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Why are more roofs not made of solar tiles?
Christine Ro Technology Reporter Some people in the US 'still hate the look of solar', Kate Collardson acknowledges. She would know. Collardson handles operations for the Solar Service of Colorado, a solar maintenance and inspection company. She's…
Why are more roofs not made of solar tiles?
Some people in the US 'still hate the look of solar', Kate Collardson acknowledges. She would know. Collardson handles operations for the Solar Service of Colorado, a solar maintenance and inspection company. She's also held just about every other…
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…
Webb Observes 'Extreme Debris Disks,' Providing a Window into the Early Solar System
Scientists theorize that early in the Solar System's history, collisions were relatively common as planets migrated and planetoids were hurled out of their orbits. According to the Giant Impact Hypothesis, a collision with a Mars-sized object…
Council unveils solar farm masterplan at former coal-tipping site in Prestwick
South Ayrshire Council has lodged plans to build a solar farm on a patch of land at Glenburn Bing, in Prestwick. Ayrshire Live previously told in February how concerns were raised over the felling of trees and the possible destruction of habitat at…
How we power our home with our own solar energy
Our home now runs on the solar energy that it produces almost all the time. Here is our journey and how you can do it too. Solar energy production: panels and batteries Electrify consumption: electric car and heat pumps Over the last year, our home…
French solar tender prices drop sharply in latest rounds
The results of France's latest solar tenders were announced on Oct. 7 by Maud Bregeon, the country's minister delegate for energy, during the France Renouvelables national conference. However, the official results have yet to be published by either…
An Ohio factory melts 150 tons of glass a day for solar panels, and it is the first plant in the country that makes this hidden layer at all
Every solar panel bolted to a rooftop or staked into a field starts as something closer to a window pane than a piece of electronics. That pane has to be almost perfectly clear, barely a millimeter off true, and tough enough to survive hail for a…
Prices drive Pakistan's metered solar, outages drive hidden uptake
Researchers from Pakistan and the United Kingdom have found that Pakistan's solar boom is running through two separate channels. Registered net metering is concentrated among higher-income customers in the best-served utility areas. Unregistered…
Hawaiian Electric Seeks PUC OK for Pulehu Solar on Maui
Hawaiian Electric has filed an application with Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission seeking approval to purchase power from Pulehu Solar, a 20-megawatt solar project with 80 megawatt-hours of battery storage planned on Haleakala Ranch land three…
Jackery steps into RVs with built-in 2 kW solar and 45 kWh storage
utdoor and home backup storage maker Jackery has announced it is entering the smart electric trailer market, partnering with California-based Pebble, which makes travel trailers. Jackery will deliver new custom solar panels and connections that add…
Gemini Links 09/10/2026: Optimism, Stargazing, and Solar MiniServer
I am creating this word ('meaninglesso'), which has the meaning/value of '*is* meaningless'. So it applies as, for example, 'It meaninglesso' which means 'It is meaningless'. Or, as another example, 'Nabitleko meaninglesso' which means 'Nabitleko…
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe
Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government's cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU that should not be reachable from the internet. The systems range from login…
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…
Long-serving Tory Sir John Hayes open to Reform UK co-operation
Sharon Edwards Political reporter, Lincolnshire Long-serving Conservative MP Sir John Hayes has suggested his party could work with Reform UK in the future, putting him at odds with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch. He said Reform UK were 'not capable of…
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