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2026-03-05 21:31:26 UTC

It's not just sheep that like solar over farmland - solar panels provide farmworkers shelter from the sun and reduces fatigue:
'A recent study in Colorado USA found that farmworkers can also benefit. It spoke to workers and took various physical heat stress metrics, finding that the panels can help farms avoid conditions conducive to dangerous heat stress.'
#solar #Energy #AgriPV #Agricu #agrivoltaics #agriculture
https://news.agu.org/press-release/solar-panels-over-crops-may-boost-farmworkers-comfort/
https://solarcene.community/system/media_attachments/files/116/178/629/872/615/957/original/8c6f8637a8c7a9a9.jpg

2026-01-10 10:45:27 UTC

#Solar #Coal #Energy #Australia
So while half the internet is screeching that renewables will leave us all sitting in the dark, Australia cops a 40c plus heat tsunami and guess what happens? Sweet FA. No grid collapse. No Mad Max blackout. No candles and baked beans. The system just… works.
And why? Because solar is doing the heavy lifting while the sun is trying to cook us like a sausage left on the barbie too long
This is the bit the coal huggers absolutely hate. (Continued)

2026-01-08 13:46:49 UTC

Well done Germany - it produced 18% of its electricity through solar power in 2025, up from 14% in 2024, a significant leap that meant solar overtook both coal and methane gas in the country's electrical supply (despite the high latitudes the whole country sits at):
https://electrek.co/2026/01/07/solar-overtakes-coal-and-gas-in-germany-a-country-with-little-sun/

2025-12-24 23:06:10 UTC

Currently every 3 years, China effectively builds a brand new total US grid’s worth of solar capacity, and that’s just solar!
#Energy #solar #PV #China #USA
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-chinas-renewables-rollout-boosts-its-war-on-sand/

2025-12-21 11:09:53 UTC

California winery runs all operations on floating and rooftop solar
A family-owned California winery has replaced grid electricity with onsite solar generation, reducing power costs and providing a live test site for floating photovoltaic
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/12/19/california-winery-runs-all-operations-on-floating-and-rooftop-solar/
#wine #winery #Solar #energy #pv #floatingpv

2025-11-03 03:01:44 UTC

Australian Renewables beat coal again
The share of renewables was 50.4 per cent, and beat coal (46.4 per cent) for the second month in a row
For utility PV, the best performing assets were the Merredin solar farm (38.3% CF) in Western Australia, and the Greenough River (35.4% CF), both in Western Australia, and the Moura solar farm (34.8% AC CF) in Queensland Greenough River was the country’s very first solar farm, but has since expanded
#solar #Energy #PV #Australia
https://reneweconomy.com.au/tasmania-wind-blows-hard-in-october-as-renewables-beat-coal-again-and-batteries-beat-pumped-hydro/

2025-10-27 19:44:51 UTC

European households pay triple for energy compared to China, with an average cost of 0.27 euros per kilowatt-hour
A new report says that the European Union could increase its installed solar capacity tenfold if it fully exploits the rooftops of homes, industries, and public buildings. This potential, estimated at more than a thousand gigawatts, would allow savings of up to 250 billion euros per year + drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels
#Europe #Solar #Energy
https://www.europesays.com/uk/530330/

2025-10-22 21:42:35 UTC

* France's last nuclear reactor attempt (Flamanville) started in 2007 and still is not completed (from 5 to now 18 years and counting) for just 1.65GW of generation capacity, and costs have blownout ~4 times (€3.3 billion to an estimated €13.2 billion)
* in less than 1 year France has also installed about 3 times as much as Flamanville - 4.2GW - of renewable generation, and costs were only about €3.5 billion
#Solar #energy #France
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/10/22/france-adds-4-2-gw-of-solar-in-first-nine-months-of-2025/

2025-09-21 09:29:11 UTC

Australia’s main grid hits new renewable record share of 77.9 per cent, driven by rooftop solar – the second time in 48 hours that the record has been broken.
Driven by large amounts of rooftop solar generation, which on this occasion accounted for more than 43 % of grid demand.
The share might have been higher but large amounts, five GW– of potential large scale wind and solar output was curtailed, mostly due to negative prices.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-main-grid-hits-new-renewable-record-share-of-77-9-per-cent-driven-by-rooftop-pv/
#solar #Energy #austraia #records
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2025-09-15 11:25:09 UTC

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Go back read previous toot or read articles at https://reneweconomy.com.au/
The answers are there.
Or go piss off if you want to be a contradictory negative nancy
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2025-09-15 03:35:19 UTC

New record
Australian Renewables generate 107% more electricity than needed
Basically this extra electricity was lost. However it shows the potential for storage (battery, pumped Hydro, compressed air etc) to allow shifting to night time
It reached a new peak of 10.21 GW, nearly 1.5 GW above the previous record that was set last September. The remarkable part is that is in itself more than electricity demand at the time, which hit a new low of 9.5 GW just after 1pm.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/remarkable-record-day-of-wind-and-solar-curtailment-as-renewables-surge-and-rooftop-pv-holds-sway/

2025-09-08 10:22:40 UTC

Renewable energy hit a new record high share of 76.4 per cent of electricity demand on Australia’s main grid on Monday, beating a record that had stood since last November
Renewables totalled 21,917 MW with rooftop solar providing more than half (12,532 MW or 43.%, wind providing 8,074 MW 30.6%, large scale solar 4,549 MW )15.9%, and hydro 616 MW, or 2.1%
Coal provided just 7,033 MW, or 24.5 %, gas providing a modest 207 MW 0.7%
#Solar #renewables #energy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-reach-new-record-high-of-76-4-pct-of-demand-on-australias-main-grid/

2025-05-19 09:11:06 UTC

The top solar nations might surprise you:
Netherlands leads per capita, Greece gets 28% of its power from solar, and Poland just hit #13 globally. It’s not just about big installs—it's about smart policy, rooftop adoption, and clean power share. The solar revolution is spreading globally fast! ☀️⚡
The Best Solar Power Countries... (🔗 cleantechnica.com)

2025-02-06 10:49:36 UTC

Growatt inverter recall.
#Solar #energy
https://www.productsafety.gov.au/search-consumer-product-recalls/solar-power-inverters-models-sph3000tl-bl-up-sph3600tl-bl-up-sph4000tl-bl-up-sph4600tl-bl-up-sph5000tl-bl-up-sph6000tl-bl-up

2024-11-18 10:18:28 UTC

Rooftop solar meets 107.5 pct of South Australia’s demand, no emergency measures needed
The rooftop solar peak on Sunday afternoon coincided with a fall in what the Australian Energy Market Operator describes as operational demand to minus (minus) 45 megawatts.
#solar #record #rooftopsolar #energy #SA #SouthAustralia
https://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-meets-107-5-pct-of-south-australias-demand-no-emergency-measures-needed/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=thesun

2024-11-14 10:25:11 UTC

Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe
Solar module prices reached a new low this week, says Leen van Bellen, business development manager Europe for Search4Solar, a European purchasing and selling platform for solar products. He tells pv magazine that prices will remain low in the short term.
“This is the first time the €0.06/W threshold was surpassed,” Leen Van
#records #solar #cleanenergy #europe #renewables
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/14/solar-modules-now-selling-for-less-than-e0-06-w-in-europe/

2024-11-04 10:31:25 UTC

France installed around 3.32 GW of new PV systems in the first nine months of 2024.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/01/france-deploys-1-35-gw-of-new-solar-in-q3/
#Solar #France #energy #cleanenergy
https://solarcene.community/system/media_attachments/files/113/424/218/226/781/824/original/fce19d1d275ffb16.jpg

2024-11-01 21:27:29 UTC

Records tumble as renewables hit new high and coal a new low in Australia
Renewables hit their highest ever instantaneous share - 75.3%
-coal hitting the lowest share of 23.9%
The records, for five minute trading, were set, with coal hitting its new nadir twice on Wednesday +Thursday, in the middle of the day when rooftop solar was exerting its consumer driven muscle
Rooftop solar alone was 51% of the grid.
#energy #solar #renewables #Auspol #cleanenergy #records.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/more-records-tumble-as-renewables-hit-new-high-and-coal-a-new-low/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=thesun

2024-10-29 15:07:21 UTC

Rooftop PV pushes grid demand and coal output to new low.
Rooftop solar alone, jumped to a new record 54.6%, up from 53.2%, at around the same time across the NEM, and to a new peak of 58.9%, up from 55.7%, in NSW
This pushed operational demand and coal output on Australia’s main grid + biggest state, to new record lows as the spring season continues to refashion the shape of Australia’s electricity system
#Auspol #NSW #records #Energy #Solar #Rooftopsolar #Solarpunk
https://reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-pv-pushes-grid-demand-and-coal-output-to-new-lows-as-nsw-gets-ready-for-solar-switch-off/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=thesun

2024-10-07 10:51:52 UTC

The ABC Four Corners having a go at Duttons nuclear ambitions. Rather than calling it the bullshit it is, they spent half the time giving the idea oxygen. Even handed bullshit.
#fourcorners #myabc #Auspol #australia

2024-10-07 05:26:33 UTC

Solar panels are getting put everywhere!!!
Swiss pilot to install solar panels in-between railway tracks
A Swiss startup received permission from local authorities to build an 18kW, 100-metre-long removable solar PV plant between railway tracks in the country’s west
The pilot project will consist of 48 solar panels of 380W. Sun-Ways expects the solar plant will generate around 16,000kWh of clean power each year.
#Rail #trains #railway #Solar #PV #energy #cleanenergy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/swiss-pilot-to-install-solar-panels-in-between-railway-tracks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=thesun

2024-08-20 02:00:41 UTC

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Our local shopping centre got a little bit over 100 car spots covered by solar back in 2020.
Great to keep the car cool on Sunny days, but also makes visiting on rainy days so much better. No more trying to get the groceries in the boot holding a umbrella.Also came with a better pedestrian layout, which improved safety in carpark.
The company that owns the shopping centre and about 170 others has been rolling them out to their other properties to reduce tenant costs.