China’s investment in renewable energy pays off

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnyAamblSo

The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world

Alison Reeve, the energy and climate change programme director at the Grattan Institute thinktank, says it neatly illustrates how the energy system has been rewritten, almost overnight. Under the new model, households are producers and players in the market, not just consumers. Older forms of generation are increasingly being squeezed out. And the advent of batteries with longer durations means past criticisms of solar energy – that the sun doesn’t shine at night – is being “blown out of the water”...

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/may/31/cheaper-energy-bills-battery-revolution-climate-crisis

 

Solar booms in industrial US midwest as energy crisis persists

Electricity has become one of the most important commodities in the region thanks to demand from datacenters, Iran war and rising utility charges…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/02/solar-midwest-energy-crisis

 

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08/britain-breaks-solar-energy-record-twice-uk-biggest-solar-farm-springwell-approval

 

Solar power’s newest friends: MAGA influencers - POLITICO

Miller, a former aide to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has been relentlessly touting solar power on social media this month, posting "Solar energy is the energy of the future" and noting "Solar is now the dominant source of new U.S. power capacity and is on track to surpass coal in total installed capacity before the end of 2026."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/solar-powers-newest-friends-maga-influencers-00802954 

 

Utah Leaders Hinder Solar Efforts Despite Need for More Energy — ProPublica

Cox signed a pair of bills passed this year that will make it more difficult and expensive to develop and produce solar energy in Utah by ending solar development tax credits and imposing a hefty new tax on solar generation. A third bill aimed at limiting solar development on farmland narrowly missed the deadline for passage but is expected to return next year...

https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox 

 

Law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US

"The federal administration has been so negative to clean energy that people have thought 'OK what can we do at the state level?' and this has been one of those things. 

"There's real momentum behind this now. In states where electricity is more expensive, in particular, I think we will see market forces really carry this far."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/30/balcony-solar-power-states-laws

 

No, wind and solar power aren’t ‘worthless’ when there’s no wind or sun

"We now have increasingly widespread and affordable battery storage at the home and the utility scale," said Christopher R. Knittel, professor of energy economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. "That allows renewable energy produced during the day to be stored and used at night or during demand spikes." 

 Storage of wind and solar power is "commonly done in California and Texas today, among other locations," Borenstein said, contributing "significantly" to the electricity supply...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/sep/09/us-energy-department/energy-wind-solar-power-electricity-federal/

 

California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power

Farmers who owned their own arrays had to pay for the panels, equipment and installation, and maintenance. But even after covering those costs, their savings and earnings added up to US$50,000 per acre of profits every year, 25 times the amount they would have earned by planting that acre...

https://theconversation.com/california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power-259653 

 

China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power | China | The Guardian

Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-more-records-with-massive-build-up-of-wind-and-solar-power 

 

Insight: Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters | Reuters

"That effectively means there is a built-in way to physically destroy the grid," one of the people said,..

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14/

The Overlooked Solar Power Potential of U.S. Parking Lots | Time

It's approximately 450% more than the U.S.'s current solar power capacity of 74.9 GW. Adding all that parking solar power would also account for nearly a half of the government's maximum 2035 solar goal of 1,000 GW, without eating up any land that could be used for agriculture, wildlife, or housing…

https://time.com/6239651/solar-parking-lots-france-us/

Solidarity Through Solar: A City’s Quest for 100% Clean Energy (Union of Concerned Scientists; Got Science? podcast episode #123)

Energy justice advocate Gracie Wooten and energy analyst James Gignac discuss how science can help a Detroit-area community achieve energy sovereignty by generating and sharing its own electricity.

Interview: 

https://soundcloud.com/gotscience/ep-123-solidarity-through-solar-a-towns-quest-for-100-clean-energy

Got Science? · Ep. 123: Solidarity Through Solar: A City’s Quest for 100% Clean Energy

Students’ solar-powered camper van turns heads on 1,800-mile road trip

Dutch team designed and built two-person van with kitchen, bed, shower, loo and range of up to 450 miles a day…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/15/students-solar-powered-camper-van-turns-heads-on-1800-mile-road-trip

The Hidden Costs of Solar Power No One Talks About

When people ask about solar power, they usually just want to talk about how much the need for panels, amd how much does it cost to install. What happens after you get it up and going? No one talks about the hidden costs of solar after the installation.
https://youtu.be/-km13gR2kJo

Solar and EV discussion with Darrel Henschell (The Phil Ferguson Show podcast #357)

Conversation with Darrel Henschell. We discuss home solar panels and how they work. We also discuss Electric cars (PHEV and BEV).

Interview:

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-8nfpy-d610225

The U.S. Should Shift From the Nuclear Issue to Re-engage Iran | Opinion

... How can the U.S. regain the support of its allies and rebuild consensus with Iran to not only resolve the nuclear issue but also form new ground for overcoming common future challenges? It's perhaps time to take a pause from the prevalent nuclear dispute and instead direct focus on joining forces to combat the globally critical and economically detrimental shared threat of climate change...

https://www.newsweek.com/us-should-shift-nuclear-issue-re-engage-iran-opinion-1564659

8 Surprising Facts About Solar Power | NowThis

Yes, solar power still works when the sun isn’t out — and 7 more facts that might surprise you about this renewable energy source.
https://youtu.be/7OMp1LtHO6A

Americans really want the US to adopt renewable energy like wind and solar power, while rejecting fossil fuels like coal - Business Insider

A new Insider poll found that a large majority of Americans strongly favor cleaner sources of energy over fossil fuels - and it's a belief that transcends party lines. The data shows that both self-identified Democrats and Republicans support the idea of the nation transitioning towards renewable sources of energy. ....
https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-really-want-the-us-adopt-renewable-energy-sources-2019-10

Tesla Solar Roof: 9 Things You Don't Realize Until You Own One for a Year - Inverse

Amanda Tobler is possibly the world's most extreme early tech adopter. A year ago, she agreed to let Tesla replace the roof of her house in San Jose, California, with solar-harvesting energy tiles. One year into the Tesla Solar roof life, she says, "We have no regrets."...
https://www.inverse.com/article/56754-tesla-solar-roof-9-things-you-don-t-realize-until-you-own-one-for-a-year