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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…
India curtails 8,133 GWh of solar power as grid struggles to absorb excess daytime supply
3 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google During April-June, when the country's peak power demand touched a record high of 270 gigawatts (GW), the grid operators had to curtail 8,133 gigawatt-hour (GWh) of electricity generated by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It's official: Data centers are slowing America's shift away from coal
As tech companies have built hundreds of hyperscale data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom, they have triggered conflicting predictions over how these facilities will affect the nation's power grid. Critics have argued that data…
New venison processing unit set to be established on Isle of Raasay
The Scottish government has announced today (Wednesday, July 29) that it will be transforming a disused ferry store into a community-owned venison processing unit for the Isle of Raasay, as part of a £750,000 investment. The £129,000…
Mercury Has a Radiation Belt After All-But It's Super Wonky
Of all the solar system's planets, Mercury is an oddball. Despite being closest to the Sun, it's not the hottest planet. It quickly zips around the Sun every 88 days in the shape of a squashed oval but takes an excruciating 59 days to finish one…
Sam Altman says he gets why people don't want AI data centers in their backyard
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, says he gets why communities don't want AI data centers nearby — and suggested they may be better suited for the desert. 'I understand emotionally why people don't want data centers in their…
Real Madrid C.F. and ELITE Solar Announce Global Strategic Partnership
MADRID, Spain, July 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- Real Madrid and ELITE Solar today announced a new global strategic partnership, bringing together one of the world's most iconic sports institutions and a leading global photovoltaic manufacturer committed to…
HRD Minister Lokesh to lay stone for two clean energy projects worth ₹5,750 crore in Rayalaseema on July 30
IT & HRD Minister Nara Lokesh will lay the foundation stone for clean energy projects totalling 800 MW to be established in Anantapur and Kurnool districts by Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) with an investment of ₹5,350 crore, at…
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