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Morocco just activated the Noor Atlas Mega Complex


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... a 20,000-megawatt #solar installation across 45,000 hectares of Saharan plateau. It's capable of generating up to 160 MW, making the first stage alone one of the world's biggest solar thermal power plants

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(from 2016) https://unfccc.int/es/node/21533

#solar #marocco #NoorAtlas

#solar #marocco #NoorAtlas

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert


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... Desert have started to trigger increased rainfall and vegetation growth.

They drastically lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness.

This awakening of the desert leads to oases of life that could “green” the desert as more solar panel farms are built. ...

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-panels-are-creating-rain-clouds/19854/
#solar #panels

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle

A recent study has found an unexpected benefit from the undisputed king of the renewable energy sector as solar panels are creating rain clouds in the desert.
Warren van der Sandt (ecoportal.net)
#solar #panels

Apparently «global #solar panel prices have collapsed due to a wave of new Asian production capacity in recent months» and we're supposed to believe this is a bad thing.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-solar-panel-manufacturing-boom-threatened-by-cheap-imports-2023-11-03/

#renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #IRA


Insight: US solar panel manufacturing boom threatened by cheap imports

U.S. companies have announced plans to build dozens of solar panel factories across the country since last year when President Joe Biden’s signature climate law unleashed billions of dollars of subsidies, raising hopes a clean energy boom can provide…
Nichola Groom (Reuters)
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #solar #Renewables #IRA

#Hungarian Government: they helped to create huge amount of civilian #solar panels; they created zero storage; they offered the system to buy the surplus and deduct from the usage, so it was very economical to spend lot of money on the solar.
Now they say "the evil EU make us" to change the system to monthly differential (they don't want to pay for storage costs), so summer production cannot cover winter use. About 100'000 people gets fucked. They're still not burnt. #Hungary
#hungary #solar #Hungarian

…actually last month #hungary government have stopped residential #solar installations by forbidding "selling" surplus energy back to the grid, additional to forbidding solar power plants last year by closing all the grants related to them.
Screeching halt.
Oh and they have forbidden building new #wind turbines last year as well "until further notice". Lovely ain't it?
#hungary #solar #wind

Not if you only use electricity when the sun is shining at 100% power. Yes unless that's not the case.
(Read: definintely yes.)

DYK that Hungarian electrical system is about to collapse (according to the honest local government) due to unable to store (and equalize) the solar and wind power intake? (Hungary has no mountains to use for water-gravity storage.)

#greenenergy #energystorage #solar #hungary
#hungary #solar #greenenergy #energystorage

#France leads the way.

New legislation demands all *existing* carparks with 80 or more spaces must install a #solar roof (in 3-5 years)

This could generate up to 11 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of 10 #nuclear reactors!

#climate #renewables

https://electrek.co/2022/11/08/france-require-parking-lots-be-covered-in-solar-panels/?s=09

In France, all large parking lots now have to be covered by solar panels

France just approved legislation requiring all parking lots, current and future, to be covered in solar panels.
Jennifer Mossalgue (Electrek.co)
#France #climate #solar #Nuclear #Renewables

Somebody was after pictures of phone boxes, can't remember who. Anyway, I stopped beside this one on the way back to Broken Hill today. #solar #payphone #outback
A phone box in the Australian outback with a solar panel on top
#payphone #solar #outback

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