There’s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar system, but most of it assumes a suburban house with city water and a long list of optional loads. Rural homes play by different rules, and ...

Researchers have developed a solar cell system that uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy. In addition to electricity, it ...

Italian researchers have reviewed different system configurations for photovoltaic-thermal solar-assisted heat pumps in buildings. They say that using the PV-thermal collector as the heat pump’s ...

A solar water well setup is explained using a real example. The well is properly designed with the pump accessible (not under a well house roof). Water is pumped into a 2,500-gallon storage tank, then ...