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<p>Sheep are more nimble and smaller than lawnmowers</p>

Why sheep have become the heroes of the booming US solar industry

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Plea to make key solar panel change to lower energy bills

<p>Is it possible to run your EV and your home using only solar energy? Pictured: The Jaguar I-Pace charging</p>

Electric Vehicles

The future of home electric car charging

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Why painting London’s roofs could save lives

<p>Perovskite offers the potential to supercharge energy production from solar panels</p>

‘Miracle material’ solar panels close to commercialisation

<p>Dr Doojin Vak holds up a roll of flexible printed solar cells that use the ‘miracle material’ perovskite</p>

Flexible solar panels achieve record-breaking efficiency

<p>Wind-powered heat pumps could slash bills, a report says </p>

Community wind farms could be the key to slashing energy bills

<p>Solar power (also fast-developing) should play a part in saving the planet, but that does not necessitate the complete destruction of productive and cherished rural areas</p>

Call me a nimby if you like – I don’t want super-sized solar farms

<p>I congratulate Starmer this time for dropping Azhar Ali as the official Labour candidate in the Rochdale by-election</p>

At least with Rochdale, Keir Starmer has proved he is a man of action

<p>An illustration of how solar energy could be beamed to Earth via satellites</p>

First ever space-to-Earth solar power mission succeeds

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Breakthrough could lead to stretchy solar panels, creators say

<p>A transparent spectral converter can boost solar cell efficiency by capturing UV light and converting it into visible light in order to generate electricity</p>

Solar panel breakthrough harnesses wasted light to boost efficiency

<p>Tandem solar cells that use perovskite have a far higher efficiency potential than standard silicon cells</p>

AI breakthrough could help make solar panels out of ‘miracle material’

<p>Perovskite is the most abundant mineral on the planet, making up 38 per cent of the mass of the Earth</p>

Hundreds of years after discovery, one material could change the world

<p>Solar panels that generate electricity from rain drops could allow them to produce power in any weather</p>

Solar panel tech breakthrough generates electricity from rain

<p>Double-sided solar panels use the ‘miracle material’ perovskite, which has been hailed for its potential to transform various industries</p>

Double-sided solar panel generates vastly more electricity

<p>Solar panels installed on satellites in low-Earth orbit suffer from space radiation that impacts their efficiency</p>

Scientists invent self-healing solar panels with ‘miracle material’

<p>A lab-scale perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell</p>

‘Miracle material’ breaks solar cell efficiency threshold

<p>Batteries are heavy, so power stations with higher capacities can weigh as much as 80kg</p>

Travel & outdoors

Best portable power stations: Off-grid energy at home and away

<p>Solar Together neatly addresses the cost issue by pooling people together and getting companies that install the panels to bid on big, bulk orders</p>

How my green energy dream turned into a solar panel nightmare

<p>A wind turbine in Switzerland this month</p>

Switching to renewables could pay for itself in six years, study says

<p>Merino sheep in Australia saw improvements in their fleeces when grazing among solar panel arrays</p>

Solar panel sheep farm trial ‘a complete win-win’

<p>When I heard the chancellor was imposing another nuclear surcharge on our energy bills, I decided to try to eliminate my night-time electricity imports</p>

My net zero home generates triple the electricity I use – here’s how

<p>File photo: An illustration of Insight</p>

Nasa’s Marsquake-hunting InSight lander set to meet a dusty end

<p>Perovskite has been hailed as a ‘miracle material’ for its potential to radically transform everything from solar energy harvesting to internet speeds</p>

World record achieved for solar power ‘miracle material’

<p>New solar panels can generate electricity at night if the skies are clear</p>

Scientists invent solar panels that work at night