B2Gold Corp. [BTO-TSX, BTG-NYSE] has completed the Phase 2.0 expansion of the solar plant at its Fekola gold mining operation in Mali. The Fekola Mine is a low-cost, world class operation, ranked as one of Africas largest gold mines. It produced 392,946 ounces of gold last year at an all-in-sustaining cost of US$1,723 an ounce. […]
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Latest Features , Featured Articles , Long Reads Dimension Energy expects to reach 800MW of PV projects in pre-construction or operational portfolio by the end of 2025. Image: Dimension Energy US community solar project developer Dimension Energy has upsized its corporate credit facility to US$300 million. The facility will allow the company to support a
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Latest Features , Featured Articles , Long Reads The deal brings the partnership between RWE and Meta to 574MW. Image: RWE. The US subsidiary of German energy company RWE has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the data and social media giant Meta for solar PV power produced at a 200MW project in Texas.
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This story was originally published by Canary Media. Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Governor Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.” That hasn’t stopped the Sunshine State from becoming a national
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Many eclipse chasers will be in a position to witness the partial solar eclipse at sunrise on March. 29, 2025. (Image credit: Willie Gillespie via Getty Images) Although it won’t be as spectacular as North America’s April 2024 total solar eclipse , the first solar eclipse since the “ring of fire” eclipse in October 2024
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Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel installations. A general view of a hybrid minigrids station in Doma Town which is mainly powered by solar energy in Doma, Nassarawa State, Nigeria on October 16, 2023. Credit: Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s
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Members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Electricity and Energy uniformly condemned the waste at the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s National Solar Water Heater Programme and urgently demanded site visits. Meanwhile, no one has been held accountable for the fruitless and wasteful expenditure… https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-15-national-solar-water-heater-programme-is-a-total-failure-after-squandering-r325m-dmre-admits/
Editor’s note: The United Nations has officially designated 44 Chinese traditions as world cultural heritage. This series examines how each of them defines what it means to be Chinese. Zhang Feiyu / HelloRF The 24 solar terms, originating in ancient China, integrate astronomy, farming, phenology and folklore. They greatly influenced Chinese life, promoted social progress,
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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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