Jeff Wilson / Sun Dog, or Parhelion, caused by refraction of the sun's rays, more commonly seen in Antarctica, above glacier, Dry Valleys, Antarctica, December 2009. Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Pla...

Philippe Clement / Photovoltaic solar panels on roof of house inside incandescent lamp / bulb against black background Digital composite

Ashley Cooper / Heliostats shining light onto the PS10 solar thermal tower, the only such working solar tower currently in the world. in Sanlucar La Mayor, Andalucia, Spain. May 2011

Ashley Cooper / Solar panels n the Quaker Meeting House in Keswick, Lake District, UK. March 2012

Ashley Cooper / The Aird of Sleat lighthouse that is powered by solar panels, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. February 2012

Ashley Cooper / Set of traffic lights at road works, that are powered by a solar panel on Shap Summit, Lake district, England, UK. August 2010

Ashley Cooper / The Brough of Birsay lighthouse marks Orkney mainland's most north westerly tip. It was built in 1925 and converted to solar power in 2002. A bank of 36 solar panels charges an array of batteries that...

Ashley Cooper / Children displaced by the January 2015 flooding with solar lights in Chiteskesa refugee camp after near Mulanje. March 2015

Ashley Cooper / Solar lamps charging by solar panels, in the refugee camp of Chiteskesa refugee camp, near Mulanje. March 2015

Ashley Cooper / Solar panels on the Mono Lake visitor centre in Lee Vining, California, USA. October 2014

Ashley Cooper / Solar lantern powered by a solar panel, part of a display to promote renewable energy in Karnataka, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Dalit woman / untouchable woman in her hut, illuminated by an electric light, powered by an A4 sized solar panel, that charges a battery, and enables her to have light. Karnataka, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Dalit woman / untouchable woman in her hut, illuminated by an electric light, powered by an A4 sized solar panel, that charges a battery, and enables her to have light. Karnataka, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Old man with a low energy light bulb which he can use to power house with solar charged batteries from WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. Dece...

Ashley Cooper / Boy holding a solar lantern, charged from the solar panelsfrom WWF project to supply renewable electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Young boy doing homework in house lit by electricity from battery. Batteries are solar charged from WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. Decembe...

Ashley Cooper / Man with new solar lanterns from WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / Man with new solar lanterns from WWF project to supply electricity to a remote island in the Sunderbans, Ganges Delta, India. December 2013

Ashley Cooper / A solar power station on Lemnos, Greece. September 2012

Ashley Cooper / Solar thermal panels heating water for a holiday complex in Myrina on Lemnos, Greece. September 2012

Ashley Cooper / A wind farm near La Calahorra in Andalucia, Spain, with the world's largest solar power station in the background. May 2011

Pat Tuson / Wind and solar powered lamppost or lamp post, Mile End Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England, UK, March 2014.

Charlie Summers / Mount Sneffels landscape as seen from County Road 7 west of Ridgeway, Colorado. 7th June 2013. The reddish brown colour in some areas of the sky the result of absorption of blue light by dust whilst t...

Jeff Wilson / 'Sun Dog', or Parhelion, caused by refraction of the sun's rays, more commonly seen in Antarctica, above glacier, Dry Valleys, Antarctica, December 2009. Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen P...

Juergen Freund / Traditional home with solar panel, Chea Village, Marovo Lagoon, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, Pacific, July 2010, a politician donated a solar panel for each household providing light for those living i...

Juergen Freund / Floating cages for Coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) with solar powered light for night security to protect from poachers, Live Reef Fish Trade, Palawan, Philippines, May 2009.

Aflo / Y-11904 Andromeda galaxy, otherwise known as M31, the nearest galaxy to our own - the Milky Way

Aflo / Y-1002 Cumulonimbus clouds in blue sky with sun shining above sea

Aflo / Y-9902 Bright sun rays above cloud line, Hawaii, USA

Nick Garbutt / Beginning of total solar eclipse. 21st June 2001 Morombe, Madagascar

Jose B. Ruiz / Solar powered street light, Alicante, Spain.

Ashley Cooper / A solar powered street light next to a bus shelter near Hillswick, Shetland, Scotland, UK. July, 2022.

Milan Radisics / Planta Solar Tower 20, with focused sun rays out of focus. This is part of the Solucar solar complex owned by Abengoa energy, in Sanlucar La Mayor, Andalucia, Spain. January, 2020.

Milan Radisics / Planta Solar Tower 20, solar tower with focused sun rays out of focus. This is part of the Solucar solar complex owned by Abengoa energy, in Sanlucar La Mayor, Andalucia, Spain. January, 2020.

Ashley Cooper / Street lights on roadside powered by photovoltaic panels, Lupin (Lupinus sp) flowering in foreground. Between Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, Magallanes, Chile. January 2020.