on around the globe, and researchers recently set out to quantify its benefits in a ...

Less sun doesn't mean no sun.

Choosing the best solar products such as solar panels, inverters, batteries, and what company installs them, is an important step in your solar shopping journey. Here's how CNET evaluates these ...

Plug-in solar has remained in the shadows because of a lack of safety standards and often costly requirements imposed by utilities, but that’s changing.

Technicians dismantled the vintage 10-square-meter 1-kilowatt solar array last year, running the solar panels through rigorous lab testing per international standards and finding impressive results.

A team of researchers at the University of Córdoba in Spain discovered a way for solar energy generation and crop production to coexist on the same land without competing for resources. In a recent ...

Finnish solar-technology firm Valoe Oyj and trailer leasing company Tip have struck a deal to install solar power systems on ...