For decades, scientists have tried in vain to accurately predict solar flares — intense bursts of light on the Sun that can send a flurry of charged particles into the solar system. Now, using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, one team has identified flickering loops in the solar atmosphere, or corona, that seem to signal when
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Total and annular solar eclipses in the 2020s and early 2030s. (Image credit: Michael Zeiler/GreatAmericanEclipse.com) Eclipse-watchers have plenty to look forward to in the next decade. Over the next ten years, Earth will experience seven total solar eclipses that will see skywatchers in Australia, Egypt, Spain and Sudan peer up at the central shadow of
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The Rural Electrification Agency (REA) has identified the provision of solar-powered energy to public institutions as a central focus of its agenda for the 2025 fiscal year. This strategic move aligns with the agency’s ongoing commitment to providing sustainable energy solutions across rural Nigeria. Abba Aliyu, the Managing Director of REA, made this stated this
Latest Two companies in Slovenia have allegedly attempted fraud involving €340,000 in EU funds. Image: EPPO. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) has opened an investigation into an attempted fraud involving solar PV plants in Slovenia. Although the investigation is still ongoing, the allegations relate to an attempted fraud involving €340,000 (US$352,000) in European Union
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Latest This is the second US-made inverter supply deal Summit Ridge has signed. Image: PV Tech Israel-headquartered solar inverter producer SolarEdge has signed a supply deal with US community and commercial solar developer Summit Ridge Energy for US-made inverters. The inverters will be used for commercial solar installations across the US “estimated to exceed 100MW”,
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A new report from GridBeyond examines how regulations and solar resources drive prices in the United States. January 15, 2025 Michael Puttré From pv magazine USA A new white paper from UK-based energy services provider GridBeyond shows how regulatory policies and specific market drivers dramatically affect utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) availability and economics in
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Regional highways will gain self-adaptive electronic signage with machine learning capability as part of a $5 million technology trial in New South Wales. Launched by the NSW Government, the new ‘Smarter Highways’ program will introduce several new and existing technologies to improve road safety in regional areas. Most of the trial technologies are wireless solar-powered
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Latest X-Elio entered the Australia solar PV market with its 200MW Blue Grass plant in Queensland (above). Image: X-Elio. Spanish solar PV developer X-Elio has submitted a 720MW solar-plus-storage project in Queensland, Australia, to the Federal government for approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The North Burnett Renewable Energy Hub, located
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Monika Luabeya Jan 14, 2025 An adult Alamosaurus sports eclipse glasses outside of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was
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Chinese scientists have announced a plan to build an enormous, 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) wide solar power station in space that will beam continuous energy back to Earth via microwaves. The project, which will see its components lofted to a geostationary orbit above Earth using super-heavy rockets, has been dubbed “another Three Gorges Dam project
