Tag: solar

• 4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment | The New Yorker

  July 20, 2025

  In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system, Bill McKibben writes. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment#:~:text=Globally%2C%20roughly%20a%20third%20more,in%20a%20very%20different%20world more ›

• Solar Power’s Giants Are Providing More Energy Than Big Oil

  June 16, 2024

  You’ve heard of Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Shell Plc, BP Plc, TotalEnergies Se, ConocoPhillips and Eni SpA? How about Tongwei Co., GCL Technology Holdings Ltd., Xinte Energy Co., Longi… more ›

• Solar energy can now be stored for up to 18 years, say scientists

  February 25, 2024

  Solar-powered electronics are one step closer to becoming an everyday part of our lives thanks to a “radical” new scientific breakthrough. https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/04/12/solar-energy-can-now-be-stored-for-up-to-18-years-say-scientists more ›

• Researchers achieve breakthrough in solar technology: ‘A radically new way of generating electricity from solar energy’

  February 25, 2024

  Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenberg, Sweden, have succeeded in creating a system that can capture and store solar energy for up to 18 years and can produce… more ›

• Renewable energy defies Covid-19 to hit record growth in 2020

  November 10, 2020

  Global renewable electricity installation will hit a record level in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency, in sharp contrast with the declines caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the fossil… more ›