Solar Power Is Bigger Than Oil For The First Time In History ( jalopnik.com )
Solar photovoltaic energy is riding the wave of the future. Gas and oil have powered the previous hundred years of economic and industrial development, but demand for solar energy is growing even faster than China’s investment in green energy. Seven massive solar energy companies in China are building enough solar power that...
Let the Sunshine In: Exploring the Benefits of Solar Windows for a Greener Tomorrow ( www.renewableenergymagazine.com )
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TagEnergy's $4B Project in Victoria Becomes Largest Wind Farm in the Southern Hemisphere ( www.renewableenergymagazine.com )
NZTC announces UK's first national centre to advance geothermal energy ( www.renewableenergymagazine.com )
UK Infrastructure Bank, Centrica and partners invest £300M in clean energy storage ( www.renewableenergymagazine.com )
Longi claims world record-breaking 34.6% efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Colombian developer switches on 83 MW of solar ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Germany plans to increase offshore wind built up from 40GW to 50GW by 2035 and 60GW by 2037 ( energynewsmagazine.at )
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Could a Landfill Power Your Home? ( reasonstobecheerful.world )
World's Largest Solar Farm Goes Online In China ( electrek.co )
The world's largest solar farm, in the desert in northwestern Xinjiang, is now connected to China's grid. The 3.5-gigawatt (GW), 33,000-acre solar farm is outside Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital. The state asset regulator's website cited the Power Construction Corp of China and said it came online on Monday. The solar farm will...
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power ( www.pv-magazine.com )
China installs world’s 1st 18 MW wind turbine, to power 36,000 homes/yr ( interestingengineering.com )
Germany set a new renewable power generation record in Q1 ( electrek.co )
U.S. Adds Tariffs to Shield Struggling Solar Industry | American solar manufacturers are pushing for further protections for their new factories against cheaply priced imports from China. ( www.nytimes.com )
IEA: Clean energy investment to reach $2 trillion in 2024 ( www.dw.com )
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The US is putting enough solar to power 70,000 homes on old nuclear weapons sites ( electrek.co )
The US installed more solar in Q1 2024 than it did in all of 2018 ( electrek.co )
World’s biggest solar farm goes online, big enough to power a country ( www.independent.co.uk )
The world’s biggest solar plant has come online in China, capable of powering a small country with its annual capacity of more than 6 billion kilowatt hours....
How Electric Car Batteries Might Aid the Grid (and Win Over Drivers) ( www.nytimes.com )
The Best And Worst States For Solar Energy 2024 ( www.forbes.com )
According to this, California has twice the power installed than Texas; and Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii each have 3.5x the percentage of energy run by solar than Texas.