A huge solar power station in China is generating clean energy, producing salt from sunlight, and serving as a shrimp-breeding site. State-owned China Huadian Corporation said the 1-gigawatt (GW) ...

This UFO shaped plant in Spain is attracting much attention as it is a 2,650 towering structure able to generate solar power ...

The solar thermal power plant business is all about big: Square miles of mirrors in the desert that surround 600-foot-tall towers to generate massive megawatts of electricity for multibillion-dollar ...

The Department of Energy just invested $737 million into the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada, which will generate energy well into the night by using molten salt as an energy storage ...

Solar power: works great when the sun is out. It works less great when the sun isn’t out, which happens every night, as you may have noticed. To fulfill any dreams of living in a world powered by the ...

The sun already shines year-round in Nevada. Now, a California company says it has found a way to harness sunlight around the clock as well, and Nevadans soon could see the resulting solar energy ...

There is a sign on 1300 East just north of 2100 South in Sugar House, declaring Salt Lake City as a "Solar America City" that is "committed to a sustainable solar future" (above photo). If you've ...

Editor’s note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about ...

In the energy world, the ability to store electricity at an affordable price is the treasure sought by utility engineers and financial wizards. SolarReserve believes it has found a solution. The Santa ...

Current approaches to water desalination are tremendously expensive and energy-intensive, so the search is very much on for new technologies that can get the job done more efficiently. Scientists in ...

Salt Lake City ranks in the top 10 of nearly 70 U.S. cities for the solar power generated per person, a new report says. Utah’s capital city ranked ahead of San Antonio and behind Riverside, Calif., ...