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Solar farm to be built near M4 in Wiltshire despite concerns
A solar farm capable of generating enough electricity to power thousands of homes will be built on farmland near the M4, despite concerns over its impact on the countryside. Wiltshire Council has granted planning permission for Flaxlands Solar Farm…
Solar farm to be built near M4 in Wiltshire despite concerns
Peter Davison Local Democracy Reporting Service A solar farm capable of generating enough electricity to power thousands of homes will be built on farmland near the M4, despite concerns over its impact on the countryside. Wiltshire Council has…
RELIC use direct current from solar panels without conventional conversion.
Rune wants unused solar electricity powering GPUs instead of going to waste RELIC connects computing equipment directly to functioning solar generation sites The system operates without grid connections or conventional data center construction A…
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…
Suniva raises $835 million to accelerate its 4.5 GW solar cell factory in South Carolina
Suniva has closed an $835 million capital raise to fund the construction of a new 4.5-gigawatt solar cell manufacturing facility in Laurens County, South Carolina, the company announced on September 8, injecting fresh momentum into what would…
An old train schedule solved a mystery about one of history's first solar storms
A train can't leave a station until someone confirms the track ahead is clear. In Victorian England that confirmation came down a telegraph wire, and one October night the signalers at Exeter couldn't get one. The 10:05 p.m. express stood at the…
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…
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.
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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