Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) addresses the land use and intermittency challenges of terrestrial solar and wind by providing 24/7, baseload, and dispatchable carbon-free electricity from orbit.

California-based startup Aetherflux is working on a satellite constellation that would send solar power back to Earth. Solar power would be collected in space and then beamed down through lasers ...

Row after row of photovoltaic panels strung across the landscape are a sign of a community's commitment to renewable energy. In the case of agrivoltaics, crops, livestock, or pollinator habitat occupy ...

China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of animals for millennia. It’s not the first time Tibetan regions have become a ...

Energy companies are moving solar projects to unconventional sites like deserts, farms, and waterways to avoid using arable land. China’s “solar great wall” in the Kubuqi Desert and canal-based ...

Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides ...

Drive through the plains of Iowa or Kansas and you’ll see more than rows of corn, wheat and soybeans. You’ll also see towering wind turbines spinning above fields and solar panels shining in the sun ...