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Researchers have developed new chemistry to achieve commercially relevant stability and performance for perovskite solar cells. Solar power is not only the fastest growing energy technology in recent ...

When President George H.W. Bush renamed the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1991, he touted the “outstanding progress” accomplished at the ...

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have the word “renewable” in its title, the U.S. Department of ...

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory would lose a third of its funding, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory would lose more than half. National research laboratories in Colorado, Oregon ...

The federal government research organization that has been devoted for half a century to renewable energy development has had the word “renewable” stripped from its name. The Trump administration, ...

Americans who live near large-scale solar facilities have more positive than negative views of the projects, but only when the plants are more than a quarter-mile away and smaller than 100 megawatts, ...

A new solar device generates 15 times more energy: a breakthrough in thermoelectric generators converts solar heat into electricity.

A Department of Energy official says the National Renewable Energy Lab is “no longer picking and choosing energy sources.” The Department of Energy announced Monday it is renaming the National ...

Rows of solar panels at UL-Lafayette's solar energy lab Rows of solar panels generate electricity at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette’s solar research lab, Aug. 9, 2021. (Wes Muller/Louisiana ...