While generating green energy, solar panels usually create excess heat that goes unused. But with a new, innovative design, scientists have found a way to harness those precious leftovers to give the ...

Solar panels are an increasingly efficient, cost-effective, and higher-power-density renewable-energy source, though most ...

Flat solar panels could be left behind. HelioSkin is a new flexibile technolgy that turns the walls of buildings in the city ...

If you’re building a new home, it makes sense to do it in a way that employs free, renewable energy when it’s available. Most home designs don’t prioritize using energy they receive from the sun, but ...

A method of printing both decorative graphics and functional components onto flexible organic solar panels is aiming to bring solar energy into the realm of interior design. VTT Technical Centre of ...

Scientists have developed and utilized a mass production method based on printing technologies allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels. Design freedom improves the range of ...

New solar power technologies are hitting the market each year — either as a next-gen model of the existing types or as altogether new technology. Either way, the new options are lighter, more ...

If we asked you to think of a solar panel, it would likely conjure images of a boring black rectangle in your mind. But Toyota is working to change that, with a first-of-its-kind technology that ...

This time last year, we covered an interesting new solar charger that sought to avoid troublesome shadows from window frames, potted plants and household ornaments by sticking to the glass of the ...

Easing design for rapidly growing solar power applications, Texas Instruments (TI) announces its C2000™ kit that implements a complete grid-tied solar micro inverter based around TI's C2000 Piccolo™ ...