For the nerds out there who want to learn fun details of solar technology without taking engineering classes, we have a brief intro to solar parabolic troughs. Nope — these don’t look like the panels that grace the rooftops of homes and buildings to generate clean electricity. Parabolic troughs are solar thermal technology: they use [...]

Utility-scale solar power requires setting up large arrays of solar panels on open land. Since large tracts of sunny, unused land are pretty hard to come by, large-scale solar developers occasionally face opposition from stakeholders who ascribe other value to land that could otherwise be developed for solar. The latest of many land use debates [...]

Behind their shared pride in the Golden State’s green incentives, two types of renewable energy proponents are fueling a debate over the direction California’s solar movement—and perhaps that of the nation—should take. Most of the high-profile solar development projects in California and elsewhere across the country are large-scale power plants, which sell electricity to utilities [...]

SEPA’s second annual report on which national utilities have the most installed megawatts of solar capacity has just been released.