Linda Hezel gets up early to clip herbs, vegetables and produce from the plants on her farm north of Kansas City. “I'm trying peppers which you normally think would be only in full sun,” Hezel said.

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Along remote Pompeo Road deep in the woods of rural Thompson, there is a business that a few years ago had the idea of attracting guests drawn to scenic, unspoiled views. But C-Tec Solar LLC’s plan to ...

Massive utility-scale solar projects under development in the deserts of California and the Southwest have been in the spotlight in recent months as they win slow approval from state and federal ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is moving to pair its massive Colossus data center in Memphis with a relatively modest solar project, an 88-acre field of panels that would sit beside ...

The first time Chris Dahl heard rumblings of a plan to build a large solar array among the corn fields and tobacco sheds of East Windsor, she said the project sounded like a good enough idea. A ...

If you stop to think about it, it’s a marvel that we can harness energy from the sun. But we do, thanks to solar panels equipped with photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to electricity. That’s no ...