To make it all work as a solar shed, I’d have to mount the various components around the container. I started with the solar panels, which would need a frame. I used pressure-treated 2x4s to ...

Shipping containers have long been a staple of Treehugger, as have tiny homes. Throw in solar power, off-grid living, and transformer furniture, and you are pushing every Treehugger button.

These solar-powered shipping container homes look straight out of a Marvel movie. They're built for the homeless Story by Kamrin Baker • 2w ...

A prototype for a solar and wind power station that fits within a shipping container has placed a group of students from Princeton University among the winners of a national EPA-sponsored ...

To operate its fleet of 9 UBCO 2X2 electric motorbikes on the Island, Motubikes has set up a solar-powered base station inside of a repurposed shipping container. With 16 solar panels on the roof ...

SPACE (Solar Powered Adaptive Container For Everyone) promises to change that. SPACE units are equipped with solar panels, so each small structure provides for itself.

If a disaster is imminent—such as a hurricane that might cause debris to fly into the solar panels—the whole system can be quickly disassembled and packed back inside the shipping container.

It's designed to not necessitate any power, but the team appended solar panels to the top of the box to provide for the minimal power the sterilization process might need, as well as a way to ...

Inside a shipping container in the U.K. city of Sheffield, new technology uses water and renewable electricity to pull CO2 out of the air.