SOLAR ENERGY

Apple's Tim Cook spoke about the company's new HQ at a Climate Week event in New York City.

India has set a target of generating 15 percent of its domestic power from renewable energy sources by 2020.

The Japanese electronics firm already stopped its U.S. and U.K. solar panel production lines earlier this year.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts, energy storage firm once received a $4 million Department of Energy grant to develop an “artificial leaf.”

A "transparent solar concentrator" from Michigan State University joins a handful of fledgling "solar glass" technologies.

The "sponge" consists of a layer of carbon foam and a layer of graphite flakes.

California solar company SolarCity told investors Tuesday that it would enter bumpy world of solar panel manufacturing by acquiring panel maker Silevo.

China's President, Xi Jinping, on Friday announced new guidelines for reshaping how the Asian giant produces and consumes energy.

Chinese solar panel makers increased shipments to the U.S. last year despite import tariffs put in place in 2012.

Tin is showing promise as an alternative material to lead in the production of solar energy cells.

Geostellar has raised more than half of its $1 million goal in two weeks.

Talk about an innovative technology: Oregon State University chemical engineers have achieved a breakthrough that will reduce costs.

The world’s largest oil consumer, the Pentagon, wants to harvest energy in space.

A new study suggests the sun’s varying solar energy output as a possible natural cause of climate change.

The report by Greentech Solar and the Solar Energy Industries Assoc. also predicts 26% U.S. solar market growth in 2014.

Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed the first colored, transparent solar cell. They say the tinted photovoltaics could be used in the windows of homes and office buildings to harvest solar energy.

Scientists may be one step closer to achieving cheaper and cleaner hydrogen production. A group of U.S. engineers has designed an artificial means of using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using an artificial “leaf.”

According to researchers, the reflectivity of the Arctic region fell to 48 percent from 52 percent between 1979 and 2011.

Google, NRG Energy and BrightSource have created a solar tech that's testing the balance between clean energy and environmental impact.

Along with oil services, high-end manufacturing, and health care services, solar job growth will be strong in 2014.

Like Harry Truman, President Barack Obama made it clear his powerful pen would do much to address a 'Do-Nothing Congress.'