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On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
"Recycling discarded solar panels could yield $1 trillion by 2060, analysis finds"
#SolarPower #Energy #Recycling
Great photo of the total solar eclipse on August 12th, 2026 as witnessed by #mpsgoettingen director Sami K. Solanki in Praia do Lago das Pontes, Spain.
#solareclipse #solareclipse2026
"Millions of solar eclipse glasses could end up in landfill: Here’s what to do instead"
#SolarEclipse #Landfill #Environment
A group of IMPRS doctoral researchers got to experience the total solar eclipse in Spain yesterday. Here is a picture taken during totality. Location: Mambrilla de Castrejón, Burgos, Spain, Photographer: Betty Tsai.
#solareclipse #solareclipse2026
Wer heute Abend noch nichts vorhat: In #Karlsruhe gibt es eine ganz interessante #Solar-Veranstaltung, wo eins mal direkt mit Leuten reden kann, die sich auskennen.
Parker Solar Probe Observations of Dust Mass and Charge Densities and Their Impact on Kinetic Alfvén Wave Dynamics in Solar Coronal Heating: #SolarCorona heating, opening new field in heliophysics: https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researcher-finds-cosmic-dust-could-play-key-role-cracking-long-standing-mystery-solar-corona-heating-opening-new-field-heliophysics
Three ways to "watch" the solar eclipse safely without glasses
#SolarEclipse2026
On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
"Finland adds 478 MW of large-scale solar in H1"
#Finland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Weltweit wurden inzwischen 3 Terawatt #Solarenergie installiert.
Nach dem ersten Terawatt in wohlhabenden Ländern treiben heute zunehmend ärmere Staaten den Ausbau voran.
Günstige #Solarmodule, der Ausbau von
"Analysis: Solar overtakes gas power in Asia for first time ever"
#Energy #Asia #SolarPower #Renewables
On G83-Lite: Solar Nanogeneration For Everyone (2009) - Learn how plug-in solar curtain linings could trim your home power bill and footprint... #solar #balconySolar #plugInSolar
This is perhaps one of the most fun and entertaining - and educational - threads about someone getting started with #solar … a *great* LONG read for a Saturday morning while drinking my tea:
https://retro.social/@ifixcoinop…
"Switzerland deploys 1.33 GW of solar in 2025"
#Switzerland #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables…
"£400 plug-in solar panels to go on sale in shops – in time to catch record summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Energy
Wenn ihr jetzt PV installieren würdet, wen würdet ihr da beauftragen? Kompakte Infos? #dummeFrage #solar
"Even With Tariffs and Tax Changes, Solar Power Is Soaring"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Soliciting Comments on the Experimental #SolarWind Display Product for In-Situ Instruments through June 28, 2026: https://www.weather.gov/media/notification/pdf_2026/pns26-45_exp_solar_wind_display_product_for_in-situ_instruments.pdf -> the solar wind viewer: https://www.spaceweather.gov/products/solar-wind
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Solar Eyes:
🎵 Be Under No Illusion
#SolarEyes
https://open.spotify.com/track/47cAfoR217GLDHfGilD86M
On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
Den Solar-Boykott zu begründen wird immer schwieriger: 17,4 % mehr Solarstrom 2025, 250 Mrd. Euro Klimaschäden vermieden, 500 Mio. Tonnen CO₂ eingespart. Niklas Engelking / @… hat die Zahlen. Reiche & Konsorten dürfen jetzt erklären, warum wir dennoch mehr Gas brauchen. #Solar
"Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #SolarPower
I may find the heat of our recent #weather a bit hard to deal with but we have officially crossed the cost-neutral line with electricity exports exceeding the cost of imports. #solargeneration #solar
#Science #Solar #Railroad
Apparently this prototype proved successfully.
I would have figured they'd get too dirty to be useful
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/switzerland-train-tracks-solar-panels
In der #stromGedacht App gibt es ein neuen Betrag zu #LastVerschiebung je nachdem wie viel #Solar
"U.S. deploys 7.8 GW of solar in Q1"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646
Die #Energiekrise treibt den Boom bei #Solaranlagen.
Installateure in Niedersachsen arbeiten im Dauer-Einsatz, viele Betriebe sind über Monate ausgebucht. Laut E.ON und #Enpal hat sich die…
"Finland adds 478 MW of large-scale solar in H1"
#Finland #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
On GB/UK Solar PV FiTs and Plug-in Solar (2026) - Can you add plug-in solar to an existing system with Feed-in Tariff? #solar #plugInSolar #FiT -
Current observations from ESA’s #SolarOrbiter help #PredictiveScienceInc predict what the #corona will look like during the upcoming
"Researchers near 100% silver recovery from end-of-life solar panels"
#SolarPower #Recycling #Energy #Renewables
És hora de pressionar el canvi energetic!!!
#hormuz #solar #mediambient
Deeper solar wind penetration on the Moon’s farside from noble gas records: #SolarWind striking moon's near side: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-samples-reveal-earth-solar-moon.html
"The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
#Waymo will ausgemusterte Robotaxi-Akkus künftig als stationäre #Energiespeicher nutzen.
Gemeinsam mit #B2U entstehen Speicherlösungen, die mit großen
A look into the “GREGOR Observations Center” GOC at MPS Göttingen during this month’s remote campaign at the GREGOR Solar Telescope, located on Tenerife. Many great active regions and sunspots, but unfortunately clouds obstructed our view. Hoping for better conditions for our August campaign together with Solar Orbiter 🛰️ 🔭🤞
#Sun
#SolarFlare ribbons structured by uncombed chromospheric loops: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10505 -> StarXiv podcast: https://starxiv.com/2026/06/23/episode-39-data-driven-stellar-population-studies-multi-scale-agn-feedback-and-solar-flare-ribbons/
"Coal pollution cuts solar panel output, research finds"
#SolarPower #Pollution #Energy
#Klimaforschende haben das bisherige Worst-Case-Szenario #RCP85 aus neuen #Klimamodellen gestrichen.
Grund ist, dass der massive Ausbau von
"South Korea selects first villages for community solar scheme"
#SouthKorea #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Neelanchal Joshi of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Measuring multiscale solar flows using local correlation t…
"UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower
Der Solartechnikkonzern #LONGi meldet für eine Silizium-Perowskit-Tandemzelle einen Wirkungsgrad von 35,5 Prozent.
Der Wert wurde laut Unternehmen von der European Solar Test Installation bestätigt und liegt über heutigen kommerziellen #Solarzellen.
Entscheidend bleibt nun, ob sich di…
Another visit to our favorite Sahagún bar ... and another regional newspaper found lying around: the Diario de #León had devoted pages 2 to 8 of the August 11 issue to the #SolarEclipse, here the beginning of an article about the events #ESA will be holding there - see also https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/08/A_total_solar_eclipse_is_coming_to_Europe
"UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #SolarPower #Renewables
#Solarstrom hat in Deutschland zwischen 2020 und 2025 nach Berechnungen des BSW-Solar fossile Energieimporte im Wert von rund 20 Milliarden Euro ersetzt.
Zudem wurden durch die erzeugte Strommenge erhebliche #Treibhausgas-Emissionen vermieden.
Auf Basis von UBA-Schätzungen summie…
Composting vs Solar Power (2007) - Compost bin vs home solar PV: which cuts carbon more? #composting #solarPower - https://www.
"Norwegian startup develops floating PV tech designed to withstand waves of up to 3.5 m"
#Norway #SolarPower #Energy
Die #Bundesregierung plant Anpassungen bei der #EEG-Förderung für neue kleine #Solaranlagen.
Statt eines sofortigen Endes der festen
"Scientists develop near-invisible solar cells that could turn windows into power generators"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
175 years ago #OTD the Prussian photographer Johann Julius Friedrich #Berkowski took the first photograph of a total #SolarEclipse, seen here in 19th century 'processing': more in https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/julius-berkowski/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20150402161350/http://www.astro.uni-jena.de/~schie/20130000_WittmannSchielicke_Parish_Mitt_Gauss-Ges_Nr_50(2013)_S_37-54.pdf (PDF pages 8-12) and https://time.com/4883424/solar-eclipse-first-photo-taken/ and https://hyperallergic.com/the-first-photographs-of-a-solar-eclipse/ and https://petapixel.com/2017/08/05/first-ever-solar-eclipse-photo-shot-1851/
"Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants"
#Switzerland #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
Will the #SolarCorona look like this come 12 August and the Total #SolarEclipse? The Spanish government thinks so, based on a #simulation - https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-and-california-based-predictive-science-inc-predict-solar-corona-august-12-eclipse-using-la-palma - by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in collaboration with Predictive Science Inc.: https://www.ciencia.gob.es/Noticias/2026/julio/MICIU-utiliza-Superordenador-Palma-predecir-corona-solar-eclipse.html
"Romania’s solar capacity exceeds 8.5 GW"
#Romania #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Solar power brings energy to rural Indonesia, but inequality remains"
#Indonesia #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Stardust as nucleation seeds for the earliest solids in the Solar System: #SolarSystem: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ancient-stardust-were-seeds-for-the-earliest-solids-in-the-solar-system
"Malaysia forecast to reach 29.7 GW of solar by 2035"
#Malaysia #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
"Argentine football club inaugurates 120 kW solar system"
#Argentine #Argentina #Footballs #SolarPower
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 state of flux, and the fence is new last fall so this is the time to do it.
The brackets would need to attach on the inward facing side of the post, or as a “cap” over the top of the post and then have a bracket that holds the panel up and far enough away to clear the fence at an angle.
The long side of our yard faces north/south so it is perfect for panels throughout the year.
We get strong southerly winds so they would need to be solid.
Suggestions appreciated. It would be great if there was something purpose built for mounting panels on fences.
It might be something I just need to have made custom (there are lots of welding shops in town) but I am not sure how to make sure that the panel itself would be able to attach to the bracket properly.
#solarpanels #metalwork #welding #hardware
"Mexico exceeds 5 GW of distributed solar capacity"
#Mexico #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Türkiye adds 1.97 GW of solar in January-April"
#Turkey #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
"Heatwave delivers savings spike for UK homes fitted with solar"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #SolarPower
"Reform voters prefer solar to fossil fuels, according to poll"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels #SolarPower
"Solar fridges lift African farmers’ incomes by 50 percent"
#Africa #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
This is how far behind and how much of a disadvantage Canadians are at right now domestically.
Walk into Canadian Tire and you can by a 500W "kit” of 4 125W solar panels from $1199. That works out to $2.40 per Watt.
Or, you can go on Alibaba as I just did... search for 400W solar, chat with a (AI Bot probably?) and be offered 36 620 watt "JinkoSolar" panels for $US 2500 plus $3000 shipping which works out to $8,510.88 CAD or $0.38 per Watt.
Our governments and business communities are completely failing us. We are getting fleeced.
Granted I don't know if there would be import duties, but FGS the price difference is totally ridiculous.
#Solar #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SolarPV #Affordability
"Solar and storage account for 91% of new U.S. grid capacity in Q1"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
"Solar cold storage helps African farmers cut losses and reach global markets"
#Africa #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
"The grid is in better shape this summer. Thank solar and batteries."
#Batteries #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
"Domestic solar cells to meet half of India’s total demand this fiscal year"
#India #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
"Italy deploys 3 GW of solar in H1"
#Italy #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
"India installs 15.3 GW of solar capacity in Q1"
#India #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
"Argentina’s distributed solar capacity grew 34.5% in H1"
#Argentina #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Maybe this is the way.
Treat it like one single line of panels by extending the posts up attaching to a cross bar that would go the full length of the fence (or however long the line of panels is) and provide the base for each panel.
#diy #solar #solarpanels #metalwork #welding #hardware
"India installs 2.7 GW of rooftop PV in Q1"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
made a good dent in 2.25hrs
one more half hour stint and then I'm done for the day. Sun is getting high and hot! 🌞
The goal is to turn the grey shed in the picture 90° so the door is facing to the left, then get an identical shed and place it facing the first shed with a gap in the middle to get things in and out.
AND THEN... because the roof lines will face south, put solar panels on top of both. 😊 ☀️ ⚡️
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #gardening #landscaping #solar