As the days get longer and the sun shines brighter, it's the perfect season to think about harnessing that energy for your home. Amid the environmental concerns, electricity costs are climbing and ...

The technical answer (bear with us) is that the output of a residential solar panel can be anywhere from 100 to 500 watts, depending on the capacity of the equipment and its operating conditions. Most ...

Solar panel efficiency determines how much sunlight your panels can turn into electricity and how much you’ll save on bills ...

In the first articles of our “Solar 101” series, (Is my roof ready for solar?) and (Attaching your solar system to your roof) we discussed how the age and physical characteristics of a roof can affect ...

If you have a lot of questions about whether you should add a solar energy system to your home, that's a good thing. It's an important undertaking that requires budgeting and both short-term and ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Portable solar panels neatly ride the line between fallback options during a power outage and convenient sources of electricity on the go. Solar power is the fastest growing source of electricity in ...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways, some obvious and some less so. Now, scientists have quantified an effect that lies a few links down the chain, finding that solar ...