Storage & grids
Huawei’s expo announcement puts grid-forming controls alongside AI
The company describes solar, storage and charging products at IDEE 2026. Their common technical question is how power electronics can help a grid remain stable.
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Industry & policy
Beyond Energix’s Lithuania deal: what a hybrid project still has to deliver
A reported acquisition prompts a closer look at the separate roles of wind, solar and storage—and the difference between a project plan and output.
Environment
Australia’s solar recycling challenge begins before the recycling plant
A national pilot is designed to test how used panels reach processors. Collection, transport and responsibility matter alongside recovery technology.
Environment
An energy shock can change policy before it changes emissions
Policies, investment and greenhouse-gas estimates tell different parts of the 2026 energy story. Reading them together prevents premature conclusions.
Research & technology
A tidal-energy forecast needs a scale—and a shoreline
MarketsandMarkets projects a larger market by 2031. The announcement offers a starting point for understanding a marine technology, not a measure of electricity already supplied.
People & communities
Before a solar garden, listen to the people who will use it
A North Carolina student project places crop measurements alongside residents’ needs.
Industry & policy
A French farming cooperative enters the solar project conversation
VIVESCIA and TSE plan to develop agrivoltaic projects together in the Grand Est region.
Research & technology
What a shaded tomato can tell California's solar researchers
Early observations at UC Davis show why crop protection and crop growth must be measured together.
People & communities
Counting the work sheep could bring to a Michigan solar site
An MSU scenario explores grazing and vegetation management, with an important distinction between economic activity and farm profit.
Environment
What happens when a solar roof becomes a garden?
Bradfield’s roof offers a promising cooling story—and a lesson in separating measurements from models.
Industry & policy
A rooftop tariff proposal raises a question: what is solar electricity worth, and when?
A reported change for 2027 is a reason to examine payment rules and energy timing—not a confirmed new tariff.
Storage & grids
Stored solar heat reaches the coffee roaster
A US laboratory demonstration connects solar electricity with process heat.
People & communities
The alpacas with a second job beneath solar panels
A New York farm’s experience reveals the people, grazing work and agreements behind a shared solar landscape.
Agrivoltaics
In Egypt, a small solar pilot asks a larger water question
A South Sinai project brings farming and electricity together; its water benefits still need measurement.
Agrivoltaics
Can a greenhouse share its sunlight with solar panels?
REGACE explores electricity inside working greenhouses—and shows why a big potential figure needs careful reading.
Agrivoltaics
Ma'ale Gilboa's grapes put solar shade to a field test
An early harvest study shows why a farming partnership needs careful crop measurements.
Agrivoltaics
Solar shade needs more than one season of testing
A Massachusetts experiment challenges promises of a universal crop benefit.
Storage & grids
Saving electricity in a block of heat
Antora is using hot carbon blocks to supply industrial energy. A South Dakota project shows why a heat battery must be read differently from an electricity battery.
Research & technology
Apollo’s lightweight panels put roof load in the spotlight
A company-materials briefing examines what a lightweight solar module changes—and why lower weight still leaves installation questions to answer.
Industry & policy
Ashalim: following sunlight from mirrors to a steam turbine
The Megalim tower shows a different way of turning the Negev's sunlight into electricity.
Environment
At Bahan reservoir, solar electricity shares a working water site
Floating panels link an Emek Hefer irrigation reservoir to a second task: generating electricity.
Research & technology
Testing a solar cell against the seasons
At Ben-Gurion University, researchers ask what happens after the best efficiency measurement. Their work follows perovskite cells through changing light, heat and nights.
Storage & grids
A battery built for the hours after sunset
CMBlu's water-based storage offers a different route from lithium-ion. Understanding it means separating chemistry, hours of delivery and evidence from deployment.
Industry & policy
Dimona solar project clears a financing milestone
A project participant reports financial close for the planned 265 MW facility. The announcement advances the construction story; it does not establish electricity generation.
Research & technology
What happens when solar panels meet the ground?
A Fresno water-treatment plant is trying a design that removes the steel rack. The engineering story moves from supporting panels to managing an entire site.
Industry & policy
What can your roof produce? A guide to the government solar calculator
Start with the official tool, understand its inputs, and turn an estimate into better questions for an installer.
Research & technology
Printing a solar cell that leaves room for light
A Hebrew University team explored flexible, partly transparent solar cells. Their 2023 study opens a design question: how can a window generate electricity and still function as a window?
People & communities
100,000 solar roofs: the programme behind the number
A residential programme aims to add many small electricity producers. Its launch, intended tools and later publications tell us what the government is trying to achieve—and what still needs measuring.
Industry & policy
30% by 2030: reading Israel’s electricity target correctly
Israel’s adopted target concerns electricity from all renewable sources. Its meaning becomes clearer when the percentage is separated from installed equipment and individual projects.
Industry & policy
Israel’s 2035 renewable electricity debate: a proposal is a stage, not a result
The Electricity Authority’s January recommendation and the ministry’s May strategy draft are separate steps in planning the next decade. Here is how to read their dates, percentages and status.
Research & technology
A reader’s guide to agricultural R&D institutions in Israel
Seven entries, different roles: national research, regional trials, laboratory services and a supporting foundation—with links to check the work behind each name.
Industry & policy
Powering Israel’s AI ambitions: the system behind the nuclear debate
An investor’s case for nuclear-powered computing raises a broader question: how should an electricity system serve growing digital demand?
Industry & policy
A July window into Israel’s solar production data
Two Noga files contain more than half a million observations. They offer a starting point for monthly reporting, provided we keep their coverage and units in view.
People & communities
A solar roof in Israel: what government help can do
The 2026 campaign points homeowners towards information, planning tools and regulatory guidance. Turning that help into a working roof still requires a project-specific decision.
Industry & policy
Israel’s 2025 solar capacity: reading the rise beyond the headline
IRENA records 7,121 MW of photovoltaic capacity at the end of 2025. The increase is substantial, but the table also carries clues about what the numbers can tell us.
Industry & policy
Who does what in Israeli solar?
Enlight, Doral and Nofar illustrate the different jobs behind a solar project. A useful company guide starts with responsibilities rather than a league table.
Industry & policy
The work after installation: cleaning solar panels at Ketura
Ecoppia's 2014 Ketura Sun deployment offers an Israeli case study in the service work behind solar electricity, where dust, water and maintenance meet.
Agrivoltaics
Three harvests to test solar shade above a pear orchard
A French orchard experiment will follow fruit, trees and water use together.
People & communities
The neighbours who helped a shared roof become a solar project
Early agreements in Be'er Sheva and Karmiel reveal the organizing work behind apartment-building solar.
Industry & policy
After a record solar year, the grid becomes the story
SolarPower Europe's 2026 outlook reports another major expansion. Reading the numbers properly reveals why installation totals and useful electricity are different measures of progress.
People & communities
Why Israel wants more solar roofs: a simple guide
From sunlight to the electricity network, here is how one roof fits into a much bigger plan.
Research & technology
Space solar power heads for a conversation with the energy industry
The Space Frontier Foundation plans a Washington symposium on 30 September 2026. Demonstrations and cost studies show why the conversation still centres on development.
Research & technology
Two layers of sunlight: reading a solar-module record
Trinasolar reports a 907-watt tandem module. The result is a useful opening into how solar cells share the spectrum—and what still separates a test from a dependable product.