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"World’s first solar park featuring hydrogen-producing PV modules takes shape in Belgium"
#Belgium #SolarPower #Energy

World’s first solar park featuring hydrogen-producing PV modules takes shape in Belgium
A 2 MW solar park in Wallonia, Belgium, will rely 50 kW of hydrogen-producing solar modules developed by Solhyd, a spin-off from KU Lueven. The installation will be the first demonstration of Solhyd’s technology at a commercially-relevant scale.

This week, public power is stepping up.
Great British Energy is targeting 15 GW of wind, solar and storage by 2030. New York's NYPA is building 5.5 GW of renewables. Bolivia launched its first Indigenous protected area with forest monitoring. Tennessee turned a former farm into Middle Fork Bottoms State Park, reconnecting floodplains to reduce flooding.
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Welcome This week feels like work and wonder at once. Night comes early in the north and the Geminids begin to stitch bright threads across the cold sky. Far south, heat lifts and cicadas test their summer chorus. In that split screen of seasons, our stories settle on two steady

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Australia just fired up its first solar-battery hybrid on the main grid—and it's a game-changer for evening power.
Quorn Park combines an 80 MW solar farm with a 20 MW battery, storing daytime sun and releasing it during peak demand hours when the grid needs it most.
This is the model for clean energy's future: 20 similar projects just won government backing.

First solar-battery hybrid on Australia's main grid is energised, and ready to send PV into evening peaks
The first large scale solar battery hybrid project to join Australia's main grid has been energised, and is getting ready to feed stored solar into evening peaks.

IBC Solar hat in #Veringenstadt seinen ersten #AgriPV-#Solarpark mit einachsigen #Solartrackern

IBC Solar: Erster Agri-PV-Park mit Solartrackern fertig
Das Photovoltaik-Unternehmen IBC Solar hat in Veringenstadt einen Agri-PV-Solarpark mit einer Nennleistung von 8,5 Megawatt fertiggestellt.

"611 MW Arinos Solar Park accelerates the energy transition in Brazil"
#Brazil #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

611 MW Arinos Solar Park accelerates the energy transition in Brazil
Commissioned on 30 January 2025, Enel Group’s Arinos Solar Park in Minas Gerais combines clean energy generation, advanced technologies, skilled jobs, and measurable benefits for local communities.

"Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia"
#Colombia #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia
Atlas Renewable Energy says its 201 MW solar project in Ibagué represents the company’s first utility-scale installation in Colombia and is supported by financing from multilateral and local lenders.

"Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online"
#Denmark #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
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Denmark’s second largest PV plant goes online
Swedish independent power producer Alight has completed a 215 MW solar project in Lolland, southern Denmark. The construction of Lidsø solar park started in the summer of 2024.