Acres of corn stand tall on both sides of a narrow country road in northwest Indiana. It’s late August and the crop is tasseling, its golden crown coated in dew droplets sparkling in the morning sun.

In some areas of the U.S., people who own homes deemed “historic” are fighting local preservationists for their right to install solar panels. The reason? Panels are too ugly, according to a recent ...

The experimental photovoltaic farm at Purdue University’s Agronomy Center for Research and Education in fields of soybean and corn. West Lafayette, Ind. — A Purdue University research team has ...