Many farmers have had to fallow land as a state law comes into effect limiting their access to water. There's now a push to develop some of that land… into solar farms.

As solar energy is rapidly becoming the world's largest renewable power source, new research from McGill University offers a ...

Researchers affiliated with King’s College London have published a new modeling study showing that space-based solar power could supply up to 80 percent of Europe’s renewable energy by 2050, ...

Some states are helping them along, but projects in progress are all competing for the same scarce labor and resources. When it comes to renewable energy sources, this second Trump administration is ...

Overall, electrical consumption in the US rose by 2.8 percent, or about 121 terawatt-hours. Consumption had been largely flat for several decades, with efficiency and the decline of industry ...

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President Trump said Wednesday that his administration will not issue any more approvals for new solar and wind energy projects, the first time he has explicitly stated he would block any new solar ...

Dominion Energy has filed its largest request for solar projects with state regulators — including a project in Hampton Roads — as part of its plan to meet long-term renewable energy goals set by the ...

One of Brazil’s largest renewable energy developers, mostly known for its wind power projects, is adding significant solar power generation capacity to its portfolio. Casa dos Ventos, which has ...

Riyadh-based energy company Acwa Power will develop Morocco’s Noor Midelt II and Noor Midelt III solar-plus-storage projects. Together, they have a combined solar capacity of 800 MW alongside 1,200 ...

Hundreds of thousands of solar farms and solar energy projects have opened in New York over the past decade amid rising concerns about the state's "extremely uncertain" energy future, state data show.