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SINGAPORE—A plan by China to restrict exports of key solar manufacturing technology could delay attempts to build up a domestic solar supply chain in the U.S., industry experts say. China’s…

South Korea’s Hanwha Group plans to spend $2.5 billion to build an entire solar-manufacturing supply chain in Georgia, the biggest solar investment spurred so far by…

At Patagonia Inc.’s California headquarters, some windows double as power generators.The outdoor-clothing retailer is one of the first companies to test solar-panel windows, a new and…

BERLIN—Rocketing electricity prices are increasing the cost of driving electric vehicles in Europe, in some cases making them more expensive to run than gas-powered models—a change that…

Enel said it is planning a factory that can initially produce 3 gigawatts—and ultimately as much as 6 gigawatts—of solar panels. That is a scale that would make Enel’s factory one of the…

Solar panels can make homes a lot greener. But they can also make them look a lot less attractive.In one survey conducted by the environmental-news publisher EcoWatch, a big reason…

Companies are pouring a lot of money into the idea that hydrogen can help decarbonize the fossil-fuel-based economy.But first, they have to figure out a way to produce that hydrogen more…

Farmers wanting to install solar panels on their land, for their own use or to sell the energy, have had a tough choice: use the land for crops or for panels. Now, they are increasingly able…

Sixty-five miles off the coastal Norwegian city of Bergen, a drilling rig is punching through layers of mud and rock below the North Sea. The energy firms behind the rig aren’t prospecting…

Corporations in energy, finance and telecommunications got together last week to square off on their cyber-defense skills, a match that participants claimed was the first tri-industry…