While I'm all for renewable energy, there's one glaringly unfortunate downside to most solar panels: They're, frankly, quite ugly. Well, after tackling the electric car, Elon Musk's Tesla is looking ...

Goa, India’s smallest state, may soon replace its traditional Mangalorean, clay roof tiles with solar tiles. State power minister Nilesh Cabral told reporters yesterday the authority is looking into ...

Building-integrated photovoltaics won't make your inner architecture critic wince, but you may have to make a trade-off on efficiency. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the nuts ...

Ask around to homeowners who have looked into capturing solar energy on their roof, and they will likely tell you there are several problems with the standard solar panel. The cost to install can be ...

While scientists work to increase the efficiency of photovoltaics, designers are striving to make them sleeker, more adaptive, and easier to install. Case in point: SRS Energy’s Solé Power Tile, a ...

Tesla has launched version three of its much discussed solar glass roof tile, which it says is now ready to be rolled out onto thousands of houses a week in the US, at a price point below the cost of ...

If you are the green type that happens to have a home that uses a terracotta roof, a new green product is available for you. Traditional terracotta tiles are made from red clay like a pot you might ...

Solar PV has come a long way in a short space of time. Not so many years ago, if you wanted to turn your home into a mini solar power station, it meant bolting ugly panels to the roof. Now, however, ...

MURANG'A, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mid-morning at Gaitheri Secondary School in central Kenya's Murang'a County, and students are busy with their daily routine, as at any other school. But ...

Ever the showman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to the stage at Universal Studios in LA this evening promising to make solar sexy. To that end, he unveiled a range of textured glass tiles with integrated ...

One of the most ubiquitous architectural elements around the world is the clay roof tile. Clay tiles have a history dating back to the Neolithic Age. They were first used as roofing in China and then ...

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Instead of talking about rocket trips to Mars or self-driving cars, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk turned his attention Friday night to a more mundane topic. He came to talk about ...