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With the early repayment yesterday of Tesla Motors Inc. 's loan from the U.S. Energy Department, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is free to run the electric-car maker for the benefit of himself and other shareholders.

Image courtesy of Sunsense Solar This illustration depicts two sites for proposed solar panels near Cabondale's Roaring Fork water treatment plant to help the town lower some of its utility costs.

A group of Korean businessmen is eyeing investment on power generation to help address the electricity needs of this city.

The European Union is poised to penalise imports of Chinese solar products, a move that would increase Europe's cost for most photovoltaic panels by an estimated 45 per cent overnight [LONDON] The European Union is poised to penalise imports of Chinese solar products, a move that would increase Europe's cost for most photovoltaic panels by an ... (more)

Reporters gather before dawn as the Solar Impulse plane prepares to takeoff from Moffett Field NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View on May 3. The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on solar power alone was set to soar early Wednesday on the second leg of its journey across the United States.

Imagine if you had a detachable solar energy window plug in the middle of your living room window that you could use to charge up any electrical apparatus you needed.

Whatever oil and gas true believers want to think, the world is doing this solar power thing.

Georgia's solar industry wants the state to expand its use of the renewable energy source.

It seems that every day we are trying to find new clean ways to create energy. Luckily, there is a project in the middle of the Silver State that is purely green.

Renewable energy firm Green Energy UK Direct has revealed plans to build a solar energy park on land at Downs Farm at Dundry Downs in the village.

Years ago, in the middle of the boom in nuclear power plants, we used to say, only half in jest, the private utilities would never accept solar energy because you can't put a meter on the sun.

Water is a fairly common material in the Universe thanks to how much hydrogen and oxygen want to bond to form the molecule.

The company will install solar panels on the roof of the building. The panels will generate a total 34 kilowatts of electricity.

The board of directors of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation has approved more than $78,000 in funding from the state Renewable Energy Fund for two solar energy projects.

Name: Kiri Brenner Age: 23 Job title: Environmental Education Intern Hometown: Silver Spring Education Data: attended Northwood High School, Silver Spring.

Riverside County supervisors signed off today on an agreement that will end further litigation stemming from a legal challenge to a county policy mandating that solar power developers pay fees of $450 per acre for projects on county land.

In a remote stretch of the Omani desert, row after row of long, curved mirrors collect the sun's energy.

Both closed cell and open cell foam was used in the home to make it as energy efficient as possible.

ReneSola and Positive Energy Solar are offering three 2.5 kilowatt solar grants for non-profit organizations in Las Cruces, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

MS Turanor PlanetSolar , the world's largest solar boat, set a new record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a vessel powered entirely by solar energy, smashing its own 2010 record by four days.