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MPs criticise Green Hill Solar Farm approval in Northamptonshire
Two Conservative MPs have criticised the approval of plans for one of the biggest solar farms in the country. Stuart Andrew, the MP for Daventry and Sarah Bool, the MP for South Northamptonshire, claimed Green Hill Solar Farm would take up farmland…
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…
TV presenter visits community-owned solar project in Ayrshire town
TV presenter and architectural designer, Charlie Luxton, visited Ayr this week to see first hand a community-owned solar project in action. The SP Energy Networks and TV host joined forces for a roadshow to educate communities throughout the…
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…
Austria: 43,300 applications for solar subsidies submitted in just ten minutes
Austria opened its third and final funding round of the year for photovoltaic systems and battery storage on Thursday afternoon. Demand was even higher than in the previous round, according to an announcement issued Friday by the Federal Ministry…
Quanta Unit Blattner Starts Work on $1.5B Solar Project in Missouri
The project, being developed by San Francisco-based Clearway, is the company's first solar facility in Missouri. It is backed by a 20-year power purchase agreement and is part of a 1.2-GW portfolio of projects the developer announced earlier this…
More than 70% of announced U.S. solar manufacturing expansion plans yet to be financed
In the final part of the special Austin-debrief series of articles this week in pv magazine, I review the outlook for U.S. solar manufacturing capital expenditure (capex) by quarter to the end of 2027. For reference, Part 1 of the series addressed…
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…
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…
He'll Inherit His Mother's Phoenix House and 17 Years of Someone Else's Solar Lease. The Buyer's Lender Will Want It Gone, and the Payoff Will Be $31,000
His mother's Phoenix house came to him with a roof full of solar panels she never owned. A solar company owns them, and its lease has 17 years left to run. When he lists the house, the buyer's lender will almost certainly want that contract cleared…
One table of US grid interconnection queues: solar, storage, wind and data center requests
Every new solar farm, battery, wind project, gas plant and large load (data centers, chip fabs, hydrogen) has to file an interconnection request with its grid operator before it can connect. The queues are public. For anyone selling into energy…
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…
Long-serving Tory Sir John Hayes open to Reform UK co-operation
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 governing on their own' but were 'on the same…
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