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China's 20,000-Mile Solar Trade Route That Battled US Tariffs
To understand President Donald Trump's latest move to protect US solar manufacturers, it helps to follow the trail of a 20,000-mile trade route running through Kenya and a tiny Indonesian island off the coast of Singapore. The route allowed…
Solar Power Hits Big Milestone, Trumping Wind
How much energy does solar produce? For the first time ever, solar beat wind and nearly topped nuclear as a global electricity source in 2025, according to the latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Among solar energy companies, First Solar…
New, Solar-Powered Safari EVs Are Getting Us Closer Than Ever to Wildlife
Published August 14, 2026 11:59AM As dusk settled over the Mara Triangle, a section of Kenya's famed Maasai Mara National Reserve, Oloimina, an elderly male lion with an epic mane and a limp sustained from a tussle with buffaloes, started roaring.
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[Vantage Point] Solar Para sa Bayan: When public privilege meets accountability
The timing could hardly be worse: Loren Legarda and Leandro Leviste left the country just two days after the Ombudsman disclosed a plunder and graft investigation into their solar ventures. Their departure proves no wrongdoing, but combined with…
NASA's COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions
As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA's…
Solar Rival Is Filching Shoals' Customers, Exec Tells Jury
A solar components company has lost customers to a rival supplier selling what one executive described as a suspiciously similar electrical connection system being marketed at a fraction of the price,... To view the full article, register now.
New B.C. Hydro rules cloud the future of residential solar
When Victoria resident Bill Yearwood looks around at the other rooftops in his neighbourhood, he sees a lot of potential for solar electricity. At the four-storey house he shares with his wife and 96-year-old mother, their energy needs…
Artificial solar eclipse reveals the Sun's mysterious corona
Today's Image of the Day from the European Space Agency shows a part of the Sun that usually hides in plain sight. The violet-colored image captures the Sun's inner corona, its intensely hot outer atmosphere. The color is artificial, but the…
India on track to hit record solar power installations in 2026
India is on course to add a record 50 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity in the 2026 calendar year, largely aided by the ALMM mandate for solar PV cells and the phased removal of waivers for inter-state transmission charges. The country is set…
Solar Is Now Half of All New Power on the Grid and This ETF Still Trades Like Nobody Noticed
The Invesco Solar ETF (NYSEARCA:TAN) closed Wednesday at $52.47, up roughly 7% year to date while the S&P 500 has returned about 14%. That is a strange result for a fund whose underlying industry is now building out roughly half of every new…
Solar Panel Waste Could Become a $1 Trillion Recycling Opportunity
The global boom in solar power is helping countries move toward cleaner energy, but it is also creating a growing waste problem. New research suggests that hundreds of millions of tonnes of old solar panels could be discarded worldwide over the…
New Recycling Method Recovers Nearly 100% of Silver from Old Solar Panels
Old solar panels could become a valuable source of silver instead of ending up in landfill. Australian researchers have successfully tested a recycling process that recovered nearly 100% of the silver from discarded solar panels at a much larger…
U.S. Natural Gas Futures Gain Ground
0948 ET – U.S. natural gas futures advance in early trading with recovering LNG demand and hot weather keeping some support under the market after yesterday's slightly bearish storage report. “To the extent the solar power boom was a…
The 2026 Partial Solar Eclipse
On August 12, 2026, about an hour before sunset, Germany experienced a partial solar eclipse, while Northern Spain and Iceland experienced a total solar eclipse. In my part of Germany, the coverage was about 84 percent, i.e. as solar eclipses go…
Paradise & Infrastructure: Lessons On Building Remote Resorts
Thomas Despin, Founder & CEO of Reconnect, builds and operates remote island hospitality projects across Indonesia. When people imagine building a resort on a remote island, they often picture villas, beaches and sunset views. After years…
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