I think driven by steady reduction in cost of panels.
China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power | China | The Guardian https://share.google/tp0sLMQAncfwzYKpJ
Not suddenly this year.
Solar power in China - Wikipedia https://share.google/46zUPue2ARy2QUvB0
This looks like an #exponential curve, up to last year.
It'll be a #logistic curve, I suppose, but there's no indication of the flattening of the rise into an S yet.
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#emobility #photovoltaics #batterystorage #biology
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In #Australia, households will get at least 3 hours of free power during noon because of #photovoltaics:
"requiring retailers to offer free #electricity to households for at least three hours in the middle of the day when #solar generation is at its peak."
https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/bowen/media-releases/more-australian-homes-get-access-solar-power
About me (for english readers):
I work as a pastor in the Protestant Church in Bavaria, have a trans* biography (came out in 2013) and am interested in scientific topics – especially with regard to the climate crisis, but also with regard to how we can motivate people in a democracy to adopt a different lifestyle (in order to achieve climate targets). I am also fascinated by biology, solar energy issues (photovoltaics, battery storage, etc.), e-mobility and, of course, human rights worldwide.
#emobility #photovoltaics #batterystorage #biology
#climatecrisis #science
📊 2025 : The simulations show that if the swarm design can deliver #electricity at six to nine times the projected 2050 cost of ground PV, system #costs fall by 7%–15% 📉. At that price, #space -based #solar ☀️ can displace up to 80% of wind-plus-solar capacity and cut #battery needs by more than 70% https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435125002557
I remember many people (mostly white folks) telling me that I'm crazy & have no idea what I was talking about - when I told them that while Global North kept ignoring opportunities for shifting to more #SolarPower & more #WindEnergy to move away from #FossilFuels as part of longterm #EnergyProducing plans/infrastructure, China was going to kick global ass with their full investments on wind & solar #AlternativeEnergy. I said that in 1996.
China became the world's leading installer of #photovoltaics in 2013. China surpassed Germany as the world's largest producer of photovoltaic energy in 2015 & became the first country to have over 100 GW of total installed photovoltaic capacity in 2017. As of 2024, Chinese firms are the industry leaders in almost all of the key parts of the solar industry supply chain, including polysilicon, silicon wafers, batteries & photovoltaic modules.
#WindPower remained China's 3rd largest source of #electricity at the end of 2021, accounting for 7.5% of total power generation.
China is forecast to have 1200 GW of combined #wind & #solar capacity by 2030 as part of the government's pledge to increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary #energy consumption to around 25% by that year.
Both wind & solar energy industries in China have created thousands of sustainable jobs as well. They have boosted the Chinese economy from within.
#AsianMastodon #DivestFromFossilFuels #GlobalSouth #ChineseEnergyIndustry
The efficiency and infrastructure practicalities of these projects are awesome
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-first-canal-array-project-nexus
#photovoltaics #SolarCanal #sustainability #resilience #waterConservation #climateCrisis
On what has generally been a cloudy day, with occasional breaks allowing the sun to shine onto our driveway, and even though our F3800 battery energy storage systems #BESS have reached the 20% charge level to be kept in reserve for a sudden outage, the single 400W portable photovoltaic panel is keeping the BESS topped off to the point where we aren’t using any energy from the grid. This is amazing to @czds and me. 1/3
#photovoltaics #homeBatterySystem #renewable #resilient #sustainable
#Zoomposium with #Christopher #Hebling: “#Hydrogen as a #solution—as an #energy source and #climate protector of the #future”
In this #interview from our #Energy and #Climate blog, Axel and I talk to German professor #ChristopherHebling, who, as Director of International Affairs at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, has been elected to the board of the Forum for Future Energies e.V.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/12/17/wasserstoff-als-loesung/
or: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6B7vIXtOuATDfm0VrrO0hm?si=Kh-1lPwsTuaiTroBvx5tRg
#Hydrogen #GreenHydrogen #EnergySupply #EnergyTransition #SolarEnergy #Photovoltaics #Decarbonization #ClimateChange #EnergyPolicy #FraunhoferISE #PowerToX #EFuels #DirectAirCapture #EnergyTrilemma #Sustainability # Climate protection #Climateneutrality #Mobilityofthefuture #Renewable energies #Energysecurity #Environmental compatibility #Economicefficiency #IPCC #Desertec #Methanol #Nuclearfusion #CO2reduction #Energyresearch #Futureenergy #Trinational Forum #Lithium #Fuelcell
Achievement unlocked: my #photovoltaics tinkering escalated to a point now where I get offered old modules for free 🌞
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The standard 2x1 #solar modules are the new tatami mats. Cheap, ubiquitous commodity.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/01/climate/pakistan-solar-boom
6/n The Anker Solix app does show some data, such as the amount of solar power being generated during the day. It’s easy to see where we adjusted the PV panels throughout the day. The peaks, at 250-270W, are where the panels are nicely lined up with the sun, shadow sharply straight behind the panels.
#SensAE #SmartHome #Photovoltaics #PV #Sustainability #Resilience #IoT #EV #BEV
5/n Screen capture of the Anker Solix app showing power going from the PV panels to the battery systems to the Home Power Panel to the house, with nothing coming from the grid. The app is a rudimentary #DigitalTwin the animation is somewhat informative. It can be disconcerting when the PV panel on the ground disappears when it’s too dark for it to generate any electricity
#SensAE #SmartHome #Photovoltaics #PV #Sustainability #Resilience #IoT
4/n The photovoltaic panel is more of a test. Is it really worth it where we live? The day it was delivered was cloudy and misting; we still got 100-200W from it. Today was bright and sunny, and we got 250-300W. Not bad from a panel rated at 400W.
#SensAE #SmartHome #Sustainability #Resilience #PV #photovoltaics
I moved my #DuckDB based #Photovoltaics notebook from #GitHub to #Codeberg…
Ist schon echt spannend, wenn man seine PV-Daten einfach mal in PowerBI auswertet und diese dann anfangen, Geschichten zu erzählen (wann lag Schnee, wann waren wir unterwegs, ...).
In dem Fall auch top, dass mein Anbieter mir Jahresreports als csv ausgibt für solche Spielereien) #data #powerbi #photovoltaics #photovoltaik
"Total weighted average efficiency of crystalline Silicon wafer-based [PV] modules is 22% in Q4-2024."
Ref: Fraunhofer #Photovoltaics Report, May 2025
Available: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/publications/studies/photovoltaics-report.html
If we consider degradation to 90% functionality as EOL, many of us should have been removed and replaced long ago. Me, for instance.
Anyway, here's a very nice explanation of how PV panels decline over time.
For my part I think that producing 9kW instead of 10kW is a feeble argument for the expense, hassle and especially footprint of replacement. Can"t squeeze 10% consumption reduction over the span of 20 years? What's the empirical record, outside of the AI Tulip Mania or other aberrations?
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/08/04/how-long-do-residential-solar-panels-last-3/
'Application Analysis of Photovoltaic Integrated Shading Devices Considering Indoor Environment and Energy Change in Green Buildings' - an article in the Journal of #GreenBuilding on #ScienceOpen:
🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=c12a5197-2d55-4d11-bfe4-a759f7b54c1c
#SustainableArchitecture #EnvironmentalEngineering #EnergyModeling #Photovoltaics
