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Enviromena wins approval for 35-MWac Daisy Hill Solar Farm near Hull
Enviromena secured planning consent for the 35-MWac Daisy Hill Solar Farm in East Yorkshire, with strong biodiversity and community commitments.
Oct 16, 2025 // Plants, UK, Europe, Solar Project, Enviromena, East Yorkshire, planning consent
What is Solar?
Coming from, relating to, or depending on the sun. The term originates from the Latin language.     ← Back to Solar Energy Glossary
Sep 13, 2023
Jemalong solar farm begins building greatly untouched by Covid-19
Among the biggest solar projects set up to begin this year has actually relocated right into the building stage mainly untouched by Covid-19 interruption.
Apr 1, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, Jemalong, Genex
New generation of solar panels consisting of small sunflower imitations
A new type of PV plants is being developed: solar systems consisting of rows of small man-made sunflowers, which automatically turn their heads toward the sun.
Nov 5, 2019 // Technology, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV plants, Los Angeles, sunflower, SunBOT, Ximin He, University of California
Statkraft returns to procedures at floating solar park in Albania
Statkraft has actually restarted operations at the initial unit of its floating solar plant located at the Banja storage tank in southeastern Albania, Norwegian floating solar innovation programmer Ocean Sun, which developed the system, claimed.
Apr 8, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Europe, Statkraft, Albania, Solar Park
Solar powered weeding tractor uses manual labour
You might not have realised this, but there’s a group of hackers out there without whom you wouldn’t be able to put food on the table. They hack under the blazing sun and pouring rain, and have been doing it for thousands of years. Known more commonly as farmers, their creative problem solving skills with whatever is lying around can be absolutely jaw dropping. [Andrew Mans] is one such individual. He built a solar powered weeding tractor that uses human labour to do the actual weeding.
Oct 16, 2019 // Transport, Agriculture, solar electric motor, tractor, weeding, Andrew Mans
Texas Solar-Powered Data Center Will Channel Surplus Sunlight Into Supercomputing
Soluna Holdings will build a 75-MW modular data-center campus next to a 114-MW solar array in northeast Texas, turning excess daytime power into high-performance computing.
May 26, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, data centers, Soluna
Akuo Solar Deal Powers Imerys' US Plants with Texas Sunshine
Akuo’s 195-MWp Tennyson Solar Farm will power a third of Imerys’ US operations, fixing energy costs and cutting 67 kt of CO₂ under a 15-year Texas PPA.
Jun 20, 2025 // Plants, USA, Texas, akuo, North America, corporate ppa, Imerys
Uzbek oil player mulls solar rollout
SEG is undertaking a PV pilot prior to determining to equip its various other remote O&G areas with PV panels
Oct 14, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Asia, Uzbekistan, solar farm, SEG, Sergey Ryabov
Australian Solar Developer's Modular Solar Tech to Power Lithium Mine Project
The 5B Maverick technology is a ground mount solar remedy created to be safer, much more affordable as well as much faster to deploy for offgrid, business and commercial, as well as large-scale solar power generation. 5B will be setting up solar PV for the 95 MW hybrid microgrid in the Kathleen Valley Lithium project.
Feb 8, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, microgrid, Solar Project, ground mount solar, Zenith Energy, Hamish Moffat, Kathleen Valley Lithium, Liontown Resources, solar racking solutions
Work begins on UK's biggest solar plant
Project Fortress in Kent forecast to produce renewable power for 100,000 homes
Apr 24, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Residential, UK, Europe, PV Power Plant
McCarthy completes construction on 200-MW Arizona solar project set to power Microsoft data center
McCarthy Building Companies' Renewable Energy and Storage Group recently finished building and last appointing of the 200-MWdc Sun Streams 2 solar project in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Oct 11, 2021 // Plants, USA, Microsoft, North America, McCarthy, Scott Canada
Billionaire Says Australia-to-Singapore Solar Plan Now Unviable
Squadron Energy says power Cable to Singapore not viable Sees future for eco-friendly assets in Northern Territory
Jan 16, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Asia, Oceania, Singapore, Sun Cable, Squadron Energy
What is Zenith angle?
The angle between a specified direction (for instance, direction to the sun) and the zenith (the point directly above).     ← Back to
Sep 13, 2023
What is Solar energy?
Electromagnetic energy transmitted from the sun at the wavelengths that can be converted into electrical, chemical, mechanical, or heat
Sep 13, 2023