In the not-so-distant future, cities might be blanketed with solar-powered antennae sprouting off buildings, street posts, and billboards. The gadgets can fill in mobile dead zones block by block and ...

Marin high school students who like to work with their hands got to make and take home a solar box over the weekend. The event, a maker’s workshop, was organized by the Marin nonprofit Big Skills, ...

Tyler Gerardot is an electrical maintenance technician Sweetwater Sound. He maintains the company's 260 rooftop solar panels. Indiana is expected to add a lot of solar power in the next five years — ...

US big-box retail and grocery stores have enough rooftop solar potential to power more than 7.9 million homes – utilizing all that unused space for clean energy is a no-brainer. UnderstandSolar is a ...

Sunlight has a couple of advantages over your traditional gas and coal. It’s cheap, it’s powerful, and there’s a lot of it. But there’s a barrier to entry — to harness solar power, you need your own ...

America’s big-box retail and grocery stores could fulfill half of their own electricity needs and generate enough clean electricity to power more than 7.9 million U.S. homes if they covered their ...

This is part of a series on distributed renewable energy posted to Grist. It originally appeared on Energy Self-Reliant States, a resource of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project.