A Texas solar farm is using more than 2,000 sheep to maintain the land, alongside traditional mowers. This practice, known as solar grazing, helps lower emissions and costs while allowing farmland to ...

Wisconsin has launched a groundbreaking project that could reshape how the state generates and uses electricity. The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County combines a massive solar farm with a ...

Solar-powered tube wells drive increased irrigation, expanding fields of thirsty rice crops Development coincides with rapidly depleting water tables in Pakistan's bread basket Farmers financially ...

Solar-collecting windows could make office buildings and skyscrapers more energy efficient, but harnessing solar power while retaining transparency is a tricky engineering problem. A new study from ...

For years, Dan Harrison’s home in the western hills of Los Angeles would lose power when it was hot, when it rained or when it was very cold — sometimes the outages would stretch longer than 10 hours.

Last month, Google quietly killed off Google Sky Maps. But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps: it’s called Google Maps in Space. Google Maps in ...

In North Carolina’s second-biggest layoff this year, the solar energy firm Blue Ridge Power will eliminate 517 positions in two cities, Asheville and Fayetteville. “Over the past several months, the ...

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Blue Ridge Power, a subsidiary of Pine Gate Renewables, will undergo an "orderly wind-down" of operations. The company announced it would lay off 517 people on Sept. 18. It comes as more solar energy ...