Solar power

Solar-powered street lights are displayed for sale in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)

Africa’s off-grid solar sector courts mainstream investors with landmark financing deals

Landmark fundraising deals by two of Africa’s largest off-grid solar companies are raising hopes that private capital markets could become a major source of funding to help bring electricity to millions of homes lacking access to reliable power.

Cattle graze under solar panels Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at a farm in Christiana, Tenn. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Solar power hits new milestones in the US even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

Homeowners association president Larry Veray poses for a photo at his Waiau Gardens Kai B townhomes in Pearl City, O'ahu, Hawaii, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (Craig Fujii/Honolulu Civil Beat via AP)

Sudden Slashes To Solar Incentives Make It Harder To Go Green

A solar installer secures a solar panel onto the roof of a home in Manila, Philippines, on April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)

Price shocks from the Iran war power solar sales in energy-hungry Asia

An aerial view of a solar power plant in Ouarzazate, central Morocco on Feb.4, 2016. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Africa’s solar boom faces higher costs as China cuts export subsidies

Electric tricycles carry Cubans amid fuel shortage

Although electric tricycles are common in many countries, in Cuba they are now the primary mode of transportation due to a severe fuel shortage caused by a U.S blockade.

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In Tennessee, solar developers explore benefits of cattle and energy production

Solar growth in China and India powers clean energy surge by 2025

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Mark Munyua, CP solar's technician, examines solar panels on the roof of a company in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says

Trump administration scraps multimillion-dollar solar projects in Puerto Rico as grid crumbles

In some Connecticut towns, clouds form over new solar developments

Wind turbines operate as the sun rises at the Klettwitz Nord solar energy park near Klettwitz, Germany, Oct. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

Solar panels are visible outside of Lincoln Financial Field on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

From composting to solar panels, NFL stadiums are working to be more sustainable

Workers walk between solar panels at a newly opened industrial-scale solar power plant in Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iraq’s first industrial-scale solar plant opens in Karbala desert to tackle electricity crisis

Wind turbines operate in Lagoa, Brazil, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Wind and solar power fuel over one-third of Brazil’s electricity for first time

A shepherd watches livestock near Khi Solar One, a solar thermal plant that converts the sun's light energy into electricity, outside Upington, South Africa, in the Northern Cape province, Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Africa’s solar energy potential makes for a bright future for renewable power

Amazon Web Services data center is visible on Aug. 22, 2024, in Boardman, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Trump blames renewable energy for rising electricity prices. Experts point elsewhere

A solar farm operates on May 23, 2025, in Bulengo, a neighborhood near Goma, Congo. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Solar minigrid brings light and hope to a Goma neighborhood, offering blueprint for rest of Congo

Workers install panels at a solar project Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in Galena, Alaska. (AP Photo/John Locher)

In rural Alaska, a village turns to solar and biomass energies to cut diesel and save money

An array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site is shown near Primm, Nev., Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert

Wind turbines dot the coastline along a giant solar farm near Weifang in eastern China's Shandong province on March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China built out record amount of wind and solar power in 2024

Sheep graze on a solar farm owned by SB Energy on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Buckholts, Texas. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Why some of the US’s largest solar farms are replacing lawn mowers with sheep

A street is dark during a blackout in San Juan, Puerto Rico, after sunset on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

US announces $1.2 billion to help finance renewable energy projects in Puerto Rico

Judge refuses to dismiss Alabama lawsuit over solar panel fees

FILE - Guohua Power Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Dingzhou, Baoding, in the northern China's Hebei province, Nov. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China is backing off coal power plant approvals after a 2022-23 surge that alarmed climate experts

Trash and debris little an empty lot on Detroit's eastside, Monday, June 24, 2024. The eastside neighborhood is one of a few that are expected to receive solar arrays as part of Detroit's efforts to remove blight and find uses for underpopulated areas in the city. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)

Detroit plans to harness solar power on vacant lots throughout the city

Residents of rural Hinds County, Miss., express their disappointment with the county's Board of Supervisors approving what could become the state's largest solar energy project, over their objections, Monday, June 17, 2024, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Supervisors vote to allow solar panel farm in central Mississippi over residents’ objections

Company plans $344 million Georgia factory to make recycled glass for solar panels

A solar farm is seen next to Donggou village near Shijiazhuang city in the northern China's Hebei province, Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. To meet the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), nine major Asian economies must increase the share of electricity they get from renewable energy from the current 6% to at least 50% by 2030, according to a report by a German thinktank released Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Asian economies must ramp up wind and solar power to keep global warming under 1.5C, report says

FILE - A man displays solar panels for sale outside a shop in Abuja, Nigeria, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga, File)

India-led alliance set to fund solar projects in Africa in a boost to the energy transition

FILE - Heavy machinery is used to cut trees to widen an existing Central Maine Power power line corridor to make way for new utility poles, April 26, 2021, near Bingham, Maine. Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines aren't added or refurbished in the next few years. The International Energy Agency said in a report Tuesday that the capacity to connect to and transmit electricity isn't keeping pace with the rapid growth of clean energy technology like solar and wind power, electric cars and heat pumps. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Electrical grids aren’t keeping up with the green energy push. That could risk climate goals

FILE - An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P. The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday, Sept. 22, announced a $325 million investment in long-duration battery storage projects. (AP Photo/Sam Hodde, File)

Energy Department announces $325M for batteries that can store clean electricity longer

Japan prosecutors arrest ex-vice foreign minister in bribery case linked to wind power company

A worker inspects solar panels at Premier Energies Solar on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Solar developers in India fear that a tax meant to encourage Indian manufacture of solar components will slow down the installation of solar power this year. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Taxes slow India’s solar power rollout but boost manufacture

Josh Spodek shows the empty refrigerator in his Greenwich Village apartment he ditched to support his effort to live sustainably, Tuesday Jan. 24, 2023, in New York. Beyond the energy savings, Spodek says without a refrigerator he has learned to cook better and develop fermentation techniques using a wider variety of seasonal produce. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

A fridge too far? Living sustainably in NYC by unplugging

Farmer Pravinbhai Parmar cleans a solar panel installed at a farm in Dhundi village of Kheda district in western Indian Gujarat state, India, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. Parmar has been using solar power for irrigation and sells the excess electricity to the state's grid to earn additional income. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Clean energy gains a foothold in India, but coal still rules

IEA: Renewables could top coal as electricity source by 2025

Arizona company adds $1B solar power parts plant in Alabama

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