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Japan launches call for road-surface solar technologies

Japan launches call for road-surface solar technologies

Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) has started accepting submissions for new road-surface PV technologies, with field verification planned in pedestrian areas at roadside stations to test performance and electricity use ahead of societal implementation… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/04/japan-launches-call-for-road-surface-solar-technologies/

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Tenga Solar Signs Contract With Bright Teen Inventor To Produce Revolutionary New Hybrid Battery

Tenga Solar Signs Contract With Bright Teen Inventor To Produce Revolutionary New Hybrid Battery

Tenga Solar Backs Schoolboy’s Revolutionary Energy Invention In an exclusive development, a story with the potential to rewrite the rules of renewable energy has emerged from Zimbabwe. Tenga Solar, a leading innovator in the country’s energy sector, has formally signed a contract with an 18-year-old schoolboy to produce a revolutionary hybrid battery. This device claims

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Belgian grid operator enters final phase of digital meter rollout

Belgian grid operator enters final phase of digital meter rollout

Grid operator Fluvius says that 80% of all homes, apartments and small businesses in the Belgian region of Flanders, including 89% of all solar panel owners, have now converted to digital meters as the company begins the final phase of the mandatory switch over… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/04/belgian-grid-operator-enters-final-phase-of-digital-meter-rollout/

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UK Unveils $11 Billion Clean Energy Plan to Turbocharge Wind, Solar, and Storage

UK Unveils $11 Billion Clean Energy Plan to Turbocharge Wind, Solar, and Storage

By Irina Slav – Dec 04, 2025, 12:35 AM CST The UK government has released a five-year plan that essentially doubles down on efforts to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide as a top priority in the energy space. The plan was drafted and released by Great British Energy, the newly set-up entity that the Starmer

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Sunsure Energy signs PPA for 82.5MW Indian solar project

Sunsure Energy signs PPA for 82.5MW Indian solar project

Latest Sunsure operates ten projects with a combined capacity of 260MW in Uttar Pradesh. Image: Sunsure Energy. Indian independent power producer (IPP) Sunsure Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indian drinking water brand Bisleri International. Under the terms of the deal, Bisleri will acquire power generated at Sunsure’s 82.5MW solar PV

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I watched scientists track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS leaving the solar system in real-time: ‘This is some prime-time science’

I watched scientists track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS leaving the solar system in real-time: ‘This is some prime-time science’

A screenshot of the imaging system used by the Gemini North Observatory in Hawaii to view interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. (Image credit: Gemini North Obervatory/Shadow the Scientists) It was 4 a.m. on Nov. 25 at the top of Hawaii’s dormant Maunakea volcano. The process to view the comet took less time than expected. On the main

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Astronergy, JA Solar to ‘terminate’ patent disputes, reach cross-licencing agreement

Astronergy, JA Solar to ‘terminate’ patent disputes, reach cross-licencing agreement

Latest JA Solar first filed a lawsuit against Astronergy in August 2025. Image: Astronergy Astronergy and JA Solar have announced plans to “terminate” all ongoing patent disputes, and have “reached an agreement on cross-licencing” of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) patents moving forward. The Chinese module manufacturers said that the agreement, reached over the weekend,

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AEMO charts Australia’s rooftop solar boom to 42.5GW by 2036

AEMO charts Australia’s rooftop solar boom to 42.5GW by 2036

The report states that rooftop PV capacity will expand from 25.1GW in 2026 to 42.5GW by 2036, while non-scheduled PV generation between 100kW and 30MW will grow from 1.9GW to 4.8GW over the same period. This expansion reflects the rapid adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) by Australian households and businesses, driven by policy incentives,

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Australia: 212,000 PV modules installed at 119MW state-owned solar-plus-storage site

Australia: 212,000 PV modules installed at 119MW state-owned solar-plus-storage site

The 119MW solar-plus-storage site, which features a co-located 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), has also accepted delivery of a 162.5-tonne transformer that will connect the facility to the grid and the wider National Electricity Market (NEM). As reported previously by our colleagues at Energy-Storage.news, energy storage system integrator Energy Vault will supply the BESS. The

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