Alexis Issaharoff, the chief renewable energy officer for Jubaili Bros, said that the sustainable solar house is designed to teach children and adults about sustainability and renewable energy.

How difficult is it to design a house fully powered by the sun? That’s what the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to find out. To do this, they have staged, once again, the Solar decathlon, a ...

When Cornell students David Wax, Emile Chin-Dickey, Stephanie Horowitz, Benjamin Uyeda, and Jordan Goldman set out trying to create an off-the-grid solar-powered home for the biennial Solar Decathlon ...

The creators of a new “self-sustaining house on wheels” are hoping their strange-looking project will help spark interest in solar vehicles. The vehicle, called the Stella Vita, was made by Eindhoven ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The house is cool, but most homes are these days, in the sweltering summer heat. Here, though, it should be hot. Or at least, the air-conditioning should be ...

Homes with environmentally friendly upgrades can go for 40% more than those without. Solar panels are some of the most sought after. When Gen Zers are looking to buy a home, they're looking for a ...

From the outside, the suburban home in Perth's northern suburb of Yokine doesn't look much different from others on the street, but it was built in 1955 using passive solar design principles. Scott ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Harnessing the sun to warm our homes is nothing new. As Socrates declared, during a wood-fuel shortage in ...

What’s cooler than a rotating house? One whose solar panels produce five times the energy the house uses. That’s pretty incredible, considering that even zero-energy structures are rare. German ...

Dean Solon stands out as one of the very few self-made billionaires to emerge from the U.S. solar industry, following the tremendous 2021 initial public offering on the Nasdaq of his solar-equipment ...

The US House of Representatives and Senate voted to restore tariffs on solar panels made in four Southeast Asian countries. President Joe Biden just vetoed that legislation. And good thing, because ...

Last month, students from the Solar Team at TU Eindhoven announced plans to roll from the Netherlands to southern Spain in a solar-powered campervan. After a shaky start, the Stella Vita arrived in ...