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Is solar the answer to your spiking energy bills? It depends on 3 factors
anatoliy_gleb/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Solar savings depend on local rates and export credits. Battery storage can save and earn money, not just provide backup. The biggest savers cut energy costs by nearly 80%. Your electricity…
BepiColombo Makes Up-Close Measurement of Mercury's Solar Bombardment
During the eight years since it was launched, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made six close flybys of Mercury. During each pass, the twin orbiters collected vital information on one of the least explored planets in the Solar System, helping…
How 'ultra-long cooling times' are promising significant upgrades in solar panel efficiency
New and improved solar panel materials have been analyzed Two key physics effects combine to create the improvements It could help panels break through the 33% energy conversion rate There's a long-standing physics theory that suggests solar panels…
Letter to the Editor | Solar subsidies a good idea
Fossil fuels also got tax subsidies Two former employees of Wirepoints wrote an Aug. 29-30 guest commentary titled “Illinois solar farms aren't viable without tax subsidies.” Their objections are opinions for the short term, but I…
New details about a major solar storm rewrite space weather history
A train getting ready to leave a station in southwest England once sat idling. Its telegraph signal had gone haywire, unable to confirm the tracks ahead were clear. For years, that delay stood as the earliest known case of the sun interfering with…
Solar module imports drop 48% in Brazil in H1
Brazil imported 5.48 GW of PV modules in the first half of 2026, down 48% from 10.57 GW in the same period of 2025, according to a survey by consultancy Greener. The contraction reflects a sharp slowdown in demand for PV equipment, particularly…
Tesla's $10.1 billion Texas solar gigafactory clears key tax hurdle
esla's proposed $10.1 billion solar cell and module manufacturing facility in Texas has cleared a major local regulatory hurdle following a unanimous vote by a Houston-area school board. The board of trustees for the Lamar Consolidated Independent…
Minnesota PUC Backs Tribe's Solar Array Over Utility Threat
The Upper Sioux Community can move toward activating the 2.5-megawatt solar array built to help power Prairie's Edge Casino Resort after the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ruled Thursday that Minnesota Valley Cooperative Light and Power…
Ice was abundant in the young solar system, but the first worlds formed almost without it
Far from the Sun, the early outer solar system had no shortage of ice. Yet the first solid bodies that formed there contained very little of it. Damanveer Grewal and his colleagues put the icy dust at 8% to 17% of what those bodies were made from.
German grid operator dispute limits battery use at new solar-storage hybrid plant
hybrid power plant combining 69 MW of solar generation with a 76.5 MWh battery has entered operation in Brandenburg, Germany, southeast of Löwenberg, after roughly four years of development, permitting, planning, financing and construction.
Solar factories running at roughly 60 percent of global output carry a tunnel layer around one nanometer thick, and a perovskite cell built on that same TOPCon platform reached certified efficiency past 34 percent
A silicon wafer comes off a production line looking like a dark blue tile, lightly textured, unremarkable. Buried on its rear surface is a layer of oxide too thin to see or meaningfully imagine at human scale. That invisible film is now inside the…
An unaffordable car market highlights Iran's cost-of-living crisis
Tehran, Iran – Hossein, a 32-year-old marketing specialist based in Tehran, has been thinking of replacing his 13-year-old Iranian-made car with a newer model. Even though he earns about four-and-a-half times the minimum wage after a recent…
An 'impossible' black hole merger may finally be solved thanks to Einstein's relativity - but it raises an even bigger mystery
Astronomers suspect that a never-before-seen variation of a space-time phenomenon could explain an 'impossible' black hole merger that has puzzled experts for years. But if their theory is true, it creates an entirely new mystery to solve. On Nov.
What is the Best Human-Centric Climatic Baseline?
The IPCC references global mean temperature increases to the 1850-1900 mean (IPCC, 2021, Ch. 2&4), and radiative forcing increases to 1750 (IPCC, 2021, Ch 7), then uses the two numbers to help them model warming since the pre-industrial period.
Blue State's Supreme Court Just Struck Down A Voter-Backed Pro-Natural Gas Measure
Washington's highest court struck down a voter-approved measure protecting natural gas access Thursday, dealing a blow to an effort to preserve consumer energy choice as similar battles over building electrification play out across the country. The…
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