Monthly Archives: July 2026

New law makes developers pay to decommission solar panels on rented land – The Black Chronicle

(The Center Square) – As large-scale solar projects become a growing part of Pennsylvania’s energy mix, policymakers and communities are confronting an increasingly important question: What happens to the panels and other equipment when these facilities reach the end of … Continue reading

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Dutch students just unveiled an ambulance that runs everything on sunlight, the X-ray, the ultrasound, the vaccine cooler and the wheels themselves, built to be parked as the clinic in villages past the last power line – Autonocion.com

By: Luis ReyesPublished: Jul 27, at 2:00pm ETAn ambulance is built around one job: getting a person from wherever they collapsed to the nearest building with doctors in it. The siren, the gurney, the engine burning fuel, all of it … Continue reading

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From California to Texas, solar and storage hit a record 91% of new U.S. power capacity – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.Those peaks coincided with record-high demand.Photo Credit: iStock New data shows just how quickly America is adopting solar energy to … Continue reading

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Op-ed: Agrivoltaics isn’t one thing. Our policy shouldn’t be either. – Solar Power World

Solar Power WorldBy Lauren Glickman, VP o fpolicy and communications, Encore Renewable Energy | July 27, 2026Farming and solar energy share something fundamental: they both depend on land, sunlight and long time horizons. A solar array generating power for 25+ … Continue reading

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MNRE Adds New Solar Cell Makers In Eighth ALMM List-II Revision – Construction World India

The initial ALMM List-II, released on 31 July 2025, included leading manufacturers across the country, including Emmvee Energy in Karnataka, Premier Energies in Telangana, Mundra Solar in Gujarat, Jupiter International in Himachal Pradesh and FS India Solar Ventures in Tamil … Continue reading

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Controversy over solar panel installation on greenfield site – BBC

The planning would see solar panels installed on a greenfield site rather than the applicant's houseA planned solar panel installation proposed to be installed on what is believed to be a greenfield site has drawn criticism.If approved, the installation in … Continue reading

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Espe Wins €3.9 Mln Contract For Photovoltaic Revamping In Verona – TradingView

Espe Wins €3.9 Mln Contract For Photovoltaic Revamping In Verona  TradingViewsource

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Croatia’s first energy community begins sharing solar power – pv magazine Global

Croatia’s first energy community is now operational. The community utilizes a rooftop solar plant on the building of the volunteer fire brigade in Špičkovina, a settlement near Zabok in the county of Krapina-Zagorje, northern Croatia.The project, implemented by the North-West … Continue reading

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Ameresco Sunel Energy SA Expands Romania's Renewable Energy Footprint with New 58MWp Solar Project in Arad County – Morningstar

Ameresco Sunel Energy SA Expands Romania’s Renewable Energy Footprint with New 58MWp Solar Project in Arad County  Morningstarsource

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Agri-PV plant of 23 MW goes online in Germany – Renewables Now

Renewables Now is a leading business news source for renewable energy professionals globally. Trust us for comprehensive coverage of major deals, projects and industry trends. We’ve done this since 2009.Stay on top of sector news with with Renewables Now. Get … Continue reading

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Huawei EV Charging Pushes Into European Depots: EU Already Froze Its Solar Parts – Tech Times

Huawei is actively marketing its FusionCharge integrated charging system to European fleet and depot operators, promoting a hardware stack that bundles solar generation, battery storage, and high-power EV chargers into one platform — and positioning the combination as the answer … Continue reading

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Hawaii is replacing power-plant turbines that have run for nearly 70 years with jet-engine technology that can reach full power in under 10 minutes – Energies Media

Energies Media Some of the turbines still spinning at O’ahu’s Waiau Power Plant were installed back in 1947. That is over a decade before Hawaii even became the 50th state in 1959.Decades later, those old steam engines are still working … Continue reading

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From freezer to solar farm: Inside Snowplanet’s energy shift – NZ Herald

From freezer to solar farm: Inside Snowplanet’s energy shift  NZ Heraldsource

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PV Hardware USA builds out Houston factory footprint to meet U.S. tracker demand – pv magazine USA

PV Hardware USA builds out Houston factory footprint to meet U.S. tracker demand  pv magazine USAsource

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Phase-Uniform Mixed-Halide Perovskites Enable Stable Tandem Solar Cells – Bioengineer.org

Mixed-halide wide-bandgap perovskites are a cornerstone for tandem solar cells—but they have a stubborn habit: they segregate into I-rich and Br-rich domains, sometimes even from the very first moments of film formation. That asymmetric nucleation breaks the intended bandgap uniformity, … Continue reading

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Plans for solar panels on newly acquired hospital building among latest applications – Yahoo News UK

PLANS for solar panels to be installed on the new building of a Salisbury hospital are among the recent planning applications.The plans are for South Newton Hospital on Warminster Road in Salisbury, which has recently been acquired by Salisbury NHS … Continue reading

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Open-access framework for intraday PV power prediction – pv magazine Global

A research team from Switzerland and the Netherlands presented a novel framework for intraday spatiotemporal PV power prediction at the national scale. The new framework combines satellite-based deep learning and optical-flow approaches together with physics-based numerical weather prediction models.“Knowing beforehand … Continue reading

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Ex-defence chief calls out Australia’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde climate policy’ – PV Tech

Ex-defence chief calls out Australia’s ‘Jekyll and Hyde climate policy’  PV Techsource

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Homebuyer goes under contract, then learns the 18-year-old solar setup is dead, and the roof may be, too – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.Solar on a home does not automatically mean lower energy bills.Photo Credit: Reddit Buying a home is stressful, and finding … Continue reading

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Voltalia surpasses 2GW of operational solar capacity in H1 2026 – PV Tech

Voltalia surpasses 2GW of operational solar capacity in H1 2026  PV Techsource

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First US solar cobalt plant taps groundwater for 70% recycling system – Interesting Engineering

From daily news and career tips to monthly insights on AI, sustainability, software, and more—pick what matters and get it in your inbox.Discover the engineering revolution transforming modern defense with Strength, Stealth, Speed: The Very Fast Future of Advanced DefenseAccess … Continue reading

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Texas homeowner tracks power use, asks Reddit how solar could add up for their house – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.“Your neighbors likely have home batteries as well for immediate backup power.”Photo Credit: iStock In some Texas suburbs, rooftop panels … Continue reading

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As solar breaks records, its security must catch up – pv magazine USA

In May 2026, solar broke a record by doing something it had never done before in the United States: it generated more electricity than coal. According to data analyzed by energy think tank Ember, solar contributed 12.8% of the country’s … Continue reading

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Community Solar Delivers Affordability Close to Home – PR Newswire

Searching for your content… In-Language News Contact Us 888-776-0942 from 8 AM – 10 PM ET Jul 27, 2026, 16:07 ETShare this articleCase study: How a solar project in suburban Chicago is lowering utility bills, expanding access to renewable energy, … Continue reading

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Massive Husky Howl Solar Farm receives ag rezone; permit on hold – Local News 8

Massive Husky Howl Solar Farm receives ag rezone; permit on hold  Local News 8source

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Brazil Photovoltaic Market Size, Share, Trends, Report 2035 – Market Research Future

Brazil Photovoltaic Market Size, Share, Trends, Report 2035  Market Research Futuresource

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Why India’s renewable energy equipment imports are getting harder, not easier – pv magazine India

India’s Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) didn’t just add a compliance step to solar procurement — it rewrote who gets to sell into the market at all. Government-funded projects, PSU tenders, open-access installations, and net-metering schemes can now … Continue reading

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Malaysia launches tender for 2.5GW of solar PV with co-located battery storage – Energy-Storage.News

The government of Malaysia has unveiled the next round of its Large-scale solar (LSS) program tender seeking 2.5GW of solar PV co-located with 1.25GW of battery energy storage system (BESS) capacity.Held by the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation, … Continue reading

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Waaree Renewable Technologies Enters New Zealand with Utility-Scale Solar and BESS Project – Energetica India Magazine

Waaree Renewable Technologies has signed an ECI agreement for a utility-scale solar PV and BESS project in New Zealand, partnering with local companies to deliver one of the country's largest renewable energy developments while expanding its international presence in the … Continue reading

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SolarEdge and Apollo Energy Donate 60-kW Solar Installation to Cut Denver Nonprofit's Utility Costs, CO2 Footprint – energytech.com

Advancing the commercial and industrial energy transition.“The Roots” refugee facility in Aurora, Colorado. | Credit: Project Worthmore’s Facebook page.Distributed energy developer SolarEdge Technologies and solar installer Apollo Energy are leading an industry partnership to support local communities through energy development … Continue reading

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Australian researchers achieve 30.2% efficiency for 10 cm2 perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell – pv magazine Global

Researchers from the University of SYdney in Australia have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 30.2% for a two-terminal (2T) monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell.The result was confirmed by the PV Performance Lab at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research … Continue reading

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An Illinois homeowner sent a megawatt-hour of solar power back to the grid and still received a $153 electric bill because of one hidden rate-plan trap – Energies Media

Energies Media A 20-kilowatt solar system sitting on a western Chicagoland roof generated so much electricity last spring that the home sent roughly a megawatt-hour of surplus power back to the grid. The owner expected a bill close to zero … Continue reading

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'It is easy to get lost in this jungle of solar panels' – University of Colorado Boulder

Top photo: Livestock graze near solar panels in eastern Tibet (Photo: Sanggay Tashi) How the development of solar and wind farms on the Tibetan Plateau is affecting local communitiesChina is building some of the world’s largest solar farms on the Tibetan … Continue reading

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Solar sector in value rebuilding – chinadailyhk

Strict standards to weed out obsolete capacity, give bigger role to high-techAlthough China’s domestic photovoltaic installations will likely experience their first full-year negative growth since the era of grid-parity this year, a critical market turning point is not far away, … Continue reading

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Sinovoltaics updates solar module manufacturer financial stability ranking – pv magazine India

Sinovoltaics, a Hong Kong-headquartered technical compliance and quality assurance provider, has released its latest quarterly PV Module Manufacturer Ranking Report, tracking the Altmann-Z scores for 64 manufacturers from September 2022 to June 2026.“Hyundai Heavy Industries, JG Solar and First Solar hold the … Continue reading

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Solar-powered facade systems that turn the building envelope into a power source – The Architect’s Newspaper

Solar-powered facade systems that turn the building envelope into a power source  The Architect’s Newspapersource

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Criticism over planned solar panels on greenfield site – BBC

A planned solar panel installation has drawn criticism due to it being proposed for a what is believed to be a greenfield site.If approved, the installation in St Sampson would see 72 ground-mounted panels on agricultural land which has had … Continue reading

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Official Implementation of Photovoltaic Cost Accounting Standard: Long-Advocated Anti-Involution Initiative Finally Gets Complete "Cost Specification Documents" – 36 Kr

The official implementation of photovoltaic cost accounting standards puts an end to chaotic practices and regulates low-price competition in the industry.According to Energy Foresight, on July 27, the group standard T/CPIA 0156-2026 *General Rules for Photovoltaic Industry Cost Accounting Model* … Continue reading

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Denver launches $1,500 heat pump rebate, plus free energy advising – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.“We know the decision to switch to a heat pump can feel like a big one.”Photo Credit: iStock Denver-area homeowners … Continue reading

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Solar panel prices keep dropping, but waiting could cost more if incentives vanish – Yahoo Finance

Solar panel prices keep dropping, but waiting could cost more if incentives vanish  Yahoo Financesource

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Ark Energy has secured a final investment decision for its AUD 1.3 bil – Shanghai Metals Market

Data Source Statement: Except for publicly available information, all other data are processed by SMM based on publicly available information, market communication, and relying on SMM's internal database model. They are for reference only and do not constitute decision-making recommendations.Notice: … Continue reading

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Central Florida homeowner eyes $40,000 battery, then learns ACs and 8 fridges may be the real drain – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.For many families, an $800 to $900 monthly electric bill is already a financial emergency.Photo Credit: iStock A homeowner in … Continue reading

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NLC India Invites Bids To Procure 1,500 Acres In Gujarat For Major Solar Power Projects – SolarQuarter

NLC India Invites Bids To Procure 1,500 Acres In Gujarat For Major Solar Power Projects  SolarQuartersource

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Germany-based solar developer ib vogt has started commercial generatio – Shanghai Metals Market

Data Source Statement: Except for publicly available information, all other data are processed by SMM based on publicly available information, market communication, and relying on SMM's internal database model. They are for reference only and do not constitute decision-making recommendations.Notice: … Continue reading

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Iberville Parish residents oppose Entergy solar farm plan along Hwy. 75 – WAFB

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The Harry J. Olson Senior Center nears completion of solar project – WXOW

The Harry J. Olson Senior Center nears completion of solar project  WXOWsource

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Solar panel prices keep dropping, but waiting could cost more if incentives vanish – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.A lower equipment price six months from now does not necessarily translate into a lower final bill.Photo Credit: iStock Declining … Continue reading

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Electronic Resonance Boosted Molecule Improves Perovskite Solar Cell Performance – Bioengineer.org

Perovskite solar cells have leapt forward in efficiency in part because self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) can be grown on transparent conductive oxides such as TCO-coated indium tin oxide (ITO). By anchoring to the oxide surface, these ultrathin layers create an interfacial … Continue reading

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Florida homeowner with battery backup asks why power still flickers with the grid at times during storms – The Cool Down

© 2025 THE COOL DOWN COMPANY. All Rights Reserved. Do not sell or share my personal information. Reach us at hello@thecooldown.com.“These summer storms with lots of lightning make for dodgy power continuity.”Photo Credit: iStock A Florida homeowner was surprised when … Continue reading

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Meridian gets consent for 110MW solar farm in New Zealand – Asian Power

Asian Power website works best with Javascript enabled. Please enable your javascript and reload the page.Project will feature around 230,000 solar panels across 134 hectares.Meridian Energy has received consent to build a 110MW solar farm near Morrinsville, Waikato, as the … Continue reading

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