Employees of the Swiss electricity producer and supplier CKW, part of Axpo, install solar panels in a disused satellite dish at the Leuk Teleport and Data Center in Leuk, Switzerland, on October 18, 2023. #

Reflected sunlight is directed at the tower of the Abengoa solar plant at Solucar solar park in Sanlúcar la Mayor, near the Andalusian capital of Seville, in southern Spain, on November 13, 2015. #

An aerial view of the tower of the Cerro Dominador concentrated solar and photovoltaic power plant in the Atacama Desert on August 28, 2022, in María Elena, Chile. The plant uses an array of 10,600 mirrors (heliostats) that track the sun, reflecting solar radiation to a receiver on the upper part of a 250-meter tower. #

A newly built floating solar-power plant that can generate 192 megawatts of peak electricity, on the surface of the Cirata Reservoir in West Java, Indonesia, on November 9, 2023 #

A shepherd lies near a small solar panel as he plays with his phone on grassland in the Karacadağ region of the Siverek district in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, on April 22, 2017. #

A farmer drives a combine harvester to collect soybeans under hanging solar panels on an agrivoltaic site in Amance, France, on October 12, 2022. This experimental project is equipped with an "agricultural canopy," a large shade house equipped with rotating solar panels fixed on cables five meters above the fields. #

An aerial view of the Ashalim concentrated-solar-power station, lit by sunlight reflected by 50,600 computer-controlled heliostats, in Beersheba, Negev Desert, Israel, on August 5, 2023. #

A tower is reflected in heliostats at the Khi Solar One plant, operated by Coxabengoa, in Upington, South Africa, on November 21, 2023. About 4,000 heliostats (mirrors) pivot according to the sun's position to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto the tower, which heats water to evaporation, which is then directed to turbines to generate power. #

Electrical workers use a boat to check on solar panels at a photovoltaic power station built in a fishpond in Hai'an, in China's eastern Jiangsu province, on July 19, 2021. #

Workers give finishing touches to installed solar panels covering the Narmada Canal at Chandrasan village, outside Ahmedabad, India, on April 22, 2012. The project was devised to bring water to hundreds of thousands of villages in the dry, arid regions of western India’s Gujarat state. #

An array of solar panels floats on a water-storage pond in Sayreville, New Jersey, on April 10, 2023. Floating solar-panel farms are beginning to boom in the United States after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation. #

This aerial photo taken on February 23, 2022, shows floating solar panels for the Sirindhorn Dam hydro-solar farm run by the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand in Ubon Ratchathani. #

A grid of solar panels, arranged to form the outline of a horse, in the Kubuqi Desert in Ordos, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China, on July 17, 2022. The facility consists of 196,320 solar panels, occupying about 345 acres (1.398 million square meters). #

This aerial photo taken on August 4, 2022, shows solar panels built over a sewage-treatment plant. The plant, in Zhengzhou, in China's central Henan province, uses photovoltaic power to partly replace coal power. #

Photovoltaic panels stretch to the horizon at the Al Dhafra Solar Photovoltaic project in the United Arab Emirates, south of the capital Abu Dhabi, on November 13, 2023. On November 16, the UAE inaugurated one of the world's biggest solar plants, with nearly 4 million solar panels covering 20 square kilometers of desert. #

This aerial photo taken on July 4, 2023, shows solar panels on roofs at the Solar Settlement Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. As the first solar settlement in the Ruhr area, it consists of 71 houses built by two different developers as part of the funding program 50 Solar Settlements in NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia). #