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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Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System. The object was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy), which takes advantage of the Subaru Telescope’s wide field
A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories Read More »
Robert Rapier Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer in the energy industry. He has 25 years of international engineering experience in the chemical, oil and gas, and… More Info Premium Content By Robert Rapier – Jul 19, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT Natural gas has become the indispensable backbone of modern energy systems, fueling power plants,
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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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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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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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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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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
Latest News , Features , Long Reads Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews Average module prices in the US distributed sector hit a high of US$0.28/W in May. Image: Anza. The average price of solar panels used in distributed generation projects in the US increased from US$0.25/W at the start of the year to a
Average distributed solar module price hits US$0.27/W in the US at the end of June Read More »
Latest News , Features , Long Reads Features , Editors’ Blog , Interviews European renewable energy PPAs have increased by 700% in June after an unusually low activity in May. Chart: Pexapark. Companies have signed 4.22GW of solar PV power purchase agreements in the first half of 2025, according to Swiss consultancy Pexapark. This is
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