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Inside Clean Energy: Think Solar Panels Don’t Work in Snow? New Research Says Otherwise

Double-sided panels help offset the effects of snow on solar arrays.

By Dan Gearino

Aerial view of a maintenance worker checking solar panels at a photovoltaic power station covered by snow at Qianjiang District on Jan. 17, 2021 in Chongqing, China. Credit: Ye Xingjian/VCG via Getty Images
Workers for Ideal Energy install solar panels on the roof of a natural foods store in Fairfield, Iowa. Credit: Ideal Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Navigating the U.S. Solar Industry’s Spring of Discontent

By Dan Gearino

Utility poles next to wheat growing in a field in Pennsylvania on June 7, 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

The Largest U.S. Grid Operator Puts 1,200 Mostly Solar Projects on Hold for Two Years

By James Bruggers

A broken photovoltaic cell lies on a table at the Aleo factory on Sept. 12, 2012 in Pritzwalk, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Here Are The People Who Break Solar Panels to Learn How to Make Them Stronger

By Dan Gearino

An installer places a solar panel system on the roof of a home on Jan. 23, 2018 in Palmetto Bay, Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

In Florida, DeSantis May End the Battle Over Rooftop Solar With a Pen Stroke

By Aman Azhar

Solar panels combined with generators provide electricity on Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Is Struggling to Meet Its Clean Energy Goals, Despite Biden’s Support

By Kristoffer Tigue

Excavators and bulldozers stack thermal coal at Lianyungang Port on Nov. 17, 2021 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Credit: Wang Chun/VCG via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up

By Dan Gearino

A conceptual rendering of solar canopies covering part of Turlock Irrigation District's 110-foot-wide main canal, near Turlock, California. Credit: Turlock Irrigation District

Inside Clean Energy: In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Papalote, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

Close-up of a photovoltaic solar energy panel with reflection of the sun. Credit: Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Recycling Solar Panels Is a Big Challenge, but Here’s Some Recent Progress

By Dan Gearino

An installer for the solar company, Sunrun, uses a level while installing solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Is the California Coalition Fighting Subsidies For Rooftop Solar a Fake Grassroots Group?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, Dan Gearino

A solar park near Berlin. Credit: Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: As Efficiency Rises, Solar Power Needs Fewer Acres to Pack the Same Punch

By Dan Gearino

A wind and solar farm on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Wind and Solar Costs Have Risen. How Long Should We Expect This Trend to Last?

By Dan Gearino

Outside Orlando, Florida, the 6 megawatt Stanton Solar Farm. Archer, where the Archer Solar Project was proposed, is 110 miles northwest of Orlando. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

An African American Community in Florida Blocked Two Proposed Solar Farms. Then the Florida Legislature Stepped In.

By Aman Azhar

People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar panels on their rooftops outside the California State Capitol Museum in Sacramento, California, on Dec. 8, 2021. Credit: Aníbal Martel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Unpacking California’s Controversial New Rooftop Solar Proposal

By Dan Gearino

An employee with Ipsun Solar installs solar panels on the roof of the Peace Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Virginia on May 17, 2021. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Now on Hold, Georgia’s Progressive Program for Rooftop Solar Comes With a Catch

By James Bruggers

Inside Clean Energy: Vote Solar’s Leader Is Stepping Down. Here’s What He and His Group Built

By Dan Gearino

Employees from a Radian Generation change out a faulty solar inverter along a row of solar panels Dec. 4, 2017 in Oxford, Massachusetts. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Rural Electric Co-ops in Alabama Remain Way Behind the Solar Curve

By James Bruggers

Pete Southerton (left) and Tom Bradshaw, of solar energy contractor Certasun, install solar panels on a Northwest Side home, Monday afternoon, May 17, 2021. Credit: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times

Illinois Solar Companies Say They Are ‘Held Hostage’ by Statehouse Gridlock

By Dan Gearino, Brett Chase

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