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Kerala’s solar prosumers seek revision of Renewable Energy Draft Regulations 2025 

Kerala’s solar prosumers seek revision of Renewable Energy Draft Regulations 2025 

The Kerala Domestic Solar Prosumers Community has demanded the complete withdrawal of the revised Renewable Energy Draft Regulations 2025 and sought urgent intervention of the State government for the formulation of a new policy by an expert committee. If the new draft regulations come into force, the renewable energy generation sector in Kerala, built with

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Australia: Queensland government enshrines ‘strict’ planning rules for solar PV into law

Australia: Queensland government enshrines ‘strict’ planning rules for solar PV into law

In doing so, the David Crisafulli government has fulfilled its election commitment to “empower communities on renewable energy projects.” The Bill was officially passed by the government in June 2025 and introduces the following: Impact assessment requiring mandatory public notification for proposed large-scale solar PV power plants and wind farms (which were made impact assessable in

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OX2 bags EPBC Act approval for 90MW solar-plus-storage site in Australia

OX2 bags EPBC Act approval for 90MW solar-plus-storage site in Australia

On 17 July, it was granted the “approved without conditions” notice, which officially cleared the project to go ahead. The project was first submitted to the EPBC Act on 6 June, meaning a decision was granted in 41 days. It came on the same day that PV Tech reported that the Swedish developer had submitted

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Astronomers catch solar system formation in real time

Astronomers catch solar system formation in real time

International researchers have caught a cosmic baby moment for the first time, the instant tiny particles began forming planets around a distant star. With the help of the ALMA and James Webb Space Telescopes, they watched hot minerals starting to solidify around a newborn star called HOPS-315, which lies about 1300 light-years away and resembles

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The race to build solar and wind in New York before Trump’s tax credit deadline

The race to build solar and wind in New York before Trump’s tax credit deadline

This story was originally published by New York Focus. As negotiations over President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” came down to the wire in early July, renewable energy developers were holding their breath. Until the eleventh hour, it looked like Congress was ready to make good on Trump’s promise of “terminating” key subsidies for wind and

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2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

An artist’s impression of the two TRACERS spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. (Image credit: University of Iowa/Andy Kale) A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they affect our atmosphere and satellites. NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS

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I found a compact power station with solar charging, and it’s a new off-grid essential

I found a compact power station with solar charging, and it’s a new off-grid essential

ZDNET’s key takeaways The EcoFlow Delta 3 Plus is available now for $899. It’s a compact 1,024Wh power station that can connect to external batteries, and its improved cooling mechanism makes it a lot quieter than its predecessor. The silver finish has a tendency to get dinged up. $899 at Amazon Power stations come in

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Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’

Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: ‘Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song’

An illustration shows a transneptunian object dancing in harmony with Neptune (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system

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Subaru telescope uncovers ancient ‘fossil’ object in outer Solar System

Subaru telescope uncovers ancient ‘fossil’ object in outer Solar System

Far beyond Pluto, icy wanderers known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) drift through the vast cosmic depths. Some of them orbit at incredible distances, more than 200 times farther from the Sun than Earth, making them tough to spot, but priceless to study. These elusive objects may hold secrets to how the Solar System formed, and

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