After allegations that a little-known Chinese company at the center of the solar energy supply chain used forced labor in the Xinjiang area, the United States imposed sanctions on commerce with the firm around a year ago. Consequences arose quickly and stuck around, with strained relations between the two countries and widespread turmoil in the […]

When pigeons decided to build nests underneath solar panels in Nottingham, it cost the city council over £350,000 to remove the nests and replace the panels. As part of its plan to make the city carbon neutral by 2028, the authority has installed thousands of solar panels on residents’ roofs. However, there have been over

As electricity costs continue to rise, a solar power company has seen unprecedented demand from farms. MyPower, located in the Cotswolds, increased its annual panel installation rate from 7,000 to 27,000. According to the company’s managing director Ben Harrison, energy price rises are the reason for the meteoric rise in sales. As electricity costs continue

As the demand for solar power soars, we’re well into the energy shift. Bloomberg’s senior renewable energy analyst, Rob Barnett, predicted worldwide solar capacity installations will expand by 30 percent this year and continue to grow at a double-digit rate through 2023 and 2025. Astonishing is an understatement when it comes to the global solar

Barcelona has teamed up with a secondary school and a residents’ association to build a solar energy community that can spread across broad portions of the city, rooftop by rooftop. Rooftop solar panels at Poblenou’s Quatre Cantons Secondary School provide electricity to the school and 30 nearby families. For every 500 watts of electricity used,

“Floating solar parks” are being developed in the North Sea. German energy company RWE has agreed to invest in a trial project focusing on the deployment of floating solar technology in the region. The Merganser pilot, located off the coast of Ostend, Belgium, has a peak power output of 0.5 megawatts, or MWp. RWE announced

The first Jersey ground-mounted solar farm’s plans have been made public. St Clement fields, Jersey Electricity’s 12-acre location, is part of a sequence of similar initiatives. Within a few years, there will be a succession of ground-based solar developments “strategically situated” in “carefully selected” locations. Power for 1,500 houses a year was claimed by the