THE roll-out of solar boxes in the local market has been giving homeowners access to reliable backup energy while also helping to reduce electricity costs.

Marin high school students who like to work with their hands got to make and take home a solar box over the weekend. The event, a maker’s workshop, was organized by the Marin nonprofit Big Skills, ...

Sun Flare Systems is a Canadian company that has developed a solar-powered backup generator. Designed to provide power in cases of outage and disaster, the patent-pending SOS in a Box kit is basically ...

US big-box retail and grocery stores have enough rooftop solar potential to power more than 7.9 million homes – utilizing all that unused space for clean energy is a no-brainer. UnderstandSolar is a ...

Reducing the stubborn soft costs of solar + storage is a much-discussed topic that will only become more important as the ...

SAN DIEGO — The solar eclipse is less than two weeks away. While San Diego is not in the path of totality, people can still safely view the partial eclipse with solar glasses or they can make their ...

Tyler Gerardot is an electrical maintenance technician Sweetwater Sound. He maintains the company's 260 rooftop solar panels. Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — ...

In the not-so-distant future, cities might be blanketed with solar-powered antennae sprouting off buildings, street posts, and billboards. The gadgets can fill in mobile dead zones block by block and ...