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Can India, Europe produce solar energy without China?
In December 2025, Italy awarded more than 1.1 gigawatts of solar capacity across 88 projects in the country's first auction restricted exclusively to projects built without Chinese-manufactured equipment. The winning bids averaged €66.38…
CERC allows Tata Power arm TP Saurya to sell infirm solar power to third parties
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has allowed Tata Power arm TP Saurya Ltd to continue injecting infirm power from the 100 MW solar component of its 600 MW wind-solar hybrid project and sell it to third parties until the project…
SDG&E: Nearly 25% of customers now generate power through solar
San Diego Gas & Electric Tuesday announced that more than 350,000 of its residential customers are now generating their own power through rooftop solar, around a quarter of the utility's customers. 'The energy system is changing because our…
NASA's COFFIES Center Makes Breakthrough on Solar Enigma
Researchers working with one of NASA's DRIVE (Diversify, Realize, Integrate, Venture, Educate) Science Centers are closer to unraveling a long-standing solar mystery surrounding the extreme thinness of the Sun's tachocline layer, a region critical…
Commercial Spaceflight Just Entered the Nuclear Age
The satellite industry has a power problem. The vast majority rely on solar arrays and batteries to keep running, but these systems come with limitations—sunlight isn't always available, and traditional batteries degrade quickly. One…
PM Council study blames slow battery adoption for solar-induced stress
A ‘working paper' (study) by the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC) has highlighted a niggling issue in the solar power industry — as solar power is meeting more and more of midday demand, it is forcing conventional…
SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite
The world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite has reached orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite, built by Florida-based company City Labs, launched to space early this…
The Return Of Industrial Policy: What It Means For Business
393293 01: A view of the World Bank building October 5, 2000 in Washington, DC. The World Bank bank lends money to developing countries around the world. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/ Getty Images) Earlier this year, the World Bank made a U-turn…
Fuel shortages slow Cuba's power grid restoration
July 7 (UPI) -- Cuba is slowly restoring electricity after the country's third nationwide power grid collapse of 2026 on Monday, but severe fuel shortages and aging infrastructure left much of the island without service Tuesday. According to the…
SpaceX snags Street-high $300 price target from Morgan Stanley as rocket company enters Nasdaq 100
Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of SpaceX (SPCX) on Tuesday with an Overweight rating and a $300 price target. It's the most bullish call among Wall Street's biggest investment banks and comes as SpaceX joins the Nasdaq 100 index. In a note…
Europe Is The Fastest-Warming Continent
People jump in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower during a heatwave in Paris on June 22, 2026. The latest bout of exceptionally high temperatures to hit Europe has seen outdoor events cancelled, transport disrupted, schools shut and…
Low-cost loans for solar panels could save households hundreds on bills - thinktanks
Millions of UK households could save hundreds of pounds a year on their energy bills if the government were to approve low-cost loans for solar panel installation, research has found. Solar panels with batteries are one of the cheapest ways to…
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How to turn the British sunshine into your own private power station
Solar power is booming across the UK. Last year, a record-breaking 269,000 solar installations were completed nationwide – a 37 per cent increase on the previous year and the highest calendar total ever recorded. This rapid growth is being…
Data centers' energy demand threatens Trump's 'Made in America' plan
US manufacturers in many Rust Belt cities and towns are paying significantly higher electricity costs as growing energy demand from data centers strains the largest power grid operator in the United States. The resulting squeeze on profit margins…
El Nino is here: We must be ready for its impact
El Niño is here! It is now official. With the fear of it being even a super El Niño, the authorities have been summoned by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake for an urgent discussion and instructions have been given on measures to…
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