Solar panels keep generating electricity throughout winter – but how much can you realistically expect in the UK?

Winter might seem like the worst season for getting energy from solar panels, due to less sunlight and more snow, but as it turns out, the opposite is true.

Solar panels and snow are often framed as natural enemies, but the physics of how panels generate electricity tells a more nuanced story. In cold, bright conditions, modern photovoltaic systems can ...

Perovskite solar cells can be made not only more robust but also more efficient, scalable and cheaper to manufacture by ...

Open farmlands are ideal locations for installing solar panels, but the most common method, which involves covering a large ...

The solar company Sunrun has managed to thrive despite President Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy, offering what it ...

Broken Hill will be the location of Australia's first large-scale compressed air energy storage system. What is it and how ...

You can use multiple light sources to charge solar lights, but they work best with sunlight, so it's almost always better to leave them out in the sun. They use the same technology as solar panels, ...

Teams in France are assembling the core of ITER, the gigantic experiment that seeks to harness energy from fusion, similar to ...

In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai discussed the recently announced Project Suncatcher, which aims to find more efficient ways ...

UC Davis engineers have invented a Stirling engine that captures Earth’s escaping heat to generate power from the night sky.

Co-founder of two spinouts and an education charity, Professor Sam Stranks is committed to getting new ideas and technologies out into the world where they can make a difference.