It’s the Fourth of July weekend, and solar-powered cars line up at the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Teams from universities across the country have gathered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ken Silverstein covers global energy and climate issues. Masdar wants to discredit the critics of wind and solar energy—the ones ...

It sounds like an idea straight out of a five-year-old’s imagination: A car covered in solar panels runs entirely on energy from the sun. As far-fetched as it seems, this isn’t pure fantasy.

Solar panels at the 180-megawatt Madison Fields Solar project in Pike Township, Madison County. The project is one of about a dozen large-scale solar projects that have state approval, are under ...