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This Australian state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables | New Scientist
May 23
EcoPower Mate: A Mobile Solar System Built for Remote Worksites – pv magazine International
Octopus Energy offers free electricity to 8 million customers to reduce wind farm waste ‘We’re buzzing’: Octopus Energy is giving away more free electricity to its 8 million customers — and it could stop the UK wasting £1.5 billion to shut down wind farms
How the Sahara Desert could power the world: The green energy revolution | Watch I uncovered why solar in the Sahara failed ? | Watch
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-13/europe-solar-power-wasted-as-electricity-grids-fail-to-handle-surge?embedded-checkout=true
U.S. solar energy firm plans $750 million power grid expansion across four African countries | Business Insider Africa
Curtailment, negative prices push Greek small- and medium-sized PV asset owners toward bankruptcy
May 14
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/07/curtailment-negative-prices-push-greek-small-and-medium-sized-pv-owners-toward-bankruptcy/ use the negative prices to make hydrogen, methanol, petrol and buy some batteries behind the meter to take part in the energy market in the evening when the prices normalise, this is an opportunity, crazy that it’s being missed.
Trump may not be a fan of clean energy but Iran war is accelerating global shift from oil and gas | Heather Stewart | The Guardian
Spain, France, Portugal: Renewables race heats up as governments scramble to keep energy bills down
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/14/how-to-generate-hydrogen-at-home-with-recycled-solar-panels/
Solar Power + Energy Storage Transform Church Into Resilience Hub
Translated from German Our BMW i3 is now 9 years old and broke through the 150,000 km mark this week. At the turn of the year, we had an Aviloo battery check done. SoH 84% In everyday use, we had 270 km on the range display in the summer of 2017. In 2025, it was […]
Translated from German Tesla battery from a Model 3 as a home storage system? It works! A total of 79kWh! Charged with 11kW solar power. A really great example of how batteries from electric vehicles don’t just reach the end of the line after use in the car, but can get a second life as […]
Rio Tinto mine taps solar power in South Africa as energy crisis deepens | Business Insider Africa
Apr 16
Rio Tinto mine taps solar power in South Africa as energy crisis deepens | Business Insider Africa
Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar
https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/03/balcony-solar-is-here-and-its-not-just-for-balconies
https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-a-solar-canopy-5192784
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/30/multi-year-field-study-suggest-that-agrivoltaics-can-support-healthy-potato-yields/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/31/solar-above-60-north-the-arctic-as-pvs-next-frontier/
https://electrek.co/2026/03/17/evs-wiped-out-oil-demand-equal-to-70-of-irans-exports-in-2025/