American households facing rising electricity costs are turning to a low-tech workaround: small, plug-in solar panel systems ...

Balcony solar can be installed almost anywhere, is cheap, easy to set up and reduces bills. It’s increasingly appealing to Americans struggling with soaring energy costs, but it exists in a legal gray ...

Balcony solar systems are quietly transforming clean energy access. Discover how plug-in solar works, its legal challenges, ...

While we can't control how much electricity costs, many Americans are showing that it is possible to at least choose where we get some of it from.

Americans are embracing easy, plug‑and‑play solar units that slash energy costs — even as Washington tries to slow the clean‑energy shift.

In more than half of U.S. states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of DIY solar systems.

As electricity prices soar and rooftop solar subsidies vanish, some U.S. renters and homeowners are surreptitiously installing solar panels on balconies and in backyards without their utility’s ...

Plug-in solar systems offer renters an affordable way to reduce utility bills. Legislation aims to make them safer and more ...

Joshua M. Pearce has received funding for research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs, the U.S. Department of Energy ...