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California rooftop solar receives setback as court upholds NEM3.0

California rooftop solar receives setback as court upholds NEM3.0

Latest The California Court of Appeals’ decision gives a setback to the rooftop solar industry in California. Image: Unsplash The California Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s ongoing net energy metering programme, NEM3.0, dashing the hopes of campaigners lobbying to reform the unpopular framework. The decision dealt a “major setback to rooftop solar”, said […]

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European solar module prices tick above €0.1/Wp as buyer optimism remains high

European solar module prices tick above €0.1/Wp as buyer optimism remains high

As a result, all four technology types reported an average price of over €0.1/Wp (US$0.12/Wp) for the first time since sun.store began tracking price data for these technology types. Monofacial TOPCOn was the most expensive module type, with an average price of €0.109/Wp, marking the first time that these modules have been more expensive than

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Morocco begins construction on 305 MW Noor Atlas solar program

Morocco begins construction on 305 MW Noor Atlas solar program

Morocco’s state energy agency and national utility have signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) and begun construction on six Noor Atlas solar plants totaling 305 MW. The project – financed by KfW, the European Investment Bank and Bank of Africa – aims to expand renewables, support local industry and create regional jobs… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/11/morocco-begins-construction-on-305-mw-noor-atlas-solar-program/

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Interstellar Objects Keep Dropping Into Our Solar System: Why Are We Still Unprepared?

Interstellar Objects Keep Dropping Into Our Solar System: Why Are We Still Unprepared?

Every few years, something strange drifts into our solar system. However, this object is not from the family of the Sun’s planets, asteroids, or comets. Instead, it comes from the vast darkness of space, traveling at tremendous velocities, carrying materials formed in a completely different planetary system. TIL Creatives I witness a colossal, icy asteroid

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Why People Keep Attacking & Vandalizing These Specific Traffic Cameras

Why People Keep Attacking & Vandalizing These Specific Traffic Cameras

TRAVIS6DANIEL/Shutterstock Have you spotted a Flock camera on your daily commute yet? If not, it’s possible somebody knocked the things down. Over 80,000 of these surveillance traffic cameras have been installed across the US so far, making them one of the most widespread forms of surveillance in the country. Unsurprisingly, not everyone’s thrilled by that

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Scientists Map the Hidden Chemistry of Solar-Powered Catalysts

Scientists Map the Hidden Chemistry of Solar-Powered Catalysts

Three layers of a silver ion-doped polyheptazine imide polymeric network. In this example the metal ions are located between the layers, inducing lattice expansion and structural distortion. However, the polymeric backbone remains intact. Only the pore geometry changes. Credit: B. Schröder/HZDR A new computational approach reveals how subtle structural changes in polyheptazine imides can dramatically

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Cameroonians turn to private solar grids in response to prolonged power cuts

In Mile four of the New Council area in Bamenda, of the North West region of Cameroon, residents have increasingly turned to solar energy to cope with prolonged and unpredictable electricity disruptions as the country’s electricity crisis intensified. For the past two years, households in this part of town say they have experienced inconsistent or

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Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ plans draw mixed reactions from solar industry

Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ plans draw mixed reactions from solar industry

In a statement, the Commission said the IAA “aims to increase value creation in the EU, strengthening our industrial base against the backdrop of growing unfair global competition and increasing dependencies on non-EU suppliers in strategic sectors”. For renewable energy technologies, that dependence and “unfair global competition” stems from China’s dominance of the global solar

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