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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…
Op-Ed: Is America restricting itself out of the robotics market? It's looking pretty weird.
The US ban on new foreign robots and, for some unfathomable reason, power inverters has met with deep skepticism. Chinese robots and power inverters aren't specifically mentioned, but there are few, if any, others worth mentioning. China is, as…
So much solar: Digging into the list of every us power plant that went online this year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much. It's been a wild first half of the year in the U.S. power sector, with announcements of gigantic natural gas power plants and some long-awaited renewable energy…
Kookmin University Solar Car Team holds technical exchange with Hyundai Motor staff
The Kookmin University Solar Car Team (KUST) held a technical exchange meeting with Hyundai Motor staff members at the university's Seoul campus on Aug. 7 to prepare for its participation in the 2027 World Solar Challenge. The university said…
Solar demand prompts calls for local manufacturing
Growing demand for solar power in Africa's largest economies is driving governments to strengthen local manufacturing of components for panels. But China's dominance of the supply chain means those ambitions could take years to materialize, energy…
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 Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn't really about a discovery, it's about a mistake we didn't know we were making. This is one of those, and it happens to be about one of our nearest planetary neighbours. Venus takes 243 Earth…
UPSSSC Announces Recruitment for Junior Engineers in Agriculture
The Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) has announced the recruitment of Junior Engineers (Agriculture) for 2026. Applications will be accepted from September 17 to October 7, 2026, with eligibility criteria including a…
UK's biggest EV battery gigafactory shelves expansion as Jaguar Land Rover talks stall
The UK's biggest gigafactory has shelved plans to expand production in Sunderland because of stalled talks on a deal to supply electric car batteries to Jaguar Land Rover. Chinese-owned AESC produces batteries for Nissan at its gigafactory next…
China's landmark Ecological and Environmental Code takes effect to drive green modernization
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 11, 2026 shows egrets in a wetland of Honghe National Nature Reserve in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Photo: Xinhua) China took a major step toward green modernization on Saturday as its landmark…
Rajasthan to introduce Civil Code 2026, says CM Bhajanlal Sharma
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on Saturday said the state government would be introducing the Rajasthan Civil Code 2026 in line with the constitutional spirit of Article 44, which provides for a Uniform Civil Code. Addressing 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…
Kenya high school begun by Boisean leads to high grades, bright futures
KANGUNDO, Kenya — Imagine a high school that achieves the top academic test scores in a county with a population of 1.4 million and 270 high schools. A school that consistently wins championships in both academics and athletics. A school…
SEG Solar opens 4 GW Tomball factory; previously announced third facility would push total to 10.6 GW
SEG Solar opened a new 4-gigawatt solar module assembly plant in Tomball, Texas on August 7, marking one of the largest single-facility additions to American solar module manufacturing capacity in recent years. At the grand-opening ceremony, the…
Hooray for America's 250th anniversary! But beware complacency | Tom Cronin
America has had a remarkable and largely successful journey since 1776 yet this is not the time for complacency or premature bragging about American exceptionalism. Yes we are special and blessed, yet we need more breakthroughs, imagination and…
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