In July, we relayed news that Andre Borschberg, a Swiss entrepreneur, had successfully completed a 24-hour flight in his solar-powered airplane dubbed the Solar Impulse. While it may be unfair to compare manned flight to unmanned sorties, leave it to the U.S. Defense Department and Boeing to blow Borschberg’s record completely out of the water [...]

After receiving $1.9 million in federal Recovery Act funds in late September, Stronghold Engineering has completed a 190-kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system atop a carport at a U.S. Naval Facility in Seal Beach, California.

The U.S. Department of Defense has developed two different types of portable renewable energy systems for frontline soldiers in Afghanistan to use.

As a distributed power resource, solar energy is not just changing the way Americans see their relationship to electric utilities. It’s also making our armed forces more mobile and less dependent on traditional sources of energy, which means less hauling gas around in convoys, which means making our troops safer in battle zones. Powering modern [...]