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If California prides itself on being a national leader in green energy, one college campus there takes its pioneering status to another level.

According the MSNBC, a team led by former NASA executive and physicist John Mankins captured solar energy from a mountaintop in Maui and beamed it 92 miles to the main island of Hawaii. The long-range energy transmission experiment opens the possibility of sending solar energy from space to earth.

A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is studying ways to use the heat-soaking property of parking lots and other paved surfaces for an alternative energy source.

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) announced it will install solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on the roofs of several schools. This initiative will make MCPS the first school system in Maryland and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to launch a large-scale solar PV program.

An ultra-light, highly efficient solar cell and use of ink-jet printing to manufacture thin-film photovoltaics—both developed at the U.S.

According to USA Today, new technology developed by Silicon Valley startup SUNRGI could fast-track solar power by delivering it to the market in a year’s time at a price comparable to coal-fired electricity.

A debate within political circles in the historic town of Marburg, Germany, and its regional government in Giessen pits the environmentally conscious against the very environmentally conscious and highlights the question of where to draw the line when it comes to mandating energy efficiency.

A vast majority of Americans, across all political parties, overwhelmingly support development and funding of solar energy.

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced plans to install rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems at its medical facilities in Loma Linda, California, and Dallas.