Rural electric cooperatives may face disruption from cheaper on-site renewables. Co-ops serve about 12% of the U.S. population but operate over 40% of the nation’s power lines. Financial pressure ...

US solar giant First Solar signed a patent licensing agreement with the UK’s Oxford PV, a University of Oxford spin‑off, giving it access to issued and pending patents covering perovskite materials, ...

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...

Shares of Chinese solar panel makers surged Wednesday. Staff linked to Elon Musk had reportedly visited several photovoltaic suppliers in China. The reports had fueled speculation for potential ...

A mobile medical simulation truck from the University of Iowa stopped in Columbus Junction to give Louisa County ambulance crews hands-on training. China executes 11 members of gang who ran ...

There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar and battery system, but most of it assumes a suburban home with city services and outages measured in hours, not days. Rural homes play by ...

A small rural town in Columbia County is mounting opposition to a large-scale solar project that residents say could dramatically change their community, with part of the proposed development located ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) — Opponents of a solar farm in rural Lancaster County are in district court this week, hoping to undo the unanimous approval by the county’s board of commissioners back in January ...

Fix up an old house, make the yard nice, grow your own crops, and become self-sufficient. View the cherry blossoms in the spring; Attend the festival in the summer; Eat roasted sweet potatoes in the ...

‘Homegrown energy sources, such as wind and solar, take on more strategic value in a world faced by frequent crises,’ explained Dr Chris Rosslowe. Image: Arno Senoner, Unsplash. Expanded ...

Zacharie Jehl Li-Kao, a researcher in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), has developed Soley, an open-access simulation software designed to ...