When solar co-benefits are taken into account the economics are strong so we can expect solar energy systems to grow even ...

Switching to solar energy is a huge plus — but what's the best way to go about it? Solar panel owners share their honest ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Solar thermal energy is the process of concentrating sunlight to create heat, which can be used to create electricity or to heat a home, its water supply and more. Solar thermal energy can be used as ...

Stacy is a journalist and content creator with six years of experience writing about home improvement topics. Besides Forbes Home she has contributed her work and expertise to publications such as ...

A passive solar-heated home needs no solar panels to heat or cool it. Rather, the energy used to heat and cool a house comes directly from the sun through skylights and windows. Some of that energy is ...

From a distance, the energy system on top of a college residence hall in Omaha, Nebraska looks like photovoltaic panels. But as you get closer, it becomes clear that this is something different, with ...

Heating houses is a major energy suck. Behind passenger cars and trucking, it’s the largest energy draw in the United States. But it turns out homeowners looking to stay warm don’t need to rely just ...

Since ancient times, people have found ways to use the sun’s heat to stay warm or keep cool. They built homes from clay and other materials that hold heat well, and they placed them in ways that ...

Texas has nearly 7.5GW of storage capacity in operation, which Solargis suggested is a key reason for the resilience of the state’s electricity grids. Image: SB Energy. Fluctuations in solar power ...

Solar Cooker is a device which is used to heat the food by using the rays of Sun converting into heat energy. Solar cooker uses the solar energy directly for preparing food just like the plants that ...