Climate change has been viewed almost universally as a burden, a hot potato to be passed from country to country at annual climate change conferences. Although it’s widely known that climate-friendly ...

A research team led by scientists from India's Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering has developed a tree-type of PV-wind power system for off-grid applications. “A hybrid tree is a synthetic ...

Solar provided over 11% of total US electrical generation in May, while wind + solar produced over one-fifth, and the mix of all renewable energy sources generated nearly 30%, according to data just ...

From the scale of danger posed by wind turbines to the actual price of installing home solar panels, here are the facts you ...

Three years ago, a massive spinning blade flew off a towering turbine at Portland General Electric’s flagship wind farm in Sherman County, bringing scrutiny to the many maintenance problems, safety ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott L. Montgomery is a geologist who writes about energy issues. For more than a decade, energy and climate analysts have ...

Year on year, Chile has seen more solar PV capacity curtailed (2.7TWh) than generation added (2.3TWh) in 2024.Image: ACERA. Chile has curtailed a record 5,909GWh of solar PV and wind power in 2024, up ...

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that ...

The installed volume of solar PV in the US could be as low as 375GWac in the next ten years. Image: Gerry Machen via Flickr. Analyst Wood Mackenzie has forecast that solar PV and wind installations in ...