Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"(arstechnica.com)

71 points by tambourine_man 6 months ago | 6 comments

US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year(arstechnica.com)

35 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 16 comments

40% of US electricity is now emissions-free(arstechnica.com)

103 points by MilnerRoute 2 years ago | 123 comments

US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it(electrek.co)

296 points by doener 9 months ago | 275 comments

Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US(arstechnica.com)

173 points by Jtsummers 1 year ago | 166 comments

Bipartisan consensus in favor of renewable power is ending(arstechnica.com)

3 points by LinuxBender 2 years ago | 0 comments

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time(theguardian.com)

402 points by neilfrndes 4 months ago | 193 comments

Guardian news article reporting that solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May, surpassing coal for the first time despite Trump administration support for coal.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time(pv-magazine.com)

624 points by xbmcuser 9 days ago | 390 comments

pv magazine article reporting that global solar generation surpassed nuclear for the first time in 2025, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2026.

Can solar costs keep shrinking?(unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)

370 points by GoRudy 2 years ago | 557 comments

Tomas Pueyo's Uncharted Territories newsletter post examining whether solar photovoltaic panel costs can continue to decline.

In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels(e360.yale.edu)

656 points by speckx 9 months ago | 676 comments

Yale Environment 360 digest article reporting that wind and solar power generated more electricity than fossil fuels in Europe.

Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark(gamingonlinux.com)

657 points by haunter 11 months ago | 386 comments

GamingOnLinux article reporting that Linux reached 3.05% of Steam users in the October 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.