SAN ANTONIO — As inflation causes mortgages to rise, so does the cost of energy such as electricity. But what if a house was completely self-sustainable? That was the idea that motivated a group of ...

Solar-powered homes often are touted as saving on electric bills. But a unique house built by Drury University and Crowder College students can also save lives. The students, with help from ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The house is cool, but most homes are these days, in the sweltering summer heat. Here, though, it should be hot. Or at least, the air-conditioning should be ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Michigan Solar House, a completely solar-powered, renewable energy dependent 459 square foot ...

How difficult is it to design a house fully powered by the sun? That’s what the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to find out. To do this, they have staged, once again, the Solar decathlon, a ...

Equipped with a 9kW building integrated solar power system that can operate independently in the event a storm shuts down the grid, SURE HOUSE also boasts super-tight insulation for optimum energy ...

What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare. German ...

Generally, buying a house with solar panels is viewed positively by valuers, especially when the panels are owned outright ...

Dean Solon stands out as one of the very few self-made billionaires to emerge from the U.S. solar industry, following the tremendous 2021 initial public offering on the Nasdaq of his solar-equipment ...

You don't need to build a house from scratch to take advantage of smart new solar technology, but that's exactly what 18 college and university teams did for the Solar Decathlon, a competition ...

Bila Solar, a U.S.-based solar panel manufacturer, will open its doors to customers, partners, media, analysts and industry professionals Dec 3 and 4 for an Open House at its Indianapolis factory. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Friday to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations ...