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Solar is a broad topic but our experts have you covered, from information around solar energy to how solar power is transferred to the grid. If you are considering integrating renewable solar energy into your home then you can find detailed information through our complete guide to solar panels.

Biden Earth Day

Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants

YE Clean Energy

The year in clean energy: Wind, solar and batteries grow

Owners-Solar

Electric vehicles owners and solar rooftops find mutual attraction

<p>A company based in the Science Park of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Sun to Market, together with UC3M researchers, has developed a new, improved design for the central receiver of a solar thermal energy plant</p>

Solar towers can double energy output by running day and night

<p>Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar thermal power station, in the Mojave Desert near Nipton, California on February 27, 2022</p>

Solar will make up more than half of new US grid power in 2023

<p>Scientists propose that shafts of abandoned mines could be repurposed to store vast amounts of energy in the form of gravity batteries</p>

Abandoned mines can store enough energy to power planet, study claims

Kevin Cottrell (left) and Eoin Aher, with the solar panes at The Old Oak, Cork (Darragh Kane/PA)

Solar-powered pub uses renewable energy to beat cost-of-living crisis

<p>Castañer's bakery is equipped with rooftop solar panels that are networked into the microgrid</p>

How a solar grid became a town’s saviour in blackout-prone Puerto Rico

<p>Solar panels in Shanghai. China is on course to build nearly half of all new global renewable power capacity over the next five years</p>

Renewable energy ‘turbocharged’ by global energy crisis, says IEA

<p>A solar farm in Zimbabwe highlighting the potential from the continent’s vast solar resource </p>

How African nations could become world’s solar superpowers

<p>A solar prominence as seen by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2017</p>

ESA’s solar probe captures the reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field

<p>Government plans will ensure ‘cold homes on a warming planet’, critics of new plan, blocking onshore wind, say</p>

Government’s energy strategy ‘will make Putin happy,’ experts say

<p>Ministers say the plans will boost clean and affordable energy - but also support fossil fuel drilling in North Sea</p>

LiveNews

PM admits UK will keep burning North Sea fossil fuels - live

Wind turbines at sunrise off the north east coast of England

Renewable power ‘defies’ Covid-19 pandemic with record growth in 2020

Perovskite has been hailed as a ‘miracle material’ for its potential to radically transform everything from solar energy harvesting to internet speeds

Solar breakthrough realises potential of ‘miracle material’

The sun is setting on coal-fired power in the UK

Britain coal-free for two months – longest since industrial revolution

The development on the north Kent coast will consist of 880,000 solar panels if built

UK’s largest solar farm set to go ahead despite environmental concerns

Breeze and sunshine to see high levels of renewable power generated over bank holiday weekend

Renewable energy providers to be paid to switch off as demand plummets