Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Solar Power

20 January 2024, Palestinian Territories, Rafah: Palestinians walk by a solar panel, used by some to produce electricity in the refugee camps in Rafah. Due to the worsening financial situation of the individuals and the the lack of electricity in the refugee camps in Rafah, some young Palestinian men who have solar panels are using them to run small businesses by which they allow people to fully charge their phones for around 2 Israeli shekels fee (approximately 55 US Cents). (Photo by Mohammed Talatene/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Future of Gaza’s recovery may be solar

Saqib Rahim - Grist
A Solar Thermal Power Station in the Nevada Desert (Getty Images/ferrantraite)

Will solar panels destroy the desert?

Matthew Rozsa
A maintenance person uses a ladder and harnesses to install equipment around a Solar panel array on the roof of a house. (Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images)

How to protect yourself from solar scams

Vanessa McGrady
Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Solar farms drive away bats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Advertisement:
Skyline of Minneapolis taken at sunrise during the polar vortex with temperatures of minus -30, Minnesota, America (Getty Images/Joe Daniel Price)

Minn. mandates carbon-free electricity

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

Solar power on film

Lylla Younes - Grist
(Shutterstock)

France mandates parking lot solar panels

Alex Lawson - Grist
Ribbon cutting ceremony held at Farragut Elementary School in Culver City, California for switching on the school districts new 750kw solar array built at the school on February 04, 2014 (Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

More schools using solar energy

Joseph Winters - Grist
Advertisement:
Wind turbine reflected in solar panels (Getty Images/Tetra Images)

After the climate bill: Three big steps

Carl Pope
Tom Cotton, Joe Biden and Josh Hawley | Aerial view of solar power plant outside of Lancaster area of Southern California (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden's push for solar: Not enough?

Jon Skolnik
This is a schematic of WEC2P deployed in an arid region (Renyuan Li)

Solar system makes water out of thin air

Eric Schank
Solar panels on the green hills (Getty Images/LeoPatrizi)

There's really no "energy crisis"

Carl Pope
Advertisement:
(Getty/olsword)

COVID can't stop solar’s epic growth

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Britney Spears and Lorde (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Kevin Mazur/Steven Ferdman)

Shift from body positivity to neutrality

Kylie Cheung
cenes at the Tesla car factory include the building's exterior with a solar panel on the property (right of frame). (David Butow/Corbis via Getty Image)

Did Tesla secretly swap faulty panels?

Matthew Rozsa
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) attends a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part of the Green New Deal outside the U.S. Capitol November 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Why we need a national climate bank

Maria Gallucci - Grist
Advertisement:
PlanetSolar press officer Julia Tames walks across the deck of the MS Turanor PlanetSolar, the world's largest solar-powered boat, moored at Zea Harbor, in Athens, on Tuesday Aug. 5, 2014. The 35-meter (115-foot) vessel is in Greece to take part in a Swiss-Greek underwater archaeology project to survey the seabed off a major prehistoric site, in hope of finding traces of what could be one of the earliest villages in Europe. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (AP)

No land, no problem

Maria Gallucci - Grist
(Getty/olsword)

Republicans are buying rooftop solar

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
(George Frey/Getty Images)

Big power distributor favors coal

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

California farmers turn to solar farming

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
Advertisement:
(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Electrifying news!

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Getty/olsword)

Southern discomfort: The fight for solar

Elise Hansen, Katarina Zimmer - Grist
FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, Christian Oggenfuss stands near solar panels on top of the living roof at the Odette Estate winery in Napa, Calif. A new estimate from the U.S. government shows that California met about half of the state's electricity demand for three hours on March 11, 2017--the state's goal is for 50 percent of all electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (AP)

Skepticism over Cali's solar mandate

Garth Heutel - The Conversation
(Shutterstock)

Better ways to foster solar innovation

Edward Barbier, Terry Iverson - The Conversation
« Previous
Page: 1
Next »
Advertisement: