Discover how to create a functional DIY solar panel using a compact disc, copper foil, aluminum foil, and LEDs in this engaging science experiment. Watch as we assemble the components, connect the ...

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Horticulure professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – ...

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, ...

Wisconsin has launched a groundbreaking project that could reshape how the state generates and uses electricity. The Paris Solar-Battery Park in Kenosha County combines a massive solar farm with a ...

Solar panels at the 180-megawatt Madison Fields Solar project in Pike Township, Madison County. The project is one of about a dozen large-scale solar projects that have state approval, are under ...

A sign along a rural Miller Township road in Knox County proclaims support for solar power. A controversial solar project in Knox County has received approval from the Ohio Power Siting Board, which ...

Avangrid has started delivering electricity from the 150 MW Powell Creek solar project in Putnam County, Ohio. Approved by the state siting board in 2021, the project is actively exporting electricity ...

Near 9,000 solar panels now line Trap Pond Road in Georgetown, Delaware—delivering clean, affordable energy to roughly 750 homes and small businesses, including many low-income families. The site ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

Xcel Energy has curtailed plans to build a large-scale solar farm spread across thousands of acres in western Wisconsin, cancelling the second phase of the plan, while moving ahead with the first ...

MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI — A large solar developer is once again eyeing 1,500 acres in rural Muskegon County, but residents are not backing down. The White River Township Planning Commission on Tuesday, ...