Solar is forecast to displace natural gas in the middle of the day and in the summer on the Texas grid, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Texas’s electricity mix of energy ...

Renewable power advocates often claim wind and solar are less expensive energy sources than coal, natural gas and nuclear power. Such a claim begs the question of why the heavily subsidized Ivanpah ...

A 19th century invention is responsible for the solar technology that soon will be contending with coal and natural gas as a primary source of energy.

A portion of the Eleven Mile Solar Center under construction. (Courtesy: Ørsted) U.S. electricity generation is expected to increase by 3% – 121 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) – this year compared to ...

According to the EIA’s numbers, about 20 GW of new capacity was added in the first half of this year, and solar accounts for 60 percent of it. Over a third of the solar additions occurred in just two ...

Drawing energy from the sun is a growing way of providing electricity across the United States. NWS employee from Morehead City, N.C. National Weather Service South Carolina’s effort to build a large ...

Regarding “Texas leads the U.S. in renewable energy. Next up: Your home. | Opinion,” (Aug. 26): I am a proponent of wind and solar energy and generally agree with Matthew Boms' premise. As a former ...