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California officials want to reduce the financial credits that households with rooftop solar panels can earn for excess energy. "It's the utilities preserving their monopoly," says one homeowner.

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty.

In a typical electrical grid environment, electricity generated by a utility-scale solar farm costs about seven times more than electricity from a natural gas generating plant. Yet many people think s

India is finalizing a $1 billion capital subsidy plan to bolster its solar manufacturing industry, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as part of a wider effort to reduce dependence on China and profit from the global energy transition.

Solar energy equipment supplier ES Foundry has agreed to deliver 300MW of solar cells, manufactured in the US, to Bila Solar.

The amount of energy from renewables hit 24% thanks to a record amount of solar generating capacity added last year, said a new report.

Countries around the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Communications.

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Switching to solar helps businesses stabilize their energy costs. Instead of dealing with unpredictable spikes in utility prices, companies can lock in long-term savings. Plus, let’s not forget the financial perks: tax credits, government incentives, and rebates can make the initial investment much more manageable.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel inaugurated the first of 92 solar parks on Friday as part of a Chinese-backed plan to ease hours-long blackouts across the Caribbean island nation.