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MPs criticise Green Hill Solar Farm approval in Northamptonshire
Two Conservative MPs have criticised the approval of plans for one of the biggest solar farms in the country. Stuart Andrew, the MP for Daventry and Sarah Bool, the MP for South Northamptonshire, claimed Green Hill Solar Farm would take up farmland…
First Solar sues JA Solar, Corning unit over TOPCon patent
First Solar has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Chinese manufacturer JA Solar and American Panel Solutions, a subsidiary of Corning, escalating its years-long legal campaign to defend a core solar cell manufacturing patent. The…
TV presenter visits community-owned solar project in Ayrshire town
TV presenter and architectural designer, Charlie Luxton, visited Ayr this week to see first hand a community-owned solar project in action. The SP Energy Networks and TV host joined forces for a roadshow to educate communities throughout the…
Austria: 43,300 applications for solar subsidies submitted in just ten minutes
Austria opened its third and final funding round of the year for photovoltaic systems and battery storage on Thursday afternoon. Demand was even higher than in the previous round, according to an announcement issued Friday by the Federal Ministry…
Quanta Unit Blattner Starts Work on $1.5B Solar Project in Missouri
The project, being developed by San Francisco-based Clearway, is the company's first solar facility in Missouri. It is backed by a 20-year power purchase agreement and is part of a 1.2-GW portfolio of projects the developer announced earlier this…
More than 70% of announced U.S. solar manufacturing expansion plans yet to be financed
In the final part of the special Austin-debrief series of articles this week in pv magazine, I review the outlook for U.S. solar manufacturing capital expenditure (capex) by quarter to the end of 2027. For reference, Part 1 of the series addressed…
He'll Inherit His Mother's Phoenix House and 17 Years of Someone Else's Solar Lease. The Buyer's Lender Will Want It Gone, and the Payoff Will Be $31,000
His mother's Phoenix house came to him with a roof full of solar panels she never owned. A solar company owns them, and its lease has 17 years left to run. When he lists the house, the buyer's lender will almost certainly want that contract cleared…
One table of US grid interconnection queues: solar, storage, wind and data center requests
Every new solar farm, battery, wind project, gas plant and large load (data centers, chip fabs, hydrogen) has to file an interconnection request with its grid operator before it can connect. The queues are public. For anyone selling into energy…
In-State Solar Mandates are Bananas
Are you thinking what I'm thinking, B1? I think I am, B2! It's shutoff time! Imagine the brilliant lawmakers in your state passed a law requiring that 4 percent of the groceries in your cart on every trip to the store had to be bananas. Now imagine…
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
Battery storage is now cheaper than a type of natural gas power plant favored by many data center developers, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie. On every continent and in each of the 43 markets that Wood Mackenzie surveyed, four-hour…
Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun
There's lots of things you can do with balloons. Children's birthday parties come to mind, as do retirement parties. But you can also observe the Sun in unprecedented detail with one - or at least with a suite of equipment attached to a gondola…
Can Beijing end the race to the bottom?
China's solar industry has spent two decades proving how far costs can fall. It is now confronting a harder question: how low is too low? The need for an answer has become urgent. In the first half of 2026, some of China's largest solar…
Bluetti Na(Sodium) 900Wh power station at exclusive $665 low in Encore Sale, Anker solar multi-cam kits $310 off, Navee EVs, more
We're closing out this week's Green Deals led by the Bluetti Encore Sale that is completely switching up its power station deals, including bringing back the winter-ready 900Wh Pioneer Na(Sodium) Portable Power Station at an exclusive $665 low.
We Must Embrace, Not Pause, AI and Data Centers
China, Iran, North Korea and ISIS won't pause their AI race. The US would be crazy to do so. A recent Friends of the Earth email wailed that Urgent Action is needed to prevent massive data centers from destroying communities, the environment and…
As companies pour billions into Earth-based AI infrastructure, Google taking the data center race off-planet
The moonshot idea of putting AI data centers into outer space just moved one step closer to reality, despite doubts about its feasibility. Last week, Google's Project Suncatcher launched a refrigerator-sized satellite carrying four AI chips into…
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