The Solar Roadway is a series of structurally engineered solar panels that idea that will replace petroleum-based asphalt roads with Solar Road Panels that collect and store solar energy to be used by our homes and businesses. The renewable energy replaces the need for the current fossil fuels used for the generation of electricity, cutting [...]

Solar airplane the Sunseeker II, will be flying over Europe this Spring.
Eric Lentz Gauthier of Solar Flight says, “The exact dates and destinations that the tour will cover are not set in stone right now. The first leg will be from Freidrichshafen, Germany down to Sicily and then back up to Switzerland. From there the [...]

California utility company PG&E said Tuesday it plans to develop 500 megawatts of solar power, its largest-ever plan to build and invest in ground- and rooftop-mounted solar energy generation systems. The company plans to spend about $1.4 billion on the project and hopes the solar generation could serve up to 150,000 homes.
Prompted by changes [...]

The cost of solar power is dropping, numbers from Solarbuzz are showing. U.S. panel prices have fallen 4 cents since December to $4.81 per watt of peak capacity, while European panel prices are down 6 euro cents to €4.62 per watt.  Industry insiders are saying that prices are back to where they were five years [...]

Wood and asphalt shingles are so last century! Solar shingles, made of solar cells, function like conventional shingles, but help bring down that nasty energy bill.  Most Solar Shingles are 12 inches wide (when stacked have 5 inches of exposed area) by 86 inches long and can be stapled directly to the roofing cloth. Although [...]

Jenkins High School (not pictured above) in Savannah, Georgia, just added a new solar panel which will not only save them on energy bills, but teach the students about going green and alternative energy.
Mike Joyner, an executive of Georgia Power, and one of the strongest advocates behind Jenkin’s new solar panel said, “Green energy has [...]

ZTE of China just unveiled the world’s first low-cost cell solar powered cell phone. The Coral-200-Solar uses a small solar panel on the back of the phone to receive its energy.
Charge time to talk time is 4:1 with it taking one hour in the sun to get enough juice for 15 minutes of conversation.
ZTE general [...]

President Obama is making good on his promise to fund and explore renewable energy and took the time out of his busy scheudle today to tour a solar-power facility at the Denver Museum of Nature and Sciences. Today, Obama signed the $787 billion economic stimulus package at the museum and the tour was to highlight [...]

Concentrating solar technology is the new solar technology to be implemented in California, which hopes to generate 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. In concentrated solar technology, reflective mirrors are used to concentrate light onto a liquid to make steam. This steam then converts energy into electricity with the help of [...]

If you’re thinking about installing solar panels, you might be pleased to hear that researchers in Australia are working on a project to develop a spray-on coating for solar panels, which will both bring down the cost and improve the efficiency of solar panels.
A new company, Spark Solar, is working in conjunction with Australian National [...]