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Commercial Solar Projects in Rajkot: Types and Benefits
With the influence of sustainability and electricity prices, the rise in commercial solar projects in Rajkot is making a considerable impact on India's business landscape. In particular, Gujarat has become a solar adoption hub. Several businesses…
Alberta introduces $14 solar panel recycling fee, landfill ban
Albertans purchasing new solar panels next month will face a new hefty fee for recycling them. Environment Minister Grant Hunter announced Thursday a ban on landfill disposal for the panels and the $14 recycling fee per panel beginning Oct. 1.
Section 232 price floors on solar wafers set a $100-per-kilogram threshold the US barely produces
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 6, 2026, imposing new tariffs on imports of polysilicon and certain downstream polysilicon derivatives under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The measures take effect for goods…
JA Takes Integrated Solar-Plus-Storage Solutions on the Road Across Europe
PABIANICE, Poland, Sept. 4, 2026 /CNW/ -- JA has officially launched its first European roadshow, Journey Ahead: JA Roadshow 2026, with the inaugural stop in Poland. The mobile showcase will travel across the continent over the next eight weeks…
WeWork India to develop 10 MWp solar power plant in Karnataka
WeWork India Management Limited, a flexible workspace developer promoted by real estate developer Embassy Group, plans to develop a 10 MWp (DC) ground-mounted solar power plant in Karnataka with an investment of ₹35 crore. The location is…
Is Google paying for Cypress Solar-or are you?
Is Google paying in full for its massive solar farm to power its West Memphis data center or not? One would think it is a simple ‘yes' or ‘no' answer. On a damage-control press tour after a tumultuous week that included splashy…
A 3.5-gigawatt US solar factory runs no silicon wafers at all, and the key material inside every panel was headed for a copper refinery waste pile
A sheet of glass rolls into a machine and vapor condenses onto its surface in layers thinner than a human hair. No silicon crystal is grown, sliced, or handled anywhere in the building. About four and a half hours later, a fully functioning solar…
New solar farm almost as big as Heathrow proposed for Oxfordshire
Spread across 2,800 acres, Cearn Solar Farm has been proposed for land south of Garford, east of Charney Bassett, north of West Hanney, south of Goosey and north east of Baulking. It would cover a greater amount of Oxfordshire's land than Botley…
PM Surya Ghar: Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra lead residential rooftop solar installations in August
India's residential rooftop solar power capacity under the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSG: MBY) surpassed 16,000 MW in August with Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra leading the tally. Under the PMSG: MBY, the pan-India installed residential…
News and Announcements - NASA Science
Check here for all the latest PESTO events... PLANETARY EXPLORATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY OFFICE NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface…
PICASSO24 Awards - NASA Science
NASA has made four new awards through the Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations (PICASSO) program. The PICASSO portfolio focuses on early-stage ideas -- defined as concepts at a Technology Readiness Level…
NASA PICASSO Awards - NASA Science
NASA has made 10 new awards through the Planetary Instrument Concepts for the Advancement of Solar System Observations (PICASSO) program. The PISCASSO23 projects will expand NASA's portfolio of technology available for the development of missions…
How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a 'fossil record' dating back to the formation of the sun. The research reveals that magnetism played a far greater role in the birth of the solar system than had previously been suspected.
2024 MatISSE Program Selections - NASA Science
The MatISSE 2024 projects will expand NASA's portfolio of instrument technology available for the development of missions exploring a wide range of environments, from the hot surfaces of inner planets to the far-flung icy worlds on the edges of the…
Beyond Recycling: How An Indian Company Is Turning Industrial Waste Into Precision Metal
Most of India's manufacturing runs on raw materials that are either mined fresh or imported, and both routes have gotten less predictable in recent years, as commodity prices swing and supply chains for critical metals concentrate around a handful…
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