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This Engineer’s Solar Panels Are Breaking Efficiency Records

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The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity company. It sounded like magic: useful and valuable electricity extracted from simple sunlight.

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Global solar growth is on track for another record-breaking year

Baua Electric

Photo: CGTN Global solar installations are set to beat most industry forecasts, with 593 gigawatts (GW) expected to be added by the end of 2024, according to a new report by energy think tank Ember. Strong growth in established markets is combining with rapid acceleration elsewhere to make solar additions higher than ever before.

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Here’s how the Fed’s rate cut helps homeowners go solar

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Photo by Cindy Shebley on Pexels.com The Federal Reserve cut interest rates yesterday, and while it’s meant to support the broader economy, here’s how it helps homeowners go solar. But now, the Fed’s September rate cut – combined with dropping installation costs – makes going solar even more attractive.

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TARUN MEHTA, CEO AT ATHER ENERGY AND HONOURABLE PM MODI MEETS AT AN EVENT IN BENGALURU

Electric Vehicles India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday evening met with noted personalities at Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru to discuss various issues. Tarun Mehta Co-founder & CEO at Ather Energy was invited to attend this event. It manufactures two electric scooters – the Ather 450 X and the Ather 450 Plus. metric tonnes of CO2 emissions.

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The US’s largest co-located solar + battery storage project is online

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Photo: Primergy The Gemini Solar + Storage project in Nevada – the US’s largest co-located solar + battery energy storage system – is now operational. The enormous 690-megawatt (MW) project, which Primergy Solar and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners developed, features 1.8 million bifacial solar panels. Get started here.

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US solar and wind growth defies expectations – a decade in numbers

Baua Electric

Photo: Primergy The latest US EIA and FERC data reflect a decade of explosive solar and wind growth – here’s how it breaks down. The SUN DAY Campaign reviewed EIA’s latest monthly “ Electric Power Monthly ” report (with electrical generation data through June 30, 2024) and compared it to EIA’s data for June 30, 2019 and for June 30, 2014.

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The world’s largest solar farm just came online in China

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Photo: CGTN The world’s largest solar farm, in the desert in northwestern Xinjiang, is now connected to China’s grid. The 5-gigawatt (GW), 200,000-acre solar farm is outside Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital. The solar farm will generate about 6.09 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity annually. billion kWh could power 2.03

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