Most homes already have a smart meter that digitally communicates with the electric grid. If you're looking to get rooftop solar panels, a smart meter is an essential piece of equipment. Here's why.

Every solar panel company makes bold claims about its panel efficiency, maximum wattage availability, temperature coefficient and other specs in optimal conditions. Anyone who does product testing ...

Philadelphia-based ConnectDER, which sells plug-and-play meter collar adapters for EV chargers, solar, and battery storage, just closed a $27 million Series C funding round. ConnectDER makes meter ...

A new test curve for determining solar panels' breaking point from hail uses a broader spectrum of impact energies and testing products.

A dial on Tom Bassett-Dilley’s iPhone-like “smart meter” showed the architect’s modest Oak Park home was using 1 cent per hour in electricity. “Watch this,” he said. He switched on the toaster. The ...

The three massive solar panels that will provide power for NASA's Juno spacecraft during its mission to Jupiter have seen their last photons of light until they are deployed in space after launch. The ...