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Elon Musk's solar ambitions have shifted from powering homes to powering Tesla's AI era
About a decade ago, Tesla entered its solar-for-homes era with its contentious acquisition of SolarCity. Now, Tesla's solar dreams are taking a different shape as the company enters its AI era. Tesla has inked two long-term agreements to purchase…
Solar is cheap, but building enough of it can be difficult
Posted Thu 30 Jul 2026 at 4:53am Australia is a world leader in rooftop solar, but is not building enough utility-scale solar to power industry, according to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Construction and labour costs remain a key…
Coal Still Dominates Wind and Solar, and Will for the Foreseeable Future
Rumors of coal's demise have been greatly exaggerated. For the past decade, liberal policy wonks and the mainstream media have celebrated the forced closure of numerous coal plants. The media's claims to the contrary, most of the closed coal plants…
Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands
Caribbean nations suffered $53.2bn (£40bn) of damage from climate-fuelled disasters between 2000 and 2024, research into the cost of the climate crisis to developing small islands has found. The figure is more than 90% of the total $57bn in…
Australians value batteries and EVs, but renewables industry must earn trust of regions, summit told
Organised campaigns against wind and solar energy have proved “extremely effective” in undermining community support for renewable energy but enthusiasm for electric vehicles has jumped following Donald Trump's attack on Iran…
LONGi BC Technology Powers Two World-Leading Solar Racing Teams at the 2026 Elektrek American Solar Challenge
XI'AN, China, July 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- LONGi is strengthening its commitment to innovation in solar mobility by supporting two of the world's leading solar racing teams at the 2026 Elektrek American Solar Challenge (ASC), one of North America's…
Space's Exponential Tech Moment And The Need To Secure It
Futuristic background with flying object and stars. Vector EPS10 We are living at a turning point in human history. The high frontier of space is no longer a far-off place only accessible by a select few elite projects and governments. It now…
China's solar industry is losing money. The country is doubling down anyway.
Cheap, abundant Chinese solar panels have become essential to decarbonizing the global energy system. Without them, the world's clean energy transition would have arguably been slower and more expensive. But China's solar manufacturing industry now…
Lee Promotes S. Korea-Brazil Cooperation on Civil Aircraft, Supply Chains, K-Beauty
President Lee Jae Myung, who is in Brazil on a state visit, has identified next-generation civil aircraft, critical mineral supply chains and K-beauty as promising areas for cooperation between the two countries. At a roundtable attended by…
How Next-Generation Photovoltaics Could Contribute to Electricity Storage
Due to the falling price and manageable size of silicon solar cells, the sight of solar panels on household rooftops has become familiar. However, solar energy, like many other sustainable forms of energy, is intermittent. At peak times, such as on…
Orbital Data Centers Are a Crazy Idea. Go For It.
Why not just build them in space? As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and…
US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The move largely affects imports from China, which currently…
Family friendly Houston brewery closes after 10-year run
This has been yet another trying year for Houston area brewers, and especially for those north of the Interstate 610 Loop. Joining the likes of Southern Star Brewing and Fire Ant in the brewery graveyard is 10-year-old City Acre Brewing. City Acre…
Solar plant set up to help SCCL subsidiary APHMEL save on its energy bill
Chairman and Managing Director of Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) Buddhaprakash Jyoti virtually inaugurated the 300 Kilowatt (Kw) solar power plant established at the Andhra Pradesh Heavy Machinery & Engineering Limited (APHMEL), a…
America's Surprising Energy Advantage
The clean energy transition has entered a new phase. Ambitious net-zero emission pledges made over the past decade have fallen glaringly short of their goals. But the rise of artificial intelligence—and the proliferation of data centers to…
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