In this week’s episode, Editor Gary Castor chats with solar technician Seth Cain, who gives a breakdown on how solar power works.

As a writer for Forbes Home since 2021, Emily specializes in writing about home warranties, solar installations, car transportation and moving companies. With a background in journalism and experience ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...

100-watt solar panels are affordable, easy to set up and able to produce electricity anywhere the sun shines. Does this mean they're always the best choice when designing your solar energy project?

REC and Maxeon offer two of the best solar panels that CNET experts have evaluated. Both brands offer highly efficient solar panels backed with strong production guarantees over 25 years. Maxeon ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

If you want to be fully dependent on solar, you need enough solar panels to compensate for your energy consumption. However, this calculation gets tricky. While the average home needs roughly 19 solar ...

Solar panels allow for a reusable supply of electrical energy even when you’re deep in the backcountry. While we know some campers want to get away from it all and rough it, it’s hard to completely ...

Summer is here, and if you have been planning to spend more time outdoors, a portable solar panel can be a great investment. These can keep your power stations charged wherever the sun shines, but not ...