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More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar's footprint

More energy on less land: The drive to shrink solar's footprint

With the push for renewables leading to land-use conflicts, building highly efficient utility-scale solar farms on ever-smaller tracts of land has become a top priority.

agrivoltaics : crops under solar panels

Growing crops under solar panels? Now there’s a bright idea

In the new scientific (and literal) field of agrivoltaics, researchers are showing how panels can increase yields and reduce water use on a warming planet.
R&D spending is not a technological solution
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Why the U.S. doesn’t dominate the solar-panel industry anymore

America invented silicon solar cells in the 1950s. It spent more on solar R&D than any other country in the 1980s. It lost its technological advantage anyway.
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Fort Chipewyan hopes to have Canada’s largest off-grid solar project operating by 2020
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Fort Chipewyan hopes to have Canada’s largest off-grid solar project operating by 2020

The Alberta government will contribute $3.3 million towards Three Nations Energy LP to help build 7,500 solar panels in the community.

Solar-power benefits aren’t reaching communities of color

Solar-power benefits aren’t reaching communities of color

A new study finds racial and ethnic disparities in rooftop solar adoption, even controlling for income and homeownership.
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Thin, flexible new solar cells could soon line your shirt
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Thin, flexible new solar cells could soon line your shirt

A new kind of solar cell called a perovskite is improving rapidly, bringing the prospect of solar-powered vehicles, clothing, and windows closer to reality.
Sunrun gives Tesla a fight in the home solar business
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Sunrun gives Tesla a fight in the home solar business

Tesla is relying on showrooms to sell electric cars, solar roofs and batteries. But a California rival has made inroads into the residential business.
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