Solar energy

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Solar energy is an increasingly attractive option for those seeking to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and move towards a more sustainable future. Solar panels that harness solar energy can power homes, businesses and even cities. Our expert guides will show how solar panels can provide you with a source of renewable and clean energy.

<p>Panels, batteries, smart meters and apps are revolutionising our approach to energy consumption </p>

How to harness renewable energy with smart home integration

<p>Glowing quartz rod at the end of the experimental device. Absorber is at about 1,050C</p>

New solar power technology could replace fossil fuels in manufacturing

Climate Lab Grown Diamonds

Lab-grown diamonds come with sparkling price tags, but many have cloudy sustainability claims

<p>Aerial view of Silves in Southern Portugal - one of the many towns which ran on sustainable energy for 6 days </p>

Portugal ran on renewables for six days – could UK ever do the same?

Everyday material from the kitchen could overhaul solar energy

Recycling Solar Panels

A recycling industry is growing for first-generation solar panels

<p>Representational: Italian authorities are investigating the cause of the blast</p>

Italian green car researchers die as prototype explodes during test

Fossil age may be winding down as solar, wind soared in power sector

<p>Maria Telkes</p>

Who was the ‘Sun Queen’ biophysicist who championed solar energy?

<p>The European Space agency plans to explore space-based solar power through its Solaris program</p>

ESA considers plan for orbiting solar farms that beam energy to Earth

<p>A solar power plant sits in Pavagada Tumkur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, India</p>

Solar power helped avoid $34bn in costs for seven Asian countries

<p>Huge solar energy output from Egypt will help provide clean energy to Europe via a massive undersea power cable</p>

Solar energy from Sahara to power European homes via undersea cable

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Ford’s chief takes dig at Musk while unveiling new solar investments

A solar energy breakthrough means stained glass windows could soon generate electricity.

Solar breakthrough paves way for power-producing colourful windows

Solar power from only one to two per cent of the Sahara could provide electricity for the whole of Europe

The Longer Read

Does the Sahara hold the key to unlocking unlimited solar power?

Israel's energy dilemma is captured in the northern coastal city of Hadera, where the country's largest coal-fired power station is set to be converted to gas

Israel has so much oil it doesn’t know what to do with it

File image of solar panels on house roof.

Home solar panel installations fall by 94% after subsidies cut

Energy provider Solarplicity banned from taking on new customers

People bask in the sunshine in Castle Park, Bristol

Solar sets new electricity record, supplying a quarter of demand

A field of solar panels at Cochin International Airport in southern India

India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar price slumps

Indian engineer positions solar panels at the under construction Roha Dyechem solar plant at Bhadla in the western Indian state of Rajasthan

The country where the price of solar is tumbling to record low

Dense smog has smothered much of China for several days in December

China to invest £291bn in renewable energy to combat pollution

The Tuticorin thermal power station in the Bay of Bengal, southern India

Revolutionary industrial plant reaches almost zero emissions

The solar array in Ta'u.

The new Tesla is powering an entire island with solar energy

Ultra-thin solar cells are flexible enough to bend around small objects, such as the 1 mm-thick edge of a glass slide.

Solar panels thinner than a human hair could power wearable technology

Mr Trump did not seem keen on any form of renewable energy in North Dakota

Donald Trump says wind power is ‘killing all the eagles’