Kicking your utility to the curb sounds like a great deal, but it's more difficult than it sounds. Here's what it takes to go off the grid with solar panels. CNET contributor Eric Mack knows all too ...

If you connect your panels to the grid, you won't be responsible for producing all your own energy. That's not the case if you go off the grid. Going solar doesn't mean going off the grid -- unless ...

Look closely at a solar panel, and you'll see a series of thin metallic lines running across the surface. They're not there to look nice -- they have a specific purpose. Those lines are called the ...

Solar panels save their owners and their neighbors energy costs. A new holistic analysis looks at all the ways panels save utilities money. In fact, researchers say, utilities should be helping panel ...

Applying their algorithm, they showed that various networks of grid-edge devices were able to dissolve the various attacks. The results demonstrate that grid-edge devices such as rooftop solar panels, ...