Janta Power closed $5.5 million in seed funding to develop its vertical solar tower, with pilot programs already underway in major global airports like Dallas-Fort Worth and Munich International Airport… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/27/3d-solar-tower-increases-capacity-factor-50-triples-solar-surface-area/
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Sun King, the solar and appliances financing firm, is entering manufacuring and assembly, with its new manufacturing facility in Tatu City, in Kenya. The facility, which marks Sun Kings first manufacturing operation in Africa, is 7,600-square-metre facility with an annual production capacity of up to 700,000 units, with scope for further expansion. The plant consolidates
As the world grapples with the challenges of meeting rising electricity demand, particularly in developing countries, solar energy has emerged as a beacon of hope. In sub-Saharan Africa, where energy poverty is a persistent challenge, the potential for solar energy is vast. Monocrystalline photovoltaic (PV) panels have become a popular choice for solar energy generation
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Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. (Masdar) and Emirates Water and Electricity Co. (EWEC) have started building a solar-plus-storage project in Abu Dhabi that will deliver 1 GW of continuous baseload energy from a 5.2 GW solar plant paired with a 19 GWh battery system… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/24/masdar-ewec-break-ground-on-1-gw-baseload-solar-plus-storage-project/
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An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Full image, annotation, and caption shown below. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich, NCCR PlanetS), Sierra Grant (Carnegie Institution for Science), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI) Webb just spotted a
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HOUSTON — Doris Brown was nearly asleep when a neighbor knocked on her door, telling her to look outside. “There were no lights, nowhere,” said Brown, recalling the power outage that summer night in 2023. “I didn’t even know it.” Brown’s solar panel and battery system was keeping her power on. She’d prepared for a
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(Image credit: Nissan) Nissan creates an extending solar roof to top up EV batteries The tech is demonstrated on Japan’s top-selling small EV Japanese marque wants to roll it out commercially Nissan will showcase its take on a solar roof at the Japan Mobility show later this month, as it unveils a Sakura (Japan’s top-selling
The substation expansion will be a critical piece of transmission infrastructure, enabling one of Australia’s largest solar developments to deliver renewable energy into the National Electricity Market (NEM). Currently, the existing Bulli Creek Substation lacks sufficient capacity to accommodate the solar plant’s connection, necessitating the expansion project to enable grid integration of the renewable energy
Powerlink Queensland seeks federal tick for substation to connect 775MW solar PV plant Read More »
Latest Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads The state now hosts approximately 7.2GW of installed rooftop solar capacity. Image: Queensland government. Queensland’s rooftop solar PV systems have exceeded 5GW of output for the first time, marking a milestone in Australia’s distributed solar capacity expansion. According to data analysis by Geoff Eldridge of consultancy Global
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India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has, for the first time, recorded in real time the impact of a solar coronal mass ejection on the moon’s surface, a finding that could be crucial for future astronaut missions, Asian News International, a partner of the TV BRICS network reported. The observation, conducted using a special instrument, showed that the
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