Plug-in solar has remained in the shadows because of a lack of safety standards and often costly requirements imposed by ...

Passive cooling, like the shade a tree provides, has been around forever. Recently, researchers have been exploring how to turbo charge a passive cooling technique — known as radiative or sky cooling ...

Landlords could be pushed into installing either a heat pump or solar panels under Ed Miliband’s latest net zero drive, ...

Americans’ investment in solar panels has ramped up mightily since the passage, in August 2022, of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which offers a generous federal tax credit to homeowners who ...

From a distance, the energy system on top of a college residence hall in Omaha, Nebraska looks like photovoltaic panels. But as you get closer, it becomes clear that this is something different, with ...

DOI: Economics of Grid-Tied Solar Photovoltaic Systems Coupled to Heat Pumps: The Case of Northern Climates of the U.S. and Canada Two new Michigan Tech studies show how heating with electric heat ...

Researchers from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have demonstrated a hybrid system for drying woody biomass that utilizes both solar thermal energy and a heat pump. “We have indeed ...

Solar Brother has announced the launch of SunAéro, a solar heating system that heats and renews the air in rooms measuring 20 m² to 60 m². The system combines PV and thermal energy to heat, renew or ...

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