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Cuba Power Outage Solar

Why has Cuba’s solar power buildout been so slow?

<p>A google-backed solar project opened in Texas </p>

Large solar project opens in Texas, backed by Google

<p>Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential candidate senator JD Vance, appear during the Republican National Convention on Monday</p>

Climate activists alarmed by Trump’s ‘dangerous’ vice president pick

<p>Photovoltaic solar panels at the power plant in La Colle des Mees, Alpes de Haute Provence, southeastern France, on 17 April, 2019</p>

Solar panel achieves world record with ‘miracle material’

<p>A still from the CGI mockup of what a solar farm might look like in space </p>

Solar panel farms in space could give boundless clean energy supply

<p>MIT engineers created a supercapacitor made of ancient, abundant materials, that can store large amounts of energy</p>

Futuristic concrete could turn roads and homes into giant batteries

<p>Workers set up frameworks for a solar power project in Kubuqi desert in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region </p>

China transforms extreme frontier to energy hub

Japan aims to beam solar power from space by 2025

Climate Energy Investment

IEA: Shift to clean energy accelerating, but coal investments too high to meet climate goals

<p>Energy production from offshore windfarms hit record levels in 2022</p>

Renewable energy record signals ‘end to the fossil age’

<p>Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest solar thermal power station, in the Mojave Desert near Nipton, California on February 27, 2022</p>

Solar will make up more than half of new US grid power in 2023

<p>Scientists propose that shafts of abandoned mines could be repurposed to store vast amounts of energy in the form of gravity batteries</p>

Abandoned mines can store enough energy to power planet, study claims

Kevin Cottrell (left) and Eoin Aher, with the solar panes at The Old Oak, Cork (Darragh Kane/PA)

Solar-powered pub uses renewable energy to beat cost-of-living crisis

<p>Nearly a million UK homes have solar panels</p>

Is going off grid the answer to the energy crisis?

Biden

Report: Solar could power 40% of US electricity by 2035

Let’s invest in solar energy to help charge electric cars

TVA Coal Plants

Tennessee Valley Authority considers replacing coal with gas

The existing nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk

Investors ‘shun’ Sizewell C nuclear power station project

Solar made up 6 per cent of the UK's electricity in May

Solar made more power than coal in the UK for the first month ever