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UN Plans Solar Energy For 33 Million People In Africa, Asia -- M&C New York - Low-cost solar panels and solar batteries will be provided...

Marines With ExFOB Marines and sailors of India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment pose with their Afghan national army counterpart...

Electric towers and power lines cross the proposed site of a BrightSource Energy solar plant near Primm, Nev. The presence of existing tower...

Researchers have come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering the development of efficient a...

Representative thin crystalline-silicon photovoltaic cells -- these are from 14 to 20 micrometers thick and 0.25 to 1 millimeter across. (Cr...

From Future Pundit: The cost of solar panels dropped almost in half in the last year in Germany. In the last year — solar panel prices dro...

From Popular Mechanics: For the Solar Decathlon, 20 teams of college students strive to build the most technologically savvy sun-powered hou...

Photo: Cheaper solar: Nanosolar’s thin-film panels. Credit: Nanosolar From Technology Review: Nanosolar's new factory could help lower ...

Photo: Light trap: Incoming light reflects off grooves in a silver band and is redirected along a glass cover. This light, which is usually ...

Researchers apply the nanoparticle “inks” as a spray on the solar cells. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Texas at Austin) From Sci...

SunFlower Solar Panels: This isn't your mother's garden. David Newsome/GOOD Magazine From Popular Science: Fifteen of these flower-...

A man pictured next to solar panels whose energy helps pump water into a water tower in a village in Niger, 2004. Twelve European companies ...

PNNL, Vitex Systems and Battelle are working to adapt a film encapsulation process that would enable flexible solar panels like this. The fl...

Solar thermal converts the sun's energy to heat and then to electricity (Source: NREL) From ABC News Science (Australia): Solar thermal ...

From environment360: New solar thermal technology overcomes a major challenge facing solar power – how to store the sun’s heat for use at ni...

Image: Powerful polymers: This illustration shows the different layers that make up a new plastic solar cell with nearly perfect internal e...

From MSNBC: Utility to buy orbit-generated electricity from Solaren in 2016, at no risk. California's biggest energy utility announced a...

From The Futurist: I have written beffore about the reduction in price of solar energy, and how each succcessive price decline would deliver...

From Ontario Solar Farms From Live Science: The Facts The amount of energy from the sun that falls on Earth is staggering. Averaged over the...