Released ahead of the U.S. Senate’s consideration of the 2026 farm bill, data shows that land used for utility-scale solar ...

Large-scale solar power generates about 4% of all electricity in the U.S. Capacity has almost doubled in the last year. Smaller-scale installations – including solar panels on things like homes and ...

As PV projects move into more complex terrain, hybrid configurations and grid-supporting roles, Solargis sees higher-resolution meteorological data, physical modelling and quality-controlled AI as ...

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has found that solar only occupies 0.07% of U.S. farmland in an interactive ...

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that a developing El Niño is expected to strengthen ...

Proposed changes to the US Bureau of Land Management’s Western Solar Plan would clear the way for large solar energy projects to be built across vast tracts of public lands in 11 western states. The ...

The Biden administration has outlined how it could dramatically expand the public lands available to streamline solar development in the Western U.S., a major step that could help sustain the surge in ...

China is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan Plateau, where nomadic people have grazed herds of ...

Federal land managers last week released an updated roadmap for solar energy development across 11 Western states, a plan that opens about 32 million acres of federal lands to utility-scale solar ...

DESERT CENTER, Calif.—Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar development in North America in the heart of ...

“The Texas market is appealing for solar because it’s a major energy economy in the U.S. and one of the states where solar is easiest [from a permitting perspective] and has lower cost land,” Scott ...

Entergy Louisiana’s proposal to add up to three gigawatts of economic solar power to its generation portfolio has been approved by the Louisiana Public Service Commission, marking what the utility ...