During June's heat wave, batteries and solar played a major role in keeping power reliable and lowering costs. It's a trend ...

It's hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the ...

Solar air heaters are a great way to take advantage of the sun’s heat and save money on your heating bills. Learn more about solar air heaters here!

These heaters encompass a variety of products, such as solar hot water heaters, solar pool heaters and solar space heaters that can warm up small areas, like a camping tent or greenhouse.

A normal water heater, at least one based on electric resistive heaters, attempts to maintain a small range of temperatures within the insulated tank.

The mysterious heating of the sun’s corona might be powered by miniature solar flares dubbed 'campfires,' discovered by the European-US Solar Orbiter mission last year, a new study suggests.

If you're looking for a green way to heat up a small indoor space, Seattle resident Peter Rowan shows you how to make a solar powered heater using a bunch of leftover soda cans. The panel is ...

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a microflare—a small yet powerful solar explosion. The images are helping ...

Our new mini split system is working so well to cool our home now that summer's here, we're considering using its heat pump to heat our home in winter without any additional heat source.

Solar power is particularly suited to coping with summer heat as the sun's radiation is strongest around the hottest part of the day, when electricity demand for cooling is also at its highest.

Using the power of the sun to heat your water is one of the simplest ways that you can make your home more energy efficient. Heating water usually accounts for 40 percent of an average family's ...