Consumers may be more open to installing green panels that melt into the landscape, red panels on rooftops and white ones camouflaged as ...

Energy bills could be cut by more than 60 percent if homes were designed to generate, store and release their own solar energy.

Materials scientists map the possibilities to improve commercial lithium-ion batteries expected to operate in extreme hot or cold.

Researchers show the benefits of demand-response applications in large-scale simulations for optimal performance in residential photovoltaic systems.

New perovskite solar cells set a world-record efficiency performance of 22.1 % in small cells and 19.7 percent in 1-square-centimeter cells.

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has confirmed the technical and economic viability of integrating 175 gigawatts (GW) of ...

Revolutionary screen-printed batteries were on display this week, signalling the future of renewable energy storage.

NREL hopes to enable a cost-effective, scalable net-zero development infrastructure across the U.S. in future developments.

United States' electric grid remains vulnerable to natural disasters, cyber and physical attacks; actions needed to improve resiliency of the power system.

A concentrating photovoltaic system with embedded micro-tracking can produce over 50 percent more energy per day than standard silicon solar cells in a ...

Thanks to a new material developed by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and Empa, efficient storage technologies are likely to become ...

Researchers have demonstrated how a non-toxic alternative to lead; that could form the basis of next-generation solar cells.