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Germany achieved a historic milestone in July 2026, feeding 12 billion kWh of solar electricity into the public grid in a single month, according to IWR analysis. The article also explains the EEG differential cost mechanism and the role of legacy installations.
In May 2026, Utah produced more power from solar than any other source for the first time, as wind and solar generation surge despite federal clean energy incentive cuts.
Gritt, a startup using AI-controlled robots to install solar panels, exited stealth with $34 million in funding to accelerate solar plant construction.
The US FCC has approved Reflect Orbital's Eärendil-1 mirror satellite, which will reflect sunlight to Earth at night for solar energy and other uses, sparking criticism from astronomers and environmental advocates over light pollution.
Sunrun launches a pilot program where customers host AI compute nodes in their homes, paid for their participation, creating a distributed compute network for AI companies.
A tweet highlights the massive scale of China's solar electricity projects, noting their importance for AI scaling due to energy and supply chain advantages.
A discussion of the idea that placing AI compute in space could solve energy problems, leveraging solar power without atmospheric interference, and citing SpaceX's potential to launch massive compute capacity.
Nairobi entrepreneurs are adopting solar-powered grain mills to reduce costs and emissions. The article highlights Agsol's solar mill used by shop owner Milcah Wanjiru, which is cheaper than diesel and allows small batches.
For the first time, solar power generated more electricity in the US than coal in May, marking a milestone in the country's energy transition. The milestone underscores solar's growth despite federal policies favoring coal, with solar and battery storage now dominating new power generation.
Helios is a web tool that estimates the potential plug-in solar generation for any address in Britain, helping users assess if it's worth installing.
In the first quarter of 2026, US solar and hydroelectric growth pushed coal off the grid, with solar output up 24% and overall renewable growth outpacing demand, leading to a 10% drop in coal use.
This paper presents a case study using an LLM-driven tree search algorithm (ERA) combined with a coding agent (AntiGravity) to autonomously generate high-efficiency three-dimensional photovoltaic structures, overcoming limitations of flat solar panels at mid-latitudes. The workflow includes iterative patching to eliminate reward hacking and discovers improved designs under various constraints.
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a pyrimidone-based molecule that absorbs sunlight, stores energy in chemical bonds, and releases heat on demand, achieving an energy density of 1.6 MJ/kg and demonstrating the ability to boil water, offering a promising approach for long-term solar energy storage.
Research shows that sulfur dioxide aerosols from coal burning reduce solar power production by up to 7.7% in regions with high coal usage, offsetting growth in countries like China. The study highlights an additional incentive to transition away from coal.
China has massively scaled solar deployment, converting parking lots and rooftops into power plants, and achieved its 1.2 TW wind and solar goal in 2024, six years ahead of the 2030 target.
A PNAS study finds that converting just 3.2 % of US corn-for-ethanol farmland to solar could match all current corn ethanol energy output, as solar is 31× more land-efficient.
Version 2 of the GM-SEUS open dataset now maps 3.4 million U.S. solar panels plus new rooftop arrays, up from 2.9 million in v1.
IEA reports 2025 saw the largest single-year global generation increase ever recorded, with solar PV covering over two-thirds of new electricity demand growth and batteries adding 110 GW of capacity.