As energy costs continue to soar and extreme weather events become more frequent, homeowners are increasingly turning to solar power solutions. Recent data shows residential solar installations grew ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

A fire at a battery supply bank in a house in The Villas served as a wake-up call about the potential risks of solar energy systems. The bank, which stored energy for a rooftop solar panel system, ...

It is often said that LFP batteries are safer than NMC storage systems, but recent research suggests that this is an overly simplified view. In the rare event of catastrophic failure, the off-gas from ...

Hooking up solar panels to batteries is the norm for storing extra energy produced when the sun is shining. To streamline this process, researchers have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be ...

A low-carbon future rests on an essential, yet also problematic, technology. Lithium-ion rechargeable batteries — already widely used in laptops and smartphones — will be the beating heart of electric ...