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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Does anyone have a chatty contact in/at the Blind Creek Solar Farm? I would love to know what the various shapes, colours and reflections that I see from 5km away mean. Last update (blindcreeksolarfarm.com.au/project-…) was for July, and things have been rollicking along since […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Knowing how electricity is normally generated makes these things even more magical Like we all know that electricity is made by moving magnets around coils of wire or vice versa, and that's how I think of electricity, it's a big steel shaft in some really good bearings and at the end of that […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Australia's main grid reached a new instantaneous record of over 80% renewables. Including more than 50% rooftop solar The record might have been a lot higher: More than one half of available wind output was being curtailed and nearly half of large scale output was being curtailed The […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

In the last quarter, Australia has built the equivalent of 2.5 huge solar farms on their rooftops 1 GW of new installs over just three months reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-solar-r… #Solar #Energy #PV […]

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CelloMom On Cars @cellomomoncars.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

New Jersey ☀️ New Jersey now allows qualifying plug-in solar panels under 1,200 watts without utility approval. 💰 Gov. Mikie Sherrill says the systems could cut typical electric bills by up to $50 a month. 🏠 Landlords, HOAs and towns can no longer ban or require permits for qualifying balcony […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The new clean world of renewables - South Australia has powered itself from rooftop solar alone from 13:20-13:50 today (30 Aug 2026). This is the 19th day SA has achieved this and is the earliest this has happened (70 days from winter solstice). Next best is 23 Sep 2023 (93 days),This excludes […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

China has launched the world’s first 100-kilowatt (kW) floating solar farm built with bamboo frames, offering a more environmentally friendly approach to offshore energy. The floating solar platform, named Jilin-2, is made of composite bamboo tubes and pipes. It has been deployed at a […]

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Jiří Eischmann @sesivany.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

This is the first solar panel installation in #Greece I've seen. This one is still WIP. Stable sunny weather and still no interest in solar electricity here (there are many solar water heaters though). Not even large businesses like the hotel resorts where […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

A picture of a box of Jinko solar panels on a roof. There are already holders for solar panels installed on the roof behind the box.

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Good news, the reboot of the sun has been successful. Please bear with us for the next 90 minutes or so as illumination returns to full power.

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

With no land to spare, Wannon Water took solar to the water and cut pump energy costs by up to 40 per cent At Brierly Basin in Victoria’s south-west, Wannon Water faced a conundrum: how to reduce the energy consumption of several 100 kW pump systems moving 10 megalitres per day to the […]

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 05/08/2026

There is no evidence in either pricing or deployment data that solar or batteries will slow anytime soon. As our Future Smart global growth model shows, the logical question is not to ask why is the transition so fast, but to ask: why on earth would it slow? bsky.app/profile/prof...

Global growth rate of energy sources
Solar the fastest generation source growth in history
Wind about same speed as nuclear - but it has kept growing
Battery dispatch growth is faster

Updated price curve on solar price versus volume
and battery price versus volume

@fss_au global electricity model to 2025, and projected growth to 2035
Solar shows increasing growth at lest until 2032, and then just grows more slowly, while batteries are unlikely to slow before 2035

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

#Australia The cost of installing solar at schools, supermarkets, factories and farm buildings will be slashed by about 20 per cent under the expansion of a federal government scheme. The expansion of the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) from 100 kilowatts to one megawatt. The […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Over 95% of those without a grid connection live in rural areas close to the equator. ✅ A single solar panel and a small battery can give a family 1 kWh per day, even in the rainy season. That's enough to power phones, lights, refrigeration and a fan. ✅ Adding two more solar panels (but not […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I’m old enough to have grown up with candles in the dining room cupboards for the power cuts. Now I have solar panels on my roof, and a battery in my loft. 🤷‍♀️

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

"New Zealand's installed rooftop solar capacity reached 573 megawatts by the end of 2024." theconversation.com/nz-parties-want… Well that's good news. For comparison, the maximum output of a fully operational […]

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swisslet @swisslet.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

We’ve had these #solar panels online for ten days and we’ve apparently already saved the equivalent of 20kg of coal with a 150kg reduction in CO2 being released into the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to planting 8 trees, apparently. Sure, it’s saving us money, but it’s the green impact that’s […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

You might think the railways are lots of space, so this just scales great and we can have oodles of power. Let's rake a hypothetical 100km stretch of track, and fill it with a continuous string of 1m wide panels. That gives us an area of: 100000m². At 200w/m² output, that's 20MW! Loads! Except […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

And while there are some countries that run their trains on low voltages (1500VDC in .NL, 3000VDC in .BE). Most overhead electrified lines use either 15KV AC at 16 ⅔hz, or 25KV AC. Taking your tiny 100m² 18KW solar install and trying to make any of those voltages and feed it to the trains is […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

At such low voltages, voltage drop over that sort of distance is going to mean quite an efficiency bit. Unless you use really thick cable. Which is expensive. Or run things at a much higher voltage (now you have extra risk assessment concerns) It's probably a good time to dispell perhaps one of […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Any half competent installer would spot this and recommend against such an idea. But then such people aren't trying to get VC funding. The next suboptimal part of this setup is one of wire lengths. By it's nature, a solar install in between railway tracks is long and thin. The news article says […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Partial shading of panels is a big problem that is often overlooked by solar installers. Any shading of a section of a panel not only stops they bit of the panel generating electricity, but it turns it into a higher resistance section of panel, reducing even further the output of the rest of the […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Railways also come with a lot of extra gubbins beyond the two rails nailed to wood planks (or more often bolted to concrete these days). In more modern networks, rather than burning dinosaurs, the railways have power which comes from all that knitting above the tracks. The above here is the […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

If you ever look at the area of track between the rails. You'll see it's covered in all sorts of crap. Oil, lubricants, and all sorts of other fluids fall out the bottom of trains into this space, along with dust, sand (from brakes), leaves, litter, etc... This will all need to be cleaned off to […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Unfortunately because it hasn't resulted in fire and death, the company behind it are trying to do it again. This time in Italy. www.euronews.com/2026/07/05/italy-c… The problem is, it's still a fucking […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Ye fucking gods, just like how techbros keep reinventing the bus, it seems in solar circles, the idea of putting solar panels in transport surfaces is an idea that a) should never had be got off the fag packet sketch, b) keeps coming back. We had the trial of a 100m long 18KW install in […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Now if we took say the original 100m² demo array, and instead of putting it in a safety critical location with all sorts of risk headaches. And we made it into a single 10m x 10m square. Our longest cable run becomes about 14m, we can build it say, over the station carpark, which also reduces […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

"yeah, but that's the tiny install, what about that 20MW 100ha install you talked about?, that's bigger than your station carpark!!" Yep. So let's use the local supermarket roof... And maybe their carpark... And some businesses... And some homes. Maybe the local school roof. That'll quickly add […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

The number that really puts this all into perspective comes from the Wikipedia page on LGV Sud Est. The french high-speed line from Paris to Lyon. The total area of the train line is 16km². By comparison Charles de Gaul airport is 32km². Trains are an incredibly efficient use of space To throw […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Solar energy is an absolutely incredible technology. It's a key building block of our sustainable future. We need lots of it. But maybe before we start trying to cram it into the safety critical infrastructure of our railway tracks, we start first with every equatorial facing roof top. And maybe […]

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Michael Fenichel @drmike.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerland-50… > "Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Australia’s newest international airport to be powered by 100 pct solar electricity. Australia’s newest airport, the Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport will be powered by 100 per cent renewable electricity, thanks to a large rooftop solar system and a big battery. It will […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Looking for some #diy #solar advice. Specifically, I am looking for a bracket solution whereby I could mount solar panels on the top of each fence post around the yard. (either full size 6x3ft rectangular panels or 5x5 “half size”? My backyard is in a […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

A picture of the side fence with my own drawing over top of the panels mounted on each post

Another picture this time of the north side of the fence with the pals mounted on the post pointed south

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Scientists make the world’s most efficient solar panel. German researchers have built the most efficient solar panel ever, turning 34.4% of sunlight into electricity. That’s way higher than ordinary rooftop panels, which usually convert between 20-23%. This is a research breakthrough, not […]

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 27/06/2026

The fastest shift in electricity generation in history - and it is still accelerating bsky.app/profile/prof... Why would it slow? Thos suggesting it might are ignoring the current data.

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 27/06/2026

Before the "capacity isn't generation" replies arrive: here's the generation chart. Fossil fuels' share of China's electricity generation has fallen dramatically over the past two decades — from around 80% to below 60% — while coal's share of installed capacity has fallen from 61% to 32%.

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Australia's 4.5 million solar homes are helping lower electricity costs for everyone. That's the headline from AEMO's 2026 Integrated System Plan. Not just the households with solar. Everyone. The ISP confirms what the smart energy industry has been demonstrating for years: solar, wind […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

In the most extreme of locations, solar is still adding value Longyearbyen, despite its extreme Arctic conditions and complete absence of PV generation during the polar night in the winter, still shows strong PV performance during late spring and summer. In these months, the capacity factor is […]

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Roasting House Coffee @roastinghouse.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

We plan to invest in 100% #solar #coffee roasting this or next year. Our energy supplier is #Octopus and we've had a quote from them earlier in the year and discussed options. Trust them to do it, price seems competitive. I've generally liked Octopus, I can ping an email and they get back […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Sophie doesn’t have solar panels. She’s using someone else’s roof instead. Households with excess rooftop solar are selling cheap power to other homes and small businesses directly, beating the dwindling feed-in tariffs offered by retailers and delivering savings to non-solar consumers. This […]

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The_Sun @the-sun.solarcene.community.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Europeans are transforming their garden fences into mini solar farms Solar fences can maximise land use by combining a physical boundary with renewable energy generation One of its biggest selling points is that it removes the need for costly installations that often require scaffolding. Solar […]

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Tino Eberl @tinoeberl.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Der Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz setzt sein Förderprogramm für #Dachbegrünung und #Fassadenbegrünung auch 2026 fort. Die Maßnahmen können Gebäude kühlen, #Regenwasser speichern, die #Luftqualität verbessern und die #Artenvielfalt fördern. Zuschüsse von bis zu 40 Prozent der Kosten sind möglich. In […]

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When enough farmers learn that they can power their equipment from PV they've installed on their barns and as shade for their crops and livestock instead of purchasing diesel to fuel them, there will be a rapid transition to electric tractors and combines.

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Chugach Electric projects its Beluga solar farm will match or beat imported gas prices as local gas supplies tighten In rural Alaska, using a combination of seasonal solar power and diesel generation has proven to be more cost-effective than relying solely on diesel alaskapublic.org/news/economy...

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Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage

Because gas prices are expected to rise in coming years amid a growing shortage in Cook Inlet, the solar project is poised to become cheaper than power generated by imported natural gas.

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