Solar Opposites season six has arrived on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, and that means Solar Opposites is over. It ends on a high note (read io9’s spoiler-free review here), and it also does a bang-up job bringing all its storylines to a close—in some surprising ways. It was all a bit of a retcon, […]
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South Korea’s OCI Holdings is entering the solar wafer business with a majority stake in a wafer plant in Vietnam valued at $120 million. The facility will produce solar wafers for the U.S. market… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/13/oci-holdings-acquires-65-stake-in-2-7-gw-vietnamese-solar-wafer-factory/
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Researchers in China have developed a dust monitoring technique that relies solely on the existing hardware resources of inverters, without requiring extra sensors or meteorological data. Tests on real rooftop PV arrays demonstrated an accuracy exceeding 96%.”… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/13/low-cost-inverter-based-dust-monitoring-method-for-rooftop-solar/
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You wake up in the small hours, the air is thick, and the fan has stopped. Or you are halfway through an online class, a meeting, or a study session, and the screen goes black. That was the soundtrack of last summer for many homes across Egypt, as scheduled power cuts moved from rumour to
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Planetary scientists are split, oscillating between two main theories that explain the order in which our solar system’s planets came to be. (Image credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images) About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational
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Solar panel fields operate in Wuzhong, a frontier city in the northwestern province Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China, in 2011. The Trump administration has canceled a proposed solar project in Nevada that would have been among the world’s largest solar power facilities. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo Oct. 10 (UPI) —
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SolarPower Europe has suspended efforts to exclude Huawei, launched in May amid a European Union bribery probe. Despite remaining a member of SolarPower Europe, the Chinese company agreed not to participate in the association’s activities due to EU-imposed restrictions… https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/10/solarpower-europe-suspends-exclusion-proceedings-for-huawei/
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A composition photo of a solar eclipse through its different stages, with totality shown in the middle. (Image credit: Josh Dury Photo Media) As the April 2024 solar eclipse crossed North America, humans weren’t the only ones affected by the dimming of the midday sun. A new study revealed that at least 29 bird species
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Latest Cost reductions in utility-scale solar PV and energy storage systems have been “unprecedented” since 2021, the researchers said. Image: Wikimedia Commons Solar PV is the world’s cheapest technology to generate electricity, according to a study from the University of Surrey, in the UK. Cost reductions in utility-scale solar PV and energy storage systems have
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Latest ‘Large customers, such as Google, help support investments in infrastructure additions,’ said Laura Landreaux, second right. Image: Entergy Arkansas. US utility Entergy Arkansas has announced plans to build a 600MW solar-plus-storage project in the city of West Memphis to support the operations of a new data centre to be built by Google. The utility
