To build a modern-day electrical grid with the flexibility and resilience to handle ebbing and flowing energy sources like ...

As NASA's Parker Solar Probe (trajectory shown in green) crossed the heliospheric current sheet, it encountered merging magnetic islands (blues) and protons accelerated toward the Sun ...

For every 10 percentage points of solar and wind, the cost increases by more than 4¢. The results are nearly similar for 2019, before any impacts of COVID and the Ukraine war. Look at Germany ...

Coronal hole and spacecraft latitude effects on solar wind velocity at simulated L1/L5. Left: STEREO-B 195 Å images with segmented coronal holes and meridional slices (15°) for two events in May ...

In a first for the US, wind and solar produced more electricity than coal last year, according to a new report from energy think tank Ember. Coal fell to a historic low, generating 15 percent of ...

In 2024, wind and solar accounted for 17% of total electricity generation, passing coal, which dropped to 15%, according to energy think tank Ember. Gas generation also grew by 3.3% in 2024.

Of this total, 40% (303,167 GWh) came from solar and 60% (453,454 GWh) came from wind. In 2024 solar power grew 27% and wind power grew 8% compared to 2023 levels.

The sun reflects off a solar panel on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. Ashley Landis/AP Solar power has been setting annual installation records for years.

The complementarity between wind and solar farms was enhanced by the high-resolution modeling due to improved representation of renewable resource variability.

Energy-packed plasma waves pump enough energy into streams of solar wind to propel them to their unexpectedly high speeds, observations by two sun-studying spacecraft suggest.

For years, researchers have wondered what energy source allows the solar wind − a projection of charged particles from the Sun − to rush by at hundreds of miles a second.