Solar structures – solar awnings, carports, pavilions, and even bike racks – have become a major trend nationally, and are picking up steam locally. As a means to harness the growing interest in ...

Parking lots and garage rooftops offer expansive, un-shaded and unobstructed spaces ideal for housing commercial-scale solar energy systems. For years, solar photovoltaics (PV) have proven to be a ...

Researchers at the Norwegian institute Sintef are testing a special floating structure that Equinor wants to deploy in offshore waters. The structure is built with an anchoring system that is claimed ...

Helioplant, a patented vertical photovoltaic (PV) framing system developed by Austrian engineering firm Ehoch2, is designed to reduce snow buildup on alpine solar installations. The structure features ...

Design a year-round solar greenhouse that is entirely self-sufficient, relying only on the sun to provide all of its heating needs while growing more than traditional greenhouses and using less energy ...

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages ...

Princeton researchers have found a simple and economical way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the ...

Swedish architect Mans Tham went halfway around the world to find inspiration for this insanely awesome design for a serpent-shaped solar skin for the Sana Monica freeway. This renovation of existing ...