The event last around 5 hours on March 14. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost is nearing the end of a two-week mission as the first commercial spacecraft to successfully land on the moon. Its primary objective following the March 2 touchdown inside Mare Crisium crater was to deliver 10 NASA instruments designed to
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Aiko Solar has won a 1 GW back-contact (BC) module bid in China Datang Group’s 22.5 GW tender, while CNNC Photovoltaic announced a 19.7% efficiency rating for a perovskite module and plans to launch a perovskite production line later this year. March 14, 2025 Vincent Shaw and Valerie Thompson Image: Aiko Solar Aiko Solar said
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“We’ve gone from a period of very high growth in the renewables space – different markets have ebbed and flowed depending on what’s gone on with subsidies – but fundamentally there’s been a huge amount of capital seeking to chase investments in renewables, particularly in solar,” James Pinney, country head of Northern Europe at Cubico
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Norway’s Scatec Asa has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Egypt Aluminium for a 1.1 GW solar plant with 100 MW/200 MWh of battery energy storage. The agreement has been billed as Egypt’s first utility-scale PPA with an industrial offtaker. March 14, 2025 Patrick Jowett Image: Jadon Kelly/Unsplash Norwegian renewables developer Scatec has
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The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) says it will study how energy companies are incorporating home solar costs into prices, as feed-in costs have risen 10% over the past month. March 14, 2025 Patrick Jowett Image: Taine Noble, Unsplash Feed-in costs for households with solar panels in the Netherlands have risen by about
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Navigation for News Categories Photo: 123rf Rocket Lab has made a deal with a European company aiming to give Ukraine more satellite support in the war with Russia. The New Zealand-US company was selected by Airbus Constellation Satellites to supply solar panels for 100 OneWeb Low Earth Orbit satellites for Eutelsat Group, according to a
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The government has reduced the solar net-metering rate from Rs. 27 per unit to Rs. 10 per unit to ease the financial pressure on electricity consumers who rely on the national grid. The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved changes to the net-metering rules due to the rapid increase in solar users, which has raised costs
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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Exel Solar and JA Solar signed the module supply agreement at the RE+ Mexico event this year. Image: PRNewsFoto and JA Solar. Leading Chinese module manufacturer JA Solar has signed a module supply agreement with Mexican distributor Exel Solar to provide 260MW of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon)
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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads The Haynach project will be Adapture’s first in the state of Colorado. Image: Adapture Renewables. US developer Adapture Renewables has acquired a project from Samsung C&T Renewables, which consists of a 110MW solar project co-located with a 110MW battery energy storage system (BESS). Announced 11 March, the Haynach
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A joint venture between Indonesia’s state-owned electricity utility PLN and Saudi developer ACWA Power says it remains on track to build Sumatra’s largest floating solar power array on Lake Singkarak by 2027. The renewable energy project’s managers face a difficult task on the ground getting local community members on board with the project, given lingering
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