Solar Power

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has an ambitious plan to get L.A. to go solar. Still, without a proper financial analysis, skeptics find it too lofty to be true.

Berkeley, CA was one of the first cities to use special utility districts to fund the switch to solar power in their community. Now the man behind the plan is trying to make the financing system national.

Architect Stephen A. Mouzon illustrates one way to create solar power without making your home ugly, which he says is imperative to the future of green energy.

A start-up in Livermore, CA is generating buzz with its plan to generate power from thousands of aluminum-coated balloons.

Al Gore did in fact invent the 'electranet', or at least he coined the term to explain the necessity of a new smart grid to transmit electricity from new, green sources like wind and solar. GOOD Magazine reports on the state of the electranet.

Solar energy initiatives are taking off all across the country, despite some reservations over the impacts of large-scale installations.

Toyota has hired two firms to build solar panels to augment the diesel engines on their car-carrying behemoths. The result will be a cut in CO2 emissions of 1 to 2 percent per year, or about 20 tons.

Concentrating solar, or 'solar thermal', is an old technology getting an update as solar power spreads across the Southwest.

Solar power will get a big boost from two facilities planned for California, which will together be capable of generating 800 megawatts of power.

The Bureau of Land Management has reversed course on a proposed moratorium on the construction of solar projects on public land.

The Bureau of Land Management, with a pile of solar power plans on its desk, declares a moratorium on building on public land until they can do environmental impact studies.

Planners in Saskatchewan, Canada encouraged the Schewes to build solar panels on their roof and go off the grid. Then they okayed a home next door that overshadowed the Schewes. Do homeowners have a 'right to light'?

The installation of a green roof and solar array on the rooftop of the new WGBH building in Boston is captured on video.

States are helping homeowners who want to have a more eco-friendly lifestyle by overturning homeowner association regulations that ban solar panels and wind turbines.

Officials in the United Kingdom are looking at a new technique to deal with frozen winter roads -- by collecting and saving summer heat.