If you happened to be looking at the sky in Europe on a cold night on February 5, 1993, there is a chance you could have seen a dim flash of light. That flash came from a Russian space mirror ...

Solar panels are the beacon of renewable energy, yet solar energy systems are not getting as much light as they could be. Joshua Pearce from Michigan Technological University and a team from Queen’s ...

Researchers in Taiwan have developed an adjustable aluminum reflector system that boosts the performance of vertically mounted bifacial solar modules. The prototype delivered a 71.32% total power gain ...

Tests conducted by Canadian researchers at the NREL’s testing field in Colorado have shown that ground reflectors based on high-density polyethylene can significantly increase bifacial PV plant ...

Three decades after the first and only time that a mirror was launched to demonstrate solar energy could be reflected from space to Earth. My colleagues and I believe it’s time to revisit this ...