Goodman South Campus solar project powers learning and sustainability

Madison College’s Goodman South Early Learning Campus will add a solar array that cuts energy costs, provides student ...
Phys.org

Machine learning accelerates discovery of solar-cell perovskites

An EPFL research project has developed a method based on machine learning to quickly and accurately search large databases, leading to the discovery of 14 new materials for solar cells. As we ...
Ars Technica

Solar and wind keep getting cheaper as the field becomes smarter

As solar and wind energy ramps up in the United States, the industries have gotten better at installing and operating their facilities. This experience can be seen in how the facilities are financed.
Wired

Solar Panels Power New Schools—and New Ways of Learning

Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip—to her own school. After a few minutes, she looked up from ...
cleantechnica

Exposing the Learning-Curve Myth: Why Enhanced Geothermal Cannot Follow Solar’s Cost Trajectory

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of ...
The Conversation

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

An astonishing 82% decrease in the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy since 2010 has given the world a fighting chance to build a zero-emissions energy system which might be less costly than the ...
Engineering

How Do You Count Every Solar Panel in the U.S.? Machine Learning and a Billion Satellite Images

Solar power installations have been increasing in both the residential and commercial spaces, but it is nearly impossible to know exact numbers and locations of these panels. As reported by the ...
Mongabay

From chalkboards to e-learning, solar boosts schooling in an Indian floodplain

On remote river islands in eastern India’s Assam state, solar power is helping children access education more reliably, reports Mongabay India’s Shailesh Shrivastava. Schools in Assam’s Brahmaputra ...