Decrease in clean energy investment could exacerbate health crisis

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Solar panel costs have dropped lately, but slimming down silicon wafers could lead to even lower costs and faster industry expansion

Mechanical engineers rush to develop energy conversion and storage technologies from renewable sources such as wind, wave, solar, and thermal.

New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say.

MIT researchers have designed low-cost, photovoltaic-powered sensors on RFID tags that work in sunlight and dimmer indoor lighting, and can transmit data for ...

A new study shows that replacing new solar panels after just 10 or 15 years, using the existing mountings and control systems, can ...

The system may be designed to power a small city not just when the sun is up or the wind is high, but ...

Adjusting the output of nuclear power plants according to the changing supply of renewable energy such as wind and solar power

Approach could bypass the time-consuming steps currently needed to test new photovoltaic materials.