Globally, energy markets are transitioning away from coal and toward solar energy. In 2024, the world installed a record-breaking 599 GW of solar and has nearly 2 TW in development. Installed solar ...

China installed its highest solar power capacity for a single month in May, according to official data, which showed mind-boggling figures that the country installed more solar capacity in a month ...

China has brought a massive offshore solar farm online – a full 1 gigawatt of photovoltaic capacity built at sea.

Florida is still the top state in the Southeast for installed solar capacity. It actually outperformed all others, like Texas and California, when it comes to the pace of capacity additions. As of ...

Is solar power going to take over the world? The past few years have seen a frankly astounding acceleration in the rate of its deployment, with total generation capacity doubling between 2022 and 2024 ...

Germany gets less sun than the entire continental US, and yet almost a fifth of its electrical generation was done by solar ...

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Turkey’s 25 existing hybrid solar power plants added 14% to the generation of their co-located wind and hydroelectric plants. Image: Talesun. The addition of solar panels to existing wind and ...