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Total solar eclipse 2028: Everything you need to know about totality in Australia and New Zealand

Total solar eclipse 2028: Everything you need to know about totality in Australia and New Zealand

The Australian Outback will experience a long totality in 2028. (Image credit: Philip Hart/Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) On July 22, 2028, the moon’s shadow will cut a 143-mile-wide (230 kilometer) path across Australia and New Zealand. According to NASA , it will mark the first total solar eclipse visible from Sydney since 1857 and […]

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Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally

Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos says that, within two decades, gigawatt-scale datacenters powered by a continuous stream of photons from the sun will fill Earth’s orbit. Bezos’ prediction might sound like he’s auditioning for the role of Hugo Drax in the inevitable Moonraker reboot, but the billionaire businessman really believes that spaceborne datacenters are

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Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies

Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies

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EDF and Enlight advance solar-plus-storage projects in the US

EDF and Enlight advance solar-plus-storage projects in the US

Latest Enlight closed the financing for the Roadrunner project through its US subsidiary Clēnera Holdings. Image: Enlight Renewable Energy. Project update news from the US, where EDF Renewables has started work at its 150MW Milagro solar-plus-storage project in New Mexico, while Enlight Renewable Energy has completed two tax equity partnerships for its 290MW Roadrunner solar-plus-storage

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Italy opens NZIA auction under FER X decree, receives 3.1GW solar expression of interest

Italy opens NZIA auction under FER X decree, receives 3.1GW solar expression of interest

Latest The 3.1GW of bids follows the receipt of 10GW of bids for an earlier auction. Image: Enel Green Power. Italian energy management agency Gestore dei Servizi Energetici (GSE) has received 273 expressions of interest for a combined capacity of 3,161MW for its latest solar auction, ahead of its launch this month. This auction is

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Ember calls for Thailand to add 32GW of new solar capacity

Ember calls for Thailand to add 32GW of new solar capacity

Under the current draft revised power development plan (RPDP), released in 2024, Thailand aims to add 64GW of new renewable energy capacity by 2037, in order for renewables to account for 51% of domestic energy generation. This would be a significant change from the country’s energy mix, which has been reliant on fossil fuel production

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OBBBA to slow down US community solar installations until 2030

OBBBA to slow down US community solar installations until 2030

Moreover, Wood Mackenzie updated its cumulative five-year community solar outlook due to the passing of the OBBA and other federal policy changes. The new operational capacity outlook is 8% lower compared to the outlook published in Q2 2025. The new legislation “has fundamentally altered the long-term market landscape, while slowing growth in mature markets” for

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James Webb telescope spies a ‘farting’ dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system

James Webb telescope spies a ‘farting’ dwarf planet with fluorescent gas in the outer solar system

New research suggests that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faint amounts of methane gas, which is commonly produced human and animal flatulence. (Image credit: Getty Images) Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet

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