Eighty miles east of Palm Springs, California, eight million solar panels lean toward the sky, their deep blue shine a modern oasis interrupting the brown dust of the Mojave Desert. Known as Desert ...

Energy companies are moving solar projects to unconventional sites like deserts, farms, and waterways to avoid using arable land. China’s “solar great wall” in the Kubuqi Desert and canal-based ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. On a recent flight from Los Angeles to Phoenix, I glanced out the ...