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Solar power

December 2024

  • A woman stands on a balcony that had a black panel attached to the side

    The alternatives
    ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

  • Turbines at a large onshore windfarmin Pen y Cymoedd, Wales.

    Miliband pledges no blackouts under Labour’s ‘unstoppable’ renewable energy shake-up

  • onshore wind turbines

    Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’

  • Leonie Hamilton, secretary of No Offshore Turbines Port Stephens

    How anger at Australia’s rollout of renewables is being hijacked by a new pro-nuclear network

  • UK ‘needs to play catch-up’ in global race to rewire electricity grids

  • Your smoke detector may be at risk if solar power is turned off during sunny days to protect the grid, experts say

  • South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and NSW could experience blackouts from too much solar power, Aemo warns

November 2024

  • Man fixing solar panels

    Change by degrees
    My solar panels are faulty. Can I repair them or is it time for new ones?

  • A rendering of how the solar and battery farm in Horsham may look. It is expected to generate 242,000MW hours of renewable energy a year once complete in 2027

    Victoria to build $370m state-owned solar farm and battery in state’s west

  • Solar panels on a tidal flat in Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, China

    Trump tariffs are coming, but some Chinese companies may already know how to avoid them

  • Peter Lewis

    The Guardian Essential report
    Let’s not waste another summer debating climate science – Australia’s energy transition can work for everyone

    Peter Lewis

  • Making homes greener isn’t nanny-statism

  • Trump promise to repeal Biden climate policies could cost US billions, report finds

  • Temperature Check
    Dick Smith’s ABC radio rant against renewables overflows with ill-informed claims

    Graham Readfearn

  • What will the UK’s plan for clean energy by 2030 mean for the industry and public?

  • Gridlock: why it can take 11 years to connect solar farms to the UK network

  • Silver lining? Why an Australian startup is betting on a copper solar boom

October 2024

  • People sit outdoors watching TV while others cook on a fire

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages

    Their fuel resources have long been plundered by others, while national grids have failed to connect them. Now, solar panels could give more than electricity to Indigenous people
  • trees near an electricity pylon

    US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years

    Pace of growth helps maintain renewable energy when weather conditions interfere with wind and solar
  • A housing estate of detached houses with solar panels

    Solar panels for new homes may just be optional after pressure on Labour from housebuilders

    Long-delayed regulations for England may ‘encourage’ housebuilders to equip homes with solar panels, rather than requiring them
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