Passive solar architecture is a design strategy that optimizes a building’s energy efficiency and long-term sustainability. By relying on a building site’s solar orientation and climate, sustainable ...

Drawing on his experience of flood risk engineering, Hossein Gheovasi makes the case for early, accurate hydrology in solar ...

Designer Marjan van Aubel has collaborated with Dutch architecture studio V8 Architects to create a pavilion topped with multicoloured solar panels, which Dezeen has captured in the third and final ...

The Small Home, Big Decisions series follows Jennifer and her husband, Tyler, as they build a self-reliant homestead on a piece of country property in northeastern Kansas. The series will delve into ...

While first developed as a practical power source during the 1950s, solar systems were too expensive for mainstream use until the 1970s. Starting from their early use to power Cold War era military ...

Butterfly wings could offer a unique solution to one of the biggest problems faced by solar panels, which is ‘sunlight that bounces away before it can be used.’ A study published in ‘Solar Energy’ ...

Artificial intelligence tools are making their way into the solar industry, from small rooftop residential solar projects to the largest utility-scale solar facilities. Three new AI-supported tools ...

Sunnova’s partnership with Open Solar looks to cut residential rooftop PV design time from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. Image: Sunnova. The traditional process of designing rooftop solar installations ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenSolar, Inc., a software company keenly focused on empowering solar installers with the world’s most accurate and entirely free solar design and sales platform, and ...