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Should you store your solar power or sell it back to the grid?
Once your solar panels are generating more electricity than your home needs, you have a choice. If you have a home battery, you can store that spare electricity and use it later. Or you can export it to the grid and get paid for the energy you send…
Steelmaking waste could store solar energy, with electric arc furnace slag leading early tests
Storing energy as heat is a proven pathway to address the challenge solar power faces when it's dark or cloudy outside by enabling the capture, storage and on-demand release of thermal energy. The process, called high-temperature thermal energy…
Piramal Pharma Solutions Advances Sustainability Efforts with Solar Power Plant Addition at Morpeth, UK Site
Piramal Pharma Solutions is installing a ground-mounted solar power plant (4.3 MWp) at its integrated drug substance and drug product site in Morpeth, UK. The new plant will provide renewable energy directly to the site through a behind-the-meter…
Rune raises $40M for its modular solar-powered data centers - SiliconANGLE
Data center hardware maker Rune today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round led by Spark Capital. The company, which is incorporated as Liitto Technology Inc., also debuted its first product. RELIC, or Renewable Energy Linked…
This is how much money solar panels can save you on your energy bills
Along with their environmental credentials, a key factor when deciding whether solar panels are worth it for your home is the answer to a simple question: how much money can they save on your energy bills? Exactly how much you'll save depends on…
Edinburgh brewery installs 400 solar panels in push for energy independence
The panels are expected to generate around 175,400kWh of electricity each year, equivalent to the annual electricity use of around 70 homes. The installation is expected to save the brewery nearly £33,000 a year and more than £820,000…
What if AI data centers didn't need new power plants?
A new data center in southwest Texas isn't connected to the grid—but it also didn't require building any new power plants. Instead, a startup called Rune used modular technology to plug in directly at a solar farm, running on solar power…
Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was
Let's put this summer's extraordinary heat in perspective. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed what so many Americans suspected, that the heat has been extra unbearable lately: This meteorological summer, which…
As Russia attacks Ukraine's grid, solar offers a path to resilience
This story was produced by Grist and co-published with The Kyiv Independent. On a spring day earlier this year, 10 men stood on the rooftop of a door manufacturing facility in the central Ukrainian town of Bila Tserkva, surveying the rows of solar…
Iowa researchers warn of future costs, energy demand caused by data centers
Updated: 8:13 AM CDT Sep 16, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Iowa researchers warn of future costs, energy demand caused by data centers Updated: 8:13 AM CDT Sep 16, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa researchers say…
Mouser's Alternative Energy Resource Center Provides Engineering Insights into New Decentralized Systems
Mouser Electronics introduces an online resource center dedicated to alternative energy, providing engineers with technical content, product updates, and insights into renewable generation, energy harvesting, and smart grids to support sustainable…
Al Gore has a surprisingly calm take on the AI data center backlash
Al Gore has spent more than two decades as one of the most recognizable voices in the climate movement, so when he talks about AI, it's worth paying attention to what he considers truly scary. And it isn't what has people protesting data centers in…
BGF Retail opens Korea's largest convenience-store logistics hub
BGF Retail has opened what it calls Korea's largest logistics center for the convenience-store industry, placing a 260 billion won ($187 million) investment at the center of its effort to remake regional distribution and support overseas expansion.
California aerospace company leases large facility in Kent
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cowboy Space, a California-based aerospace and advanced manufacturing firm, has leased a 291,035-square-foot industrial parcel of land in Kent, where it will transform a former Costco warehouse into a…
Thailand's PTTEP says every $3 rise in LNG prices could lift Thai power prices by 5%
BANGKOK, Sept 16: Every $3 per MMBtu increase in liquefied natural gas prices could raise Thai electricity prices by 5 per cent, Kanita Sartwattayu, the incoming chief executive of Thai energy firm PTTEP, told the Gastech conference on Wednesday.
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