A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

What started as a premise in a UC Merced lab culminated with a commemoration of Project Nexus, California’s first solar canal project. On Wednesday, state leaders gathered at the Project Nexus sites ...

Solar farms need space. Lots of it. Build them on land, and you're competing with farms, forests, and wildlife. So Germany ...

Across Europe's lakes and reservoirs, a new generation of solar panels is rising—floating, intelligent and ready to reshape the energy landscape. But to scale up, key challenges still need to be ...

One of the biggest benefits of solar power is its lack of emissions, but that doesn't mean that it can't have other ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A novel solar power project just went online in California’s Central Valley, with ...

No matter how handy you are, you might have a reason to hire a professional to install your solar panels. Here are the pros ...

As of mid-2025, the United States has approximately 248 GW of installed solar capacity, according to Wood Mackenzie’s “US Solar Market Insight: 2024 year in review” report, published by the Solar ...