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Shell’s $2 Billion Nigeria Gas Gamble Ignites LNG Boom Amid $8 B Investment Surge

Shell’s Surprise Hedge Deal Turbocharges Bulgaria’s Battery Boom — Sunotec Locks 5‑Year Price Shield on 600+ MWh; Sungrow Secures 2.4 GWh Supply

Key facts (Nov 5, 2025): What happened — and why now On Nov. 4, Sunotec announced a cross‑border spread hedge with Shell Energy Europe for its Bulgarian 600+ MWh BESS. The arrangement, facilitated by Enery Portfolio Optimisation, gives the project long‑term price certainty by locking in revenues against market spreads between bidding zones. Sunotec says the facility is already under development and aims to reach COD in Q2 2026. Renewables Now A spread hedge manages the difference between prices in two connected wholesale electricity markets (or zones). In Europe’s coupled power system, such hedges are a recognized way to tame
5 November 2025
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Enphase Energy Stock Plunge Despite Earnings Beat – What’s Behind the Solar Shake-Up?

Enphase Energy Stock Plunge Despite Earnings Beat – What’s Behind the Solar Shake-Up?

Enphase Stock Slumps Despite Big Earnings Beat Enphase Energy’s stock has been struggling in 2025 – and the latest earnings did little to change that narrative. Shares closed around $36.70 on Oct. 28 (down ~0.3% on the day) chartmill.com, then tumbled roughly 7–8% to the mid-$33 range in after-hours trading once Q3 results and guidance were out chartmill.com. This drop wiped out a modest rally the stock had enjoyed in October, effectively “erasing the gains seen over the previous two weeks” chartmill.com. The immediate cause was mixed news in the Q3 report. On one hand, Enphase delivered a solid beat:
29 October 2025
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Bahrain’s First Solar Power Plant: 150MW Tender to Power 6,300 Homes & Slash 100,000t CO₂

Bahrain’s First Solar Power Plant: 150MW Tender to Power 6,300 Homes & Slash 100,000t CO₂

First Ever Saudi-Funded Solar Tender in Bahrain Bahrain’s EWA formally launched the tender on Oct. 16, 2025 for the kingdom’s first utility-scale PV plant renewablesnow.com. President Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed called it “one of the most prominent strategic projects” for Bahrain’s clean energy push renewablesnow.com. The detailed tender documents specify a Bilaj Al Jazayer Solar IPP of at least 100 MWac (150 MWdc), allowing scale up to the originally announced 150 MW. Bids from experienced developers are due by Dec 28, 2025 taiyangnews.info. The winning bidder will sign a long-term power purchase/operation deal under a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) model pv-tech.org taiyangnews.info. In practice, the private
22 October 2025
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Sunrun (RUN) Stock Soars 5% to 12-Month High on Analyst Upgrades and Solar Incentives

Sunrun (RUN) Stock Soars 5% to 12-Month High on Analyst Upgrades and Solar Incentives

Stock Rallies on Upbeat Sentiment On Oct. 21, 2025, Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN) traded around $20.50, up about 5% intraday reuters.com. This surge followed news that Wall Street’s Citigroup had upgraded Sunrun to “Buy” with a $26 price target marketbeat.com. The stock’s rally pushed it above the consensus 12-month analyst target (~$20) ts2.tech. In fact, RUN hit a new 12-month high (~$20.25) on Oct. 7 markets.financialcontent.com, as investors cheered its improving fundamentals and solar incentives. Over the year, Sunrun has been on a tear. Earlier in 2025, the shares languished near multi-year lows (around $5.38), but rallied into the teens after
21 October 2025
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Michigan’s Green Energy Boom: Utilities Hit 50% Renewables Target as Solar Grants Surge

Michigan’s Green Energy Boom: Utilities Hit 50% Renewables Target as Solar Grants Surge

Michigan Races Toward 50% Renewable Power Michigan’s clean energy transition has reached a major inflection point. A new report from the Michigan Public Service Commission confirms the state’s regulated utilities will end 2025 with over 8.3 gigawatts of renewables online, and “that capacity will more than double by 2030,” despite some uncertainties around federal tax credit phase-outs and trade tariffs interlochenpublicradio.org. This rapid expansion puts Michigan on track to meet ambitious new standards signed into law by state leaders: 50% renewable electricity by 2030, 60% by 2035, and 100% carbon-free power by 2040 interlochenpublicradio.org. Experts say these targets are not only
17 October 2025
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Trump Axes 6.2GW “Vegas-Sized” Solar Farm in Nevada – Renewable Energy Industry Reels

Trump Axes 6.2GW “Vegas-Sized” Solar Farm in Nevada – Renewable Energy Industry Reels

BLM on Oct 10 listed the Esmeralda 7 solar project in Nevada as “cancelled” energyconnects.com theguardian.com. The massive project (seven contiguous solar farms on ~185 sq mi of public land) would have generated ~6,200 MW – enough for nearly 2 million homes pv-magazine-usa.com theguardian.com. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s Trump administration said developers can now submit individual proposals instead of one programmatic EIS energyconnects.com electrek.co. Conservationists and some locals celebrated the cancellation, while clean‑energy advocates (NRDC, SEIA, EDF) warned it’s a blatant rollback of renewables: NRDC’s Kabir Green calls it “unfettered obstruction” of clean-energy projects pv-magazine-usa.com. The cancellation comes amid a broader Trump‐era push against renewables:
12 October 2025
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Solar vs. Coal vs. Nuclear: Lazard’s 2025 Report Reveals the Cheapest Power Source

Solar vs. Coal vs. Nuclear: Lazard’s 2025 Report Reveals the Cheapest Power Source

Introduction: The Race for the Cheapest Energy Source What is the cheapest form of energy today? It’s a complex question fueled by falling renewable costs, volatile fossil fuel prices, and urgent climate concerns. To cut through the noise, analysts often turn to the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) – a metric that compares the all-in lifetime cost of different power sources. LCOE represents the price a generator must receive per unit of electricity to cover its construction, financing, and operating costs over its lifespan cbsnews.com. In essence, it’s a “apples-to-apples” benchmark of what it costs to produce a megawatt-hour (MWh)
16 September 2025
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Swann EVO Wireless Solar Camera – Can This Solar Security Cam Outsmart Arlo & Ring?

Swann EVO Wireless Solar Camera – Can This Solar Security Cam Outsmart Arlo & Ring?

Key Facts Technical Specifications and Features Resolution & Optics: The Swann EVO Solar cam records in 2K Quad HD (about twice the detail of standard 1080p) t3.com. This yields clear video quality where faces and objects can be distinguished more easily than on older 1080p cameras. It uses a fixed lens with a 120° wide viewing angle, minimizing blind spots and covering more area with a single camera us.swann.com. Zoom is digital-only. In low light, the camera switches to infrared night vision, using IR LEDs to see up to roughly 8 meters au.swann.com. (Because it has no white LED spotlight, night
31 August 2025
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Rocket Launches, Ransomware, and a Solar-Powered Vatican: This Weekend’s Top Tech News (Aug 2–3, 2025)

Rocket Launches, Ransomware, and a Solar-Powered Vatican: This Weekend’s Top Tech News (Aug 2–3, 2025)

Apple forecast higher revenue for the upcoming quarter after a tariff-driven early surge in iPhone purchases aimed at beating U.S. import tariffs. Nintendo said its Switch 2 sold over 6 million units in the first seven weeks after the June debut and kept its full-year forecast at 15 million Switch 2 consoles through March 2026. TSMC reported a 60.7% year‑over‑year jump in Q2 net profit to NT$398.3 billion, a record, helped by demand for advanced chips across data centers and smartphones. AMD began shipping the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series, featuring up to 96 cores on Zen 5, with rollout
3 August 2025
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This New Solar Panel Tech Works Even at Night

This New Solar Panel Tech Works Even at Night

Thermoradiative energy generation, nicknamed night-time solar, produces electricity by emitting infrared radiation to the cold night sky when the device is warmer than its surroundings. Unlike conventional solar cells that absorb sunlight, thermoradiative devices emit photons to space, effectively running as a solar cell in reverse and using the Earth–space temperature difference at night. In 2020, Jeremy Munday and colleagues proposed an anti-solar cell that could theoretically produce up to about 50 W/m² at night under ideal conditions. In 2022, UNSW Sydney demonstrated the first unambiguous lab power from a thermoradiative diode using mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe), generating nanowatts and
29 July 2025
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Renewable Revolution 2025: Game-Changing Innovations in Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Bioenergy & Hydropower

Renewable Revolution 2025: Game-Changing Innovations in Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Bioenergy & Hydropower

Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells achieved about 29% efficiency on commercial-size cells, exceeding traditional silicon panels. Bifacial solar panels boost energy yields by up to 30% in reflective environments such as snow or sand. Floating solar farms can raise output by roughly 15% due to water cooling of the panels. Covering 10% of the world’s reservoirs with floating solar could yield about 20 TW of capacity, roughly 20 times today’s global solar capacity. Offshore wind turbines now reach 15–18 MW per turbine, enabling major capacity gains in deep waters. Floating offshore wind pilots have been launched by Norway, France, and Japan,
10 July 2025
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