Solar PV has met two-thirds (61%) of the US electricity demand growth in 2025, according to a report from think tank Ember.

It’s been a rollercoaster of a year for clean energy. There’s no better way to show those ups and downs than with a chart, and luckily, we made a lot of those this year. As 2025 comes to a close, ...

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts solar energy will be the leading force behind this year’s growth in the electric power industry. So far in January, EIA has issued three brief ...

Solar’s contribution to European electricity consumption rose in the first half of 2025, but was offset by falling wind power generation. Image: Fraunhofer ISE/energy-charts.info Many European ...

The electric power sector — which generates and distributes electricity to homes, businesses, factories, electric vehicles, and farming operations — produces 25% of heat-trapping pollution in the U.S.

Coal accounts for 69% of Kentucky’s electricity production and 86% of its power grid emissions. U.S. coal electricity production fell 57% over the last decade while wind and solar output nearly ...

Increasing solar power generation in the United States by 15% could lead to an annual reduction of 8.54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, according to researchers at Rutgers, the ...

Researchers and startups worldwide are developing advanced solar technologies, such as perovskite-silicon tandem cells and orb-shaped panels, to significantly enhance efficiency and energy production.

Solar generation is forecast to meet roughly half of the growth in global electricity demand through to 2027, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Electricity 2025 report. The agency’s ...

Paul Hume receives funding from the Marsden Fund (Royal Society Te Apārangi), the Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment, the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, ...