A planet-wide solar boom has been beating expectations at every turn. And it’s only just the beginning.
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Goodbye refrigerants, hello magnets: Scientists develop cleaner, greener heat pump
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IEA Report: The future of geothermal energy
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UK targets 45 GW solar, 22 GW BESS in Clean Power 2030 plan
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You can now put an expandable, cost-effective solar roof rack on your EV for off-grid charging
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Photovoltaic-thermal window achieves 3.6% electrical efficiency, provides hot water at 50 C
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Largest solar and energy storage project in US approved
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Sweden's wind power industry risks becoming a victim of its own success – rock-bottom energy prices are cooling renewable investment
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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
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World's largest renewable energy plant in Australia would be bigger than entire countries
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Global solar installations to reach 469–592 GW this year
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Space-based solar power to be beamed to Iceland by 2030
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Danish engineering firm Danfoss and retailer Brugsforeningen For Als og Sundeved have created a supermarket designed to optimise energy flow to save operational costs and be climate-friendly
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Quartz producing location Spruce Pine, North Carolina just got hit by hurricane Helene. The fallout on the tech industry could be huge.
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World’s largest 2 GW geothermal project approved in US, to power two million homes
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California EV maker Aptera unveils solar car with 64 km of daily, charge-free range
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Sweden rejects applications for thirteen offshore wind farms – government believes building them would have unacceptable consequences for national defence
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Chinese solar panel boom threatens Pakistan’s debt-ridden grid
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The EU got 52% of its electricity from renewables in second quarter of 2024
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Gridlock: why it can take eleven years to connect solar farms to the UK network
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Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop
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British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of this novel renewable energy source
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Longi Green Energy sets world record for crystalline silicon solar module efficiency at 25.4%
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Iceland's vertical farm turning algae into food – pioneering entrepreneurs are growing some surprising crops and doing it sustainably
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Geothermal power in the North Bay
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Norway's national football stadium has the world's largest vertical solar roof – new solution for northern regions, yielding 20% more energy than traditional panels
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Jenny Chase 2024 “opinions about solar” thread
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Firebrick thermal energy storage could reach 170 GW in the US by 2050
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Global average solar Levelized Cost of Electricity stood at $0.044/kWh in 2023, says IRENA
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Even solar energy’s biggest fans are underestimating it
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Negative European energy prices hit record level – Rapid rollout of solar and wind generation has outpaced ability to store power
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China added more solar power in 2023 than US has ever built
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
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Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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Three Danish energy tech firms have opened the doors to the first ever green ammonia plant in the world, capable of producing 5,000 tons per year
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
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Danish wind power giant Ørsted delays major US offshore project – news follows scrapping of two other Atlantic windfarms and axing of hundreds of jobs as costs surge
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China rules solar energy, but its industry at home is in trouble
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Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
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Solar to meet half of global electricity demand growth in 2024 and 2025
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The underwater 'kites' generating electricity as they move beneath the waters of the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic
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Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on UK onshore windfarms
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Sun machines
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Spain has more green power than it can use
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French power slumps as surging renewables push out atomic plants
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Danish researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind farms far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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