Researchers have successfully produced the world’s first “solar” jet fuel as part of an EU-funded project called SOLAR-JET.
Swiss firm Solar Impulse have unveiled a new aeroplane that they hope will be able to circumnavigate the globe using only solar power.
A Japanese engineering firm have announced plans to build a Lunar Ring around the moon’s equator to collect energy from the sun’s rays and “beam” it back to earth.
Oxfam is bringing power and light to the displaced Syrians in refugee camps with solar panels
There are two main types of solar energy technology: photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal. Solar PV is the rooftop solar you see on homes and businesses – it produces electricity from solar energy directly. Solar thermal technologies use the sun’s energy to generate heat, and electricity is generated from that.