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A team of scientists at ETH Zurich has come up with a new photovoltaic ceramic known to transform the solar energy market.

1,000 times more powerful than solar panels: This ceramics breaks the laws of physics

Photovoltaic energy has established itself as the most powerful source, even taking space away from the dreaded nuclear power. However, there is still a challenge ahead, and that is to make way for a new generation of solar panels that produce more electricity (i.e., have higher efficiency). A group of experts has succeeded in creating the first photovoltaic ceramics, with unprecedented potential and an unsolved problem: it defies the laws of physics with an incredibly small size.

Why do we use solar panels? ETH Zurich has introduced the latest photovoltaics invention

A team of scientists at ETH Zurich has come up with a new photovoltaic ceramic known to transform the solar energy market. This concept of breaking through ceramic tile is “amazingly”, one thousand times more effective than the current photovoltaic silicon-based solar panels.

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Source: Eco News

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Olympic Champion and Team Panasonic Brand Ambassador Michael Phelps embraces solar at home with Panasonic EVERVOLT Total Home System.

Check out Michael Phelps’ massive home solar + battery system

Panasonic had a line at its booth that wrapped around the tradeshow floor at RE+ 2023. The reason was high-profile Panasonic brand ambassador and Olympic champion Michael Phelps was hanging out and taking photos. With the Summer Olympics and another RE+ around the corner, Phelps is showcasing Panasonic in an even bigger way: a Panasonic EVERVOLT system designed to power his Arizona home on solar energy using 90 solar panels and 4 battery units.

This massive PV + storage system will reduce the overall home energy usage by up to 70% and provide back-up battery storage.

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Source: Solar Builder

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Bifacial solar panels and other crop-friendly technologies are expanding the field of opportunities for agrivoltaic development.

Peaches, grapes, & the agrivoltaic farm of the future

The emerging field of agrivoltaics has come a long way in just a few years. From a focus on pollinator habitats and grazing lands, agrivoltaic stakeholders are expanding their ambitions to raise peaches, grapes, and other crops within arrays of ground-mounted solar panels. Whether or not that blows up the whole argument against rural solar development remains to be seen, but the alliance between farmers and solar stakeholders could swing the balance and help accelerate the renewable energy transition.

The Agrivoltaic Revolution Is Coming

The agrivoltaic movement goes hand in hand with the falling cost of solar panels. Solar technology was relatively expensive in the early 2000s. To cut maintenance costs, rural solar developers put down gravel and other no-mow solutions for groundcover under the panels. Raising crops was definitely out of the picture.

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Source: Clean Technica

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Solar power units will be installed at 130 primary healthcare facilities in Ukraine, allowing them to significantly reduce electricity costs.

Solar panels to power 130 healthcare facilities in Ukraine

Solar power generation units will be deployed at 130 primary medical care facilities across Ukraine.

This was reported by the Ministry of Health, Ukrinform saw.

It is noted that equipment will be purchased and installed within the framework of the joint project run by the Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and the World Bank “Health Enhancement and Lifesaving, HEAL”.

“Regular enemy attacks on civil infrastructure endanger the full-fledged operation of our healthcare system. That is why we are working to provide medical facilities with opportunities for maximum autonomous work, so that patients can receive all the necessary medical care without interruption and in full. Modern technology allows for strengthening our energy security, including through installing solar power units,” said Minister of Health Viktor Liashko.

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Source: UKRINFORM

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URB is slated to construct and open the world’s greenest highway in Dubai, UAE, expected to have 100% renewable energy sources

URB to build world’s greenest highway in Dubai with solar-powered trams and urban farms

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URB is slated to construct and open the world’s greenest highway in Dubai, UAE named ‘Green Spine’. The project, which is in line with the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan, is expected to have 100 percent renewable energy sources to power its infrastructure, mainly solar energy. Electric trams may run over railways cladded in solar panels, and urban farms and gardens surround the highway where people can grow their own food and plants.

The Dubai-based developer says the Green Spine extends for 64 kilometers along Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road (E311). Nearly eight million residents may benefit from the project, which aims to promote non-motorized transport and reduce the carbon footprint around the city. URB designs the Dubai Green Spine project. They have previously worked on the Dubai Reefs Project, Dubai Mangroves, and The Loop in Dubai.

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Source: Design Boom

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Installing solar panels over fish farms can help boost seafood harvests by 50% while generating huge amounts of pollution-free electricity.

Experts discover game-changing benefit of installing solar panels at aquaculture farms: ‘A win-win solution’

Installing solar panels over fish farms can help boost seafood harvests by 50% while generating huge amounts of pollution-free electricity, according to a new study out of China.

As the World Resources Institute detailed, this is an exciting example of how solar energy can help us create a cleaner, healthier future that benefits both people and the planet.

The study looked at an aquaculture site near the mouth of the Yellow River in China’s Shandong Province. In 2021, solar panels were installed several meters above the water to generate clean energy. The results have been astonishing.

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Source: yahoo!news

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Customers can save money on their electric bills by using community solar rather than installing their own array.

Community solar expands access to clean energy, new study shows

The sun showers us all with energy, but not everyone can put solar panels on their roofs to harness it for themselves. Enter community solar, an increasingly popular way to expand access to solar and help fix its equity issues. For the first time, evidence shows that it’s working.

Community solar allows customers to reap electric bill savings by subscribing to a share of a local solar project, rather than installing their own array. It’s an arrangement that ideally makes the benefits of solar more accessible to people who live in rental or multifamily housing and those who just can’t afford the upfront cost of rooftop systems. Forty-two states have community solar projects in place — but the precise nature of who has benefited remained unclear. Until now.

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Source: Canary Media

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Low-cost, clean power, resilience and energy security are all part of the great American success story that is solar energy.

The Pentagon’s plan to go solar: another chapter in a great American success story

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin can’t run for reelection, so it’s frustrating to see him spending so much time trying to score political points. The latest episode came earlier this month, when according to Fox News, Youngkin sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin questioning the Pentagon’s plan, announced back in January, to install solar panels on the building’s massive roof. Youngkin complained that the plan included no requirements for American-made technology, raising the question “whether American taxpayer dollars will be used to purchase solar equipment from the Chinese Communist Party.”

A few days later, Fox News reported the Pentagon offered reassurance that it had a “rigorous and extensive oversight process to ensure compliance” with the Buy American Act and other laws requiring domestic content.

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Source: Virginia Mercury

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For part of almost every day this spring, California produced more electricity than it needed from renewable sources.

California is showing how a big state can power itself without fossil fuels

Something approaching a miracle has been taking place in California this spring. Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower has been producing more than a hundred per cent of the state’s demand for electricity. Some afternoons, solar panels alone have produced more power than the state uses. And, at night, large utility-scale batteries that have been installed during the past few years are often the single largest source of supply to the grid—sending the excess power stored up during the afternoon back out to consumers across the state. It’s taken years of construction—and solid political leadership in Sacramento—to slowly build this wave, but all of a sudden it’s cresting into view. California has the fifth-largest economy in the world and, in the course of a few months, the state has proved that it’s possible to run a thriving modern economy on clean energy.

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Source: The New Yorker

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Amsterdam will make installing solar panels and heat pumps easier and allow visible installations on monuments and heritage buildings.

Amsterdam to allow solar panels on monuments

The city of Amsterdam is to permit the installation of solar panels on monuments and buildings in protected cityscapes. The decision is part of the city’s Sustainable Heritage Implementation Agenda, which is designed to bring historic buildings in Amsterdam in line with modern sustainability targets.

The new measures will come into force by 2025. The city also plans to ease solar panel and heat pump installations through permit-free work or an accelerated permit procedure.

The rules will allow solar panels in full view and permit air heat pumps on roofs. Other planned regulations include insulating 123,000 homes by the end of the decade and allowing greenery on the roofs and facades of some monuments.

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Source: PV Magazine

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