the unconsumed excess energy that your solar panels produce during the day can be stored and used to power your house at night. The same principle applies to the scheme known as net metering ...

The cell keeps generating electricity, even on cloudy days, until the sun goes down at night. To see solar power in action, check out This Solar House.

These surfaces then release the heat at night to keep the building warm. Similarly, absorbent plates on a roof can heat liquid in tubes that supply a house with hot water. Solar energy is lauded ...

We also installed roof jacks (to hold up the solar array) and then a new composite shingle roof. Finally, in July, we put in a whole-house cooling fan and whole-house heat-recirculating system (as ...

I think it saved that house,” said neighbor Kim Koon. Koon’s quick response to the flames that came from her neighbor’s solar panels ... in the middle of the night, no one would have noticed.

A six-kilowatt off-grid solar system has been installed at the Rebecca Akufo-Addo Sunshine Hostel for Children with Cancer at ...

"I don't like my tax dollars paying subsidies to some big company that's going to make money off of that," one opponent said.

Researchers from Stanford University have designed a solar cell based on radiative cooling that purportedly produces electricity at night. Radiative cooling occurs when the surface of an object ...