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Last month, an energy think tank released some rare good news for the climate: The world is on track to install 29 percent more solar capacity this year than it did the year before, according to a ...

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When property developer Anver Essop bought land in Cape Town's gang-ridden Cape Flats area, people laughed at him for ...

A coating 100 times thinner than a human hair could be “ink-jetted” onto your backpack, cell phone or car roof to harness the sun’s energy, new research shows, in a development that could reduce the ...

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest ...

Solar panels can save you hundreds of dollars a year on your energy bills, but sometimes it can be hard to visualize. Yet one homeowner addressed that and shared their results after switching to solar ...

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In 1812 Frederick Winsor, a madcap entrepreneur, invented the public utility. The idea behind his Gas Light and Coke company, which would supply residents of London, was that instead of each household ...