1+ week, 6+ day ago   (317+ words) Using several years of records from a home solar setup, a Lebanese man mapped how his system performs over the course of the year, revealing major seasonal swings in generation. After exporting roughly four years of inverter logs into a…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (406+ words) Elon Musk leaned into one of space history's strangest coincidences, joking "As foretold in the prophecy" after a passage from rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun's late-1940s Mars fiction resurfaced online describing the elected leader of a future Martian government as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (468+ words) A new battery project in Kern County is taking aim at one of solar power's biggest challenges: timing. In Kern County's valley region, the Sandrini Energy Storage facility has been completed beside an existing 300-megawatt solar farm. Houston-based EDP Renewables…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (435+ words) For one new solar panel owner, the honeymoon phase was in full swing. Two weeks after installing rooftop panels, the homeowner said they had entered a new phase that included compulsively tracking battery charge, power use, and solar generation. The…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (540+ words) A community-scale solar push is gaining momentum on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, with one organization reporting rapid expansion across rural communities. Global Sustainability says 28 solar systems are already operating, and it is aiming to bring that total to 100 across peninsula communities…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) Key details shaping how these pilots actually operate: Organizers are exploring whether it could eventually run desalination systems for brackish groundwater in the region Watermelon is reportedly thriving under the panels at the South Sinai site Data on crop performance,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (425+ words) New research estimates the devastating effects an extreme geomagnetic storm would have on the United States and how viable that threat is. A massive solar storm may sound like something out of science fiction, but new research suggests widespread blackouts,…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago   (412+ words) Tucson Electric Power says its latest battery project adds 400 megawatts of storage capacity that can feed electricity back to the grid within seconds when usage surges. As extreme summer heat and monsoon storms test the system, some customers are asking…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) California and Texas have led the charge on America's grid battery revolution. Now, a third state is racing to catch up: Arizona. The Grand Canyon State installed more battery capacity than every state besides Texas over the first half of…...