Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:17:13 +0000
Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs and opportunities for expansion.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:29:53 +0000
More research shows that agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and agriculture — can pay big dividends for communities and farmers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:30:31 +0000
Clean energy isn’t just about power — it’s about people. The Ranch Sereno project shows how solar developers can navigate community opposition by designing projects to serve multiple local needs. As a solar developer, I’ve experienced firsthand how renewable energy projects can struggle to address community opposition, navigate complicated permitting … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:45:23 +0000
December has been absolutely packed with big cleantech stories. The solar power and electric vehicle markets keep growing fast, evolving, and even surprising. To be honest, when I write these weekly and bi-weekly news highlights, there are ends up being far more big and noteworthy news than I expect. It … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:51:42 +0000
Solar power and battery storage projects continue to grow strong around the world, in the US, and in California. A big project just commissioned in California adds to that story. The new project is from renewable energy developer, owner, and operator Arevon Energy. It is the Eland 1 Solar-plus-Storage Project … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 19:16:38 +0000
As I wrote a couple of days ago, one of the big and fun trends in the solar industry globally is the expansion of floating solar PV power plants. There’s just something fun about floating anything, and in this case particularly floating solar arrays. Floating solar power systems are making … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:25:03 +0000
A massive new 1.3 gigawatt solar power plant will feature thousands of acres of restored native grasslands while conserving water and reducing agricultural chemicals near a wildlife preserve.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:57:16 +0000
The scale of solar projects has gotten unfathomable. About 10 years ago, I visited a 100-megawatt solar power plant in Crimea, Ukraine. You could ride around the solar power facility on a 4-wheeler for about 15 minutes. The solar panels went further than I could see. 100 megawatts is tiny … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:36:39 +0000
Floating solar power has been one of the most interesting and fast-growing trends in the solar industry in the past several years, and especially the past couple of years. Going from an obscure, niche idea to a more and more common solution at larger and larger scale, floating solar power … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:57:42 +0000
The Philippines is working on the largest solar power plus battery storage project in the world, breaking ground on the project just a few weeks ago. Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. featured for the groundbreaking of the Meralco Terra Solar Project. The project is going to have a solar … [continued]
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