If you are purchasing solar panels for your home, you may be wondering how soon the panels will pay for themselves. Knowing what solar panels are made of can actually help you answer this question.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Most of today’s solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity only from the side facing the sky. If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight ...

Researchers have embraced the darkness and the light to make double-sided solar panels with increased efficiency. The panels work by gathering sunlight on one side and reflected ambient light on the ...

These double-sided solar panels make the most sense in solar farms and commercial systems, but they can work for your home if you have the right setup. Solar panels generally rely on energy coming ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels--which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one--and single-axis tracking technology that tilts the panels so they can follow the ...

If you’re mounting solar panels, everybody knows the drill, right? Point them south, angled according to latitude. It’s easy. In a video which demonstrates that [Everyday Dave] is truly out standing ...

The concepts of both solar panels that track the sun and double-sided solar panel arrays have existed independently before now, but researchers have looked at the benefits of combining them for the ...