An artificial intelligence-powered camera developed by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory tracks bird behaviors around solar panels (Credit: DOE, screengrab from video) Birds and solar-powered generation have a bit of…
Pine Gate Renewables’ 81 MW Sugar Solar project in Yadkinville, North Carolina. Sugar was one of the projects awarded under Duke Energy’s Competitive Procurement of Renewable Energy program and is…
The Willow Solar Farm, once a 140-kilowatt project, has grown to 1.2 megawatts, making it one of the largest utility-scale facilities in the state. Courtesy: Alaska Energy Authoriy) Alaska is…
Credit: SolarPanelRecycling.com) By Kristi E. Swartz / Floodlight Johanna Neumann was watching Monday Night Football with her husband when a commercial earlier this week caught her eye. The 30-second ad…
REC Silicon’s manufacturing facility in Moses Lake, Washington. Courtesy: REC Silicon) The U.S. solar supply chain received a major boost today, courtesy of the Department of the Treasury clarifying that…
Xcel Energy’s Sherburne County (Sherco) Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, near Becker, Minnesota. (Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) This Week in Cleantech is…
Image by Como una Reina from Pixabay ) Solar module manufacturing capacity in the United States now exceeds 31 gigawatts (GW) — a nearly four-fold increase since the Inflation Reduction…
A solar array in rural Illinois. Credit: Joseph Gage / Creative Commons ) As renewable energy development accelerates, securing optimal sites for solar and wind projects is increasingly challenging in…
Boise Solar, a 54 MWac solar project developed by Origis Energy. Courtesy: Origis Energy) For the first time, the Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners has voted to approve a…
