The exponential growth of solar power will change the world(economist.com)

26 points by doener 2 years ago | 34 comments

Future gigantic solar farms might impact solar power elsewhere in the world(techxplore.com)

59 points by gumby 2 years ago | 76 comments

'Unstoppable force' of solar power propels world to 40% clean electricity(news.sky.com)

138 points by belter 1 year ago | 122 comments

Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%(electrek.co)

244 points by toomuchtodo 1 year ago | 200 comments

China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country(economist.com)

48 points by WhereIsTheTruth 2 years ago | 39 comments

Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge(bloomberg.com)

52 points by rustoo 6 months ago | 57 comments

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.

EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy(weplanet.org)

942 points by mpweiher 1 year ago | 948 comments

A WePlanet blog post reporting that an EU court ruled nuclear energy counts as clean energy.

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.

Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants(bbc.com)

365 points by lukaspetersson 1 month ago | 326 comments

BBC News article reporting that Google has picked Finland for its largest single investment in Europe, tied to buying nuclear power for data centres.

The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s(ourworldindata.org)

386 points by karakoram 13 days ago | 634 comments

An Our World in Data insight by Hannah Ritchie showing UK electricity generation per person has fallen by a third since its 2003 peak, below 1970s levels.

Solarpunk is happening in Africa(climatedrift.substack.com)

1103 points by JoiDegn 11 months ago | 536 comments

A Climate Drift Substack essay arguing that Africa is building a solarpunk future by leapfrogging legacy energy infrastructure with distributed solar.