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No, trees can't anticipate a solar eclipse
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In April 2025, a scientific study went viral online for a particularly wild claim. A forest of Norway spruce trees (Picea abies) in the Dolomites of northern Italy appeared to rapidly…
Orleans County town fights industrial solar project
An industrial solar project proposed for a longtime hayfield in Lowell has become the subject of controversy in the small town. Located directly across the street from Lowell Graded School, the 44-acre plot has been in agricultural use for over a…
Scarborough Hospital plans for 1,000 solar panels approved
Anttoni James Numminen Local Democracy Reporting Service A hospital has been given approval to install more than 1,000 solar panels on its buildings. The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plans to fit 1,085 panels on the…
Babies with rhythm-plus Artemis delays, solar flares and PFAS concerns
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American's Science Quickly, I'm Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You're listening to our weekly science news roundup. Last week NASA's Artemis II moon mission was delayed by at least a month. After the…
Hibiscus Petroleum begins construction on 12MWp solar PV farm in Brunei
KUALA LUMPUR: Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd has commenced the construction of its 12MWp, ground-mounted solar photovoltaic (PV) farm on a 26-acre site in Sungai Liang industrial Park (Spark) in Brunei. The solar farm is expected to deliver its first power…
Native Families Were Promised Free Solar. Trump Took It Away.
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story is published in partnership with The Daily Yonder. It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy's…
US solar market positioned for continued growth in 2026
The global solar industry is poised to grow 20x by 2050, according to recent research from the International Solar Alliance. This growth will also create roughly 27 million new jobs. As the fog of last year's policy changes in the United States…
Solar-powered seesaw extractor simultaneously extracts lithium and desalinates water
The global demand for lithium has skyrocketed over the last several years due to the rapid growth of the electric vehicle market and grid-storage solutions. Currently, production capacity is limited and unlikely to meet future needs. However…
PM Surya Ghar scheme: 5-day solar awareness camps in city begin today
2 min read Chandigarh Make us preferred source on Google The Chandigarh Administration will organise solar awareness and facilitation camps in the city from February 10 to 14 to promote the adoption of rooftop solar systems among residential…
South Africans are leaving the electricity network - but are solar mini-grids a fair solution?
South Africa's electricity system is changing. After years of blackouts until 2024, the state-owned energy company Eskom is being unbundled into smaller companies, and the sector is increasingly open to private investment. Households, businesses…
TotalEnergies to provide solar power to Google's Texas data centres
Feb 9: French power group TotalEnergies on Monday signed two long-term agreements to deliver 1 gigawatt of solar capacity to supply Google's data centres in Texas. The power will be generated from sites owned by the French major in Wichita, and…
DAS Solar unveils new method to identify hot-spots in TOPCon back-contact solar modules
A group of researchers from Chinese PV module maker DAS Solar has created a new methodology to detect hot spot risks in TOPCon solar cells and modules based on back-contact (BC) architecture. “We found that the inherently low shunt…
Solar, wind PPA prices continue to fall in Europe
The European solar PPA market keep seeing contract prices decreasing, according to a new report from LevelTen Energy. The fourth quarter of 2025 confirms the downward trend in solar PPAs, with a further quarterly drop of 1% in the LevelTen…
Greece to auction up to 200 MW of solar plus storage
Greece's energy regulator has published auction calls for up to 200 MW of solar paired with energy storage and a separate 400 MW of wind capacity, representing the first implementation step of the Apollo Program aimed at supplying low-cost…
Heritage railway going green with new solar panels
Blaenavon Heritage Railway in Torfaen has secured grant funding to install 58 solar panels and battery storage, which volunteers estimate will replace around 73 per cent of the railway's electricity usage with renewable energy. Mark Langman…
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