Near Hickman, California, just outside Modesto, a 110-foot-wide grid of solar panels now tops a section of canal, arching over the gently flowing water. Solar projects have long been a crucial piece ...

Innovations in solar power are driving a new energy experiment in California. The experiment officially launched in 2025 under the title Project Nexus, and it involves a 115-foot-wide canal covered in ...

Xcel Energy has curtailed plans to build a large-scale solar farm spread across thousands of acres in western Wisconsin, cancelling the second phase of the plan, while moving ahead with the first ...

Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from Washington An enormous solar power ...