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Saving money wasn't the main motivation for Shalom Mennonite Fellowship to go solar. "The church has done a lot in the area of what we call 'creation care,'" Duane Ediger, a member of the church in ...

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Hundreds of energy industry leaders, officials from the Department of Water Resources, elected officials and labor leaders gathered Thursday at the foot of the Tehachapi Mountains south of ...

A novel thin-film technology enables solar panels to generate electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.

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Solar is no longer just a way to trim your utility bill; for many homeowners it is a serious contender to keep the lights on when the grid goes dark. Whether panels can truly stand in for a gas or ...

After years of testing portable solar panels, I've found that small adjustments to my setup can yield massive efficiency ...

South Africa would seem like the perfect place for widespread uptake of solar energy. The country is sunny, with high solar ...