Oct 21, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Smartgrids, Solar
On October 1, China connected a solar plant that keeps generating after the sun goes down. The 1 GW project at Talatan, in Qinghai, pairs 900 MW of ordinary photovoltaics with a 100 MW tower that stores eight hours of heat in molten salt, and PowerChina expects it to...
Oct 10, 2026 | Home Electrification, Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
Pakistan’s rooftop-solar boom gets told as a miracle. It is better read as the sound of a grid failing. In two years, households, farms and factories bolted an estimated 27 to 38 gigawatts of panels onto their own roofs — against roughly 6 GW the state actually...
Sep 28, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
From October 1, every new solar panel sold in Alberta carries a flat C$14 environmental fee, and sending a dead panel to landfill becomes illegal. It is the first stewardship scheme of its kind in Canada, and the industry that lobbied for years to be taken seriously...
Sep 22, 2026 | Policy & Regulations, Renewable Energy, Solar
The United States has now built 100 gigawatts of solar modules over its history, and more than 70% of that total was assembled after the Inflation Reduction Act passed in late 2022. It is a genuine industrial turnaround. It is also a milestone measured at the one step...
Sep 20, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Solar
Researchers at Nanjing University pushed a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell to a certified 26.88% efficiency — 27.35% before independent verification — a world record for the design, published in Joule in September 2026. It is a real milestone. It is also the...
Sep 18, 2026 | Renewable Energy, Solar
A land equivalent ratio, or LER, measures whether doing two things on one piece of land beats doing each on its own. In agrivoltaics — solar panels raised over a working field — an LER of 1.6 means you would need 1.6 hectares of single-use land, one growing the crop...
