The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...
This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...
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Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...
What started as a premise in a UC Merced lab culminated with a commemoration of Project Nexus, California’s first solar canal project. On Wednesday, state leaders gathered at the Project Nexus sites ...
Horticulure professor and chair Ajay Nair plants bell peppers at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm at Iowa State University in June 2024. Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – ...
As of mid-2025, the United States has approximately 248 GW of installed solar capacity, according to Wood Mackenzie’s “US Solar Market Insight: 2024 year in review” report, published by the Solar ...
SpaceX’s idea is to use solar panel arrays to power floating data centers it calls AI compute satellites.