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 ...

Solstice makes community solar projects more accessible for people unable to invest in rooftop panels

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

This same material is used in the coating applied to the glass or clear plastic of touch screens, solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

This study investigates if the global residential cooling sector could sustain an added PV capacity between 20–200 GW each year for most of ...

New research reports positive impacts of Agrivoltaics on food production, water savings and the efficiency of electricity production.

The researchers developed an algorithm to further boost the energy collected from an existing solar panel

UMass researchers propose a new, data-driven approach that uses machine learning techniques and widely available satellite images to identify roofs that have the ...

Researchers have investigated and mapped the capacities of photovoltaic generation in the European countries in four different configurations

In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, ...

New software shows utilities how rooftop solar panels, at a specific house or business, would interact with a local electrical grid throughout the ...

If optical sensors and infrared imaging chips can be magnified and the technology scaled up, it could lead to high-efficiency solar panels.