<!– googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘post_link_unit’); }); –> View larger. | Solar system distances to scale showing the newly discovered 2018 VG18 – nicknamed Farout – compared to other known solar system objects. Illustration via Roberto Molar Candanosa/Scott S. Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science. Astronomers have discovered another small object in the outer solar system, the most distant solar system object yet known. …

New Orleans renters and others who want the benefits of solar power but can’t install panels on their roofs would be able to buy into a “community solar” program under rules recently approved by a City Council committee. But it remains to be seen if the program would bring savings to the customers it is intended to serve, and criticism …

PARIS — More than 1,000 acres of agricultural land in the town of Paris may be used to harness solar energy rather than to harvest crops by the year 2021. Invenergy LLC is moving forward with plans to lease roughly 1,400 acres of land for a solar farm, Robert Howard, a development manager with the company, said Tuesday. “We have …

As advancements are made in both photovoltaic technology and solar-powered car design, efficiency rates have been skyrocketing. Nowhere has this been more apparent, or exciting, than in the field of solar-powered racing. A team from the University of NSW just obliterated the previous solar-powered car efficiency record. The students crossed Australia from Perth to Sydney on just $50 worth of …

The residential solar industry has been through a lot of ups and downs in the past few years. SolarCity was the top solar company in 2014 before running into rising costs, falling installations, and now a rapidly deteriorating business after it was acquired by Tesla. Read on… https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/08/22/sunpower-is-gaining-steam-in-residential-solar.aspx

In a quest to cut the cost of clean electricity, power utilities around the world are supersizing their solar farms. Nowhere is that more apparent than in southern Egypt, where what will be the world’s largest solar farm — a vast collection of more than 5 million photovoltaic panels — is now taking shape. When it’s completed next year, the …

Duke Energy, one of the country’s largest coal utilities, announced Friday that it will build three large solar power plants in the coal mining state of Kentucky to complement its coal and natural gas power plants.”Our customers want solar,” said Jim Henning, president of Duke Energy’s Ohio and Kentucky division, in announcing the new solar power projects. Read more… http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/utility-giant-announces-solar-plants-in-the-heart-of-coal-country/article/2628705 …