EU companies propose solar PV manufacturing project for hydrogen production. "this factory would provide over 10 GW of installed PV capacity, also including wind, for the production of 100% renewable H2, transported by gas pipelines to hard-to-decarbonise industries, such as steel & chemicals"

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California CCA East Bay Community Energy has signed two power contracts at an average price of 2.2¢/kWh for a total of 225 MWac of solar power

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IEEE Spectrum: Egypt’s Massive 1.8-Gigawatt Benban Solar Park Nears Completion

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Toyota Testing Solar-Powered Electric Prius. Under ideal conditions, car can travel 35 miles. "The Sharp-produced panels are extremely thin at just 0.03 millimeters. Additionally, because they’re so thin, they can be easily shaped to the curves of the Prius."

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Solar power is now cheaper than the grid in hundreds of Chinese cities

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The #1 Risk To Earth

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***IMPORTANT INFO*** "Solar Grand Minimums, Magnetic Reversals and Ice Ages w Ben Davidson": Guns and Butter #365

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Solar Panel Splits Water to Produce Hydrogen. A research team in Belgium says its prototype panel can produce 250 liters of hydrogen gas per day

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China's lead in the global solar race - at a glance. In the space of 25 years, China will have gone from having virtually no solar panels to leading the world by a margin of more than 100%.

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'Just a matter of when': the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solar

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Toyota's New Solar Car Boasts a Staggering Range, Defying Solar Car Critics

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World's Largest Solar Power Plant Switched On. This is a headline you may well read more than once in the coming years.

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China’s solar installations could hit 50GW in 2020

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WoodMac: Spanish ‘Gold Rush’ Helps Fuel New European Solar Boom. "After a multi-year period of depressed installations, Europe’s annual solar market is set to double over the next few years, and do so in a sustained manner"

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Long read: University of New South Wales enabling terawatts of solar power. "because solar is now so cheap and storage relatively expensive, using electricity as it’s generated is most effective, and we can “do stuff that would have seemed ridiculous in the past"

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California has too much solar power. That might be good for ratepayers. CA set two renewable energy records last week: the most solar power ever flowing on the state’s main electric grid, & the most solar power ever taken offline because it wasn’t needed.

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German Home Receives Federal Prize for Outstanding Innovative Achievements. "This passive house impressively demonstrates how a CO2-free energy, fully independent of the grid or additional external sources of power, is already possible."

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Creative thinking: Researchers propose solar methanol island using ocean CO₂. Desalination, electrolysis, CO2 capture, methanol synthesis: all running on solar panels.

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Sweden: The World’s First Solar-Powered Hydrogen Refuelling Station Inaugurated in Mariestad

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Solar Panels on Our House - One Year In ~ ElmertheClep, 2017-10-25

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This desalination device delivers cheap, clean water with just solar power

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The Six Biggest Myths About Battery Storage (Slideshow) By Finn Peacock – Chartered Electrical Engineer, Ex-CSIRO, Founder of SolarQuotes.com.au

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Toyota Industries charges fuel-cell forklifts with solar hydrogen

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Spain’s Balearic Islands to host 10 MW hydrogen project. "Set to be operational in 2021, the green H2 production plant – powered by solar – will supply 10 MW worth of non-polluting energy to sustainable mobility vehicles, hotels and to the industrial estate of Inca"

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Australia’s first solar to hydrogen-based microgrid gets nearly $1 million in federal funding

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Switzerland: Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight | École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Belgian scientists develop solar hydrogen panel. The innovation is said to be able to produce 250 liters of hydrogen per day and can convert sunlight and water vapor from the air directly into hydrogen gas with an efficiency of 15%.

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World’s largest floating solar plant connected in China

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First Chinese-owned solar PV manufacturing plant opens in the US

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New residential solar panels deliver record-breaking efficiency

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Baltic’s largest PV rooftop inaugurated

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Putting Solar Panels on Water Is a Great Idea—but Will It Float?

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Planned 5 GW Indian solar plant will be ‘the world’s largest’

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Swedish Housing Block Powered 100 Percent by Sun and Hydrogen. "The world's first energy self-sufficient housing complex located in Vårgårda, Sweden, now runs entirely on solar energy & stored H2 as the result of a Danish-Swedish partnership b/w Better Energy & Nilsson Energy."

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World’s first, solar-hydrogen powered mini-grids in Uganda. “When the Sunfold generates insufficient power during cloudy days, the hydrogen generator takes over. Thanks to our technology, the Kyenjojo communities will never experience any black-out”

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Lawrence Berkeley Lab looks to cut out the middleman on solar hydrogen. Scientists at the US Deptartment of Energy’s LBL have created a hybrid device which can produce both hydrogen via water splitting and electricity via photovoltaics.

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SolFilm Technology from Sol Voltaics: An Interview with CEO Erik Smith About this Disruptive Solar Panel Technology

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Dubai’s Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) wants hydrogen at its 1 GW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park

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Australia: Pilbara wind and solar plans jump to 11GW as Macquarie provides capital. "the consortium was also looking at using wind & solar for large scale production of green hydrogen, as envisioned by the likes of chief scientist Alan Finkel, the CSIRO, and others."

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New Breakthrough Could Slash Solar Prices To New Lows

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Toyota Australia opening solar powered parts warehouse. "The roof of the newly constructed centre in western Sydney is covered with a 605kW solar array capable of generating 874MWh per annum."

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Chinese Solar Giant to Make All Its Panels With Just Solar Power

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Solar Farms Without Subsidy Sprout From Gloomy Britain to Italy. At least 15 projects in Europe are planned on the basis that government support won’t be needed to profit.

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"Golden Sandwich" Solar Cell Converts 85% Of Sunlight To Electricity

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Why China, and not the US, is the leader in solar power. The solar panel was invented in the US. So why is the US not its biggest proponent?

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LA Times 6/22/17: California invested heavily in solar power. Now there's so much that other states are sometimes paid to take it

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Chiquita Banana 1.25MW Rooftop Solar Tracking System -over 3000 panels

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Scientific American From 2008: Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever (Oldie but Goodie)

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The world's largest solar farm rises in the remote Egyptian desert

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