US big-box retail and grocery stores have enough rooftop solar potential to power more than 7.9 million homes – utilizing all that unused space for clean energy is a no-brainer. UnderstandSolar is a ...

Overlanding and camping inevitably involve a lot of gear eating up valuable vehicle roof space. Crossbars, bike racks, kayak carriers, cargo boxes, roof-top tents, jerry can holders and solar panels ...

Solar panels cover the roof of a Sam's Club store on April 22, 2009, in Glendora, California. Solar energy offers a cheap, renewable source of electricity that could reduce and, eventually, eliminate ...

They cost £2,500 and are the size of a dishwasher. Can these new 'solar blackboxes' really stockpile free power? Could solar panels be about to get more lucrative? New technology claims to store ...

Solar box cookers have been popular with campers and back-to-the-landers for decades. The Kyoto Box solar cooker, an updated design, has just won first place in the Financial Times Climate Change ...

Somewhere out in the desert, a giant black box the size of six shipping containers sucks in sand and spits out solar panels. Maana Electric’s system produces panels with an efficiency of about 12 ...