Solar panel pollution is not something you often hear about, but one team is working to make clean power even cleaner. Read on

Renewable energies, vehicle-to-grid technologies, second-life battery energy storage and cloud platforms: a combination of all of these is being used to help Porto Santo become the world’s first “Smart Fossil Free Island.” Read on

Plants have been producing their own solar energy for half a billion years. Now humanity is catching up on replicating their photosynthetic processes. Read on

Usually, snow spells bad news for solar panels. But a new silicone device is looking to keep the power flowing, even when covered in snow. Read on

A Portuguese startup has created a plug and play photovoltaic system that makes it easier than ever for people to become solar energy producers. Read on

How do you power a tropical island with little land, but over 300 days of sun a year? The solution: putting photovoltaic systems out to sea. Read on

Solar power trade-offs are a classic problem for clean energy solutions — the cheapest solar panels are usually the least efficient, because they don’t use complicated manufacturing processes. Read on

There's another way to generate power from our oceans - and a team at the University of Edinburgh, working with researchers in Italy, have shown encouraging results from initial work. Both wave and tidal energy harvesting remain incredibly important methods for generating renewable energy from sources that don't stop at night or need wind to work. Read on

While the concept of storing thermal energy in molten salt has been around for decades, a new approach - from one of Google's sister companies - combines hot energy with cold to create a temperature difference that can be utilised to generate power. Read on