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Solar panels on storage units: Illinois is going all in on this no-brainer
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Krzysztof…
Solar panels in Ireland: Could now be the time to cut your rising electricity bills?
According to the Dutch TTF natural gas futures, natural gas was trading at €59 per megawatt hour (mWh) this week, while prior to the outbreak of the war between the US and Iran it was trading at €31. There was a reprieve towards the…
A new California factory opened this spring to make solar panels with a perovskite crystal layer far thinner than silicon, and the physics ceiling it clears had stood since the 1960s
Walk past any rooftop or field-scale solar project in America and you're looking at essentially the same technology the industry has shipped for decades: a slab of silicon that turns sunlight into electricity. The panels got cheaper, the…
A $1.5 billion factory in Michigan is slicing silicon into slivers less than a millimeter thin, and the five-step chain it just completed for the first time in nearly a decade that lives inside every solar panel on your roof
Every solar panel sitting on an American rooftop looks like a single finished product. It has a frame, a sheet of glass and a grid of dark cells that turn sunlight into electricity. What almost nobody sees is what had to happen before assembly: a…
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…
China's green revolution and what it means for the world
China has been the world's biggest polluter since 2006, but in recent years, it has emerged as a clean energy superpower. Huge swathes of China – from the mountain plateaus of Tibet, where the sun shines brighter in the thin air, to the…
The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go? Daily news feeds present applause lines, and numerous movies include framing shots with wind turbines – blatantly or subtly promoting the…
Stokies 'driven crazy by cooing pigeons' demand council action
Families living on a Stoke-on-Trent street say their lives are being made a misery by pigeons. Residents in William Rushton Road, Smallthorne, are fed up with the noise, dust, and excrement from dozens of pigeons breeding and living underneath…
China Completes 582-Tonne Magnet For 'Artificial Sun', Eyes Fusion Power By 2030
China aims to lead future energy markets, mirroring its solar and EV success. China has completed and tested a giant 582-tonne superconducting magnet for its next-generation nuclear fusion project, a development that could strengthen its ambition…
How a Sudanese refugee became a head teacher in a Chadian camp
Adre, Chad – Sahra remembers growing up in el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, determined to outperform the boys in her class. After sitting her national examinations in 2005 and 2006, she decided she wanted to become a…
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.
As EV sales, oil costs and wildfires spike, UK gov't considers.. fewer EVs? (update)
The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government's…
Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN) Raised to 'Hold' at Wall Street Zen
Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN - Get Free Report) was upgraded by analysts at Wall Street Zen from a 'sell' rating to a 'hold' rating in a note issued to investors on Saturday. 3 Small Caps Hitting 52-Week Highs: Take Profits or Let Ride? Several other…
Assenagon Asset Management S.A. Lowers Position in Sunrun Inc. $RUN
Assenagon Asset Management S.A. trimmed its holdings in shares of Sunrun Inc. (NASDAQ:RUN - Free Report) by 54.0% in the second quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 115,874…
Michigan regulators ask lawmakers to end annual rate hikes, change how DTE, Consumers make money
Michigan's utility regulator told state lawmakers this week that legislation ending the cycle of yearly rate increases and rewriting the way utilities earn profit would do more for household energy bills than anything the commission can do on its…
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