SPECIAL: Night Train joins in with Global Village and Strange Currency to celebrate National Bird Day. We’ll hear bird songs in hour one from Lady Blackbird, Bob Dorough, Anita O’Day, Stacey Kent, ...

As someone who spent several years as a workers’ rights organizer, Fredy Amador is intimately familiar with the financial struggles people face in the current economy. Northern Illinois’ skyrocketing ...

Solar PV generation overtook lignite for the first time in Germany and was only behind wind power. Image: Fraunhofer ISE/energy-charts.info. Germany installed 16.2GW of solar PV in 2025, according to ...

‘The community solar sector faced significant uncertainty in 2025,’ said Vihann Kong. Image: Ampion. While utility-scale solar continues to account for the majority of operational solar capacity in ...

The California Public Utility Commission has rejected the termination of Pacific Gas & Electric contracts, which would have closed the Ivanpah Solar Plant, due to “reliability” and the state’s “green” ...

At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun. Known as perihelion, this is the moment when our planet is closer to the sun than at any other point in the ...

Some people call it balcony solar. Others call it plug in solar. The idea is that people would be able to install small solar units at their home without getting a utility interconnection agreement.

ABSTRACT: A linear system with Fresnel reflectors as a concentrator was designed, built, and tested for solar cooking. It consists of 17 reflectors (blades) made of 1 mm thick aluminum sheet metal, ...

Dec. 31 was the last day to qualify for a federal tax credit for installation of rooftop solar panels. That’s just one of the policy changes in Washington that clouded the outlook for the solar ...

Over the summer, scientist Martin Muggli began seriously considering installing solar panels on his Lafayette home. He had already helped his sister plan her own system and thought he could get his ...