A solar panel recycling company that recovers materials to feed back into the supply chain is taking the concept of a circular economy one step further. SolarCycle has just set up its own 500-kilowatt photovoltaic array using secondhand panels to power its plant in Odessa, Texas, as Electrek reported […] Click here to view original […]

The proposed Byron Solar Project.Becca Larson / Forum Design Center Dear Answer Man: I was driving south of Byron and Kasson the other day, and I didn’t see the big solar project that I kept reading about last year. I thought the project was supposed to be built on […] Click here to view original

"The actual direct benefits from plug-in solar panels may be small, but they create an incremental shift towards a more sustainable lifestyle." A little success and positive reinforcement can go a long way, and DIY solar installations are having that effect on residents across Germany, as the New York […] Click here to view original

Wind turbines in the RWE Offshore-Windpark Nordsee Ost in the North Sea, 30 km from Helgoland, Germany, May 11, 2015. Germany’s manufacturing sector, the backbone of its economy, has been struggling of late. It is having to contend with slow domestic demand, and exports, a key element in its […] Click here to view original

Ben Zook, the owner of Belmont Solar, with his wife Lillian, daughter Rachel and son Leroy at home with their Tesla Cybertruck in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Ben became fascinated by solar power in his teens and turned that interest into a thriving business Ben Zook is what many consider […] Click here to view original

This looks like a lazy day sunbathing, but she could be generating power if her backpack incorporated this new material. A newly developed material may be about to revolutionize solar energy. Created using what the researchers call a “multi-junction” approach, the material is already more efficient than many traditional […] Click here to view original