The future of solar module design will be heavier, not lighter. With hail and extreme weather events increasing, module manufacturers are expected to shift toward thicker glass to improve impact ...

Maximo, a robotics startup incubated by energy company AES, has successfully deployed its solar panel installation robots at a site in California.

According to Maximo, its Version 3.0 robots now enable crews to install solar panels at rates previously impossible by human teams alone. Workers using the robots ...

Energy companies say a labor shortage is one big obstacle to installing more solar power. They’re turning to machines to speed things up. By Brad Plumer The companies racing to build large solar farms ...

When a crew of eight workers started installing solar panels at a site in Australia last year, they covered an area larger than a soccer field with 2,250 solar panels in a single day. That’s 5 to 10 ...

CALLAHAN COUNTY - The idea for a "solar robot" started several years ago, as a sketch on a cocktail napkin in a hotel lobby. Fast forward to mid-April, and Rosendin Electric senior vice president ...

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as ...

“We see a decoupling between what modules are expected to survive based on previous industry knowledge, and what they’re actually able to survive in testing,” says Colin Sillerud. Image: CFV Labs.

In this tutorial, we’ll build on the foundation laid in the “Arduino-Based Solar Power System Using Python & Machine Learning, Part 1” project by exploring how to intelligently select and use machine ...