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24/09/2026

California's solar boom has pushed the state's electricity system into territory that was almost unimaginable a decade ago. In May 2026, solar supplied more than half of California's electricity for the month, demonstrating how quickly large-scale solar farms and rooftop systems have transformed the state's power mix.

California now has tens of gigawatts of installed solar capacity, and during sunny afternoons solar generation can exceed total demand, sometimes forcing the grid to export electricity or use batteries to shift the surplus into the evening.

The milestone is particularly significant because California's electricity demand is enormous, while its grid must simultaneously balance solar, wind, natural gas, hydroelectricity, batteries and imports. The challenge now is not simply producing solar power—but storing and delivering it after the sun goes down.

Source: California Energy Commission / CAISO, 2026

16/09/2026

'Australia is the world’s largest diesel importer and uses more diesel per person than any other major economy. That creates a very large exposure to global diesel markets.

The transition to renewables isn't just about cheaper, cleaner energy – it's about resilience and independence. Here's the basic calculation:

➡️ A shipload contains about 1 GW of solar panels. At a 22% capacity factor, those panels will generate about 1.9 TWh per year.
➡️ At 1.9 kWh/km that's enough to power electric trucks around 1 billion kms.
➡️ To move diesel trucks the same distance, at 53 L/100 km, would require about 530 million litres of diesel, or over 10 tanker loads.

But that's just one year. The solar panels will keep generating for 25 years.

So that single shipload of solar panels can power electric trucks as far as roughly 250 tanker loads of diesel could fuel diesel trucks.

Let's bring this back to Australia.

Australia consumes around 4 billion litres of diesel per year for long-distance heavy trucking. That's 80 tankers of imported diesel every year, or 2,000 tanker loads over 25 years.

If we electrified those trucks then we'd need just 8 shiploads of solar panels - about 8 GW - to power them all for 25 years.

The key point is not just that electric trucks are far more efficient than diesel trucks.

It's that once you've burned diesel, it's gone. You need to pay for more, import more and expose yourself to whatever is happening in global fuel markets.

A solar panel is different. Once it's bought and installed, it keeps producing electricity for decades.

That is why electric trucks are not just cleaner trucks. They turn a recurring fuel import bill into domestic energy infrastructure.

And with battery-electric trucks now reaching heavy-duty freight routes, this seems likely to happen faster than many people expected.'

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16/09/2026

Australia just deployed the world's first grid battery made from aluminium-air chemistry — a 50-megawatt-hour installation in Western Australia that uses aluminium plates as the anode material, atmospheric oxygen as the cathode reactant, and produces electricity while converting aluminium to aluminium oxide at a cost of $8 per kilowatt-hour of stored energy — the lowest storage cost of any battery chemistry ever commercially deployed.

The Alsym Energy Western Australia Aluminium-Air Grid Storage Project, developed by Alsym Energy at the Kwinana industrial precinct south of Perth, uses aluminium ingots — produced from Western Australia's bauxite using hydropower from the Ord River scheme — as the consumable anode material in a flow battery architecture where aluminium is dissolved during discharge, producing electricity and aluminium oxide as the only byproduct. The aluminium oxide is collected, returned to the Kwinana aluminium refinery for conversion back to aluminium using renewable electricity, and reused as fresh anode material in the next discharge cycle.

The $8 per kilowatt-hour cost is achievable because aluminium's energy content — 8.1 kilowatt-hours per kilogram — is 10 times higher than lithium-ion's 0.7 to 0.8 kilowatt-hours per kilogram of total battery weight, and aluminium's material cost is $2 per kilogram compared to lithium battery cell costs of $120 to $150 per kilowatt-hour of capacity. The gap between aluminium's theoretical energy density and lithium-ion's practical energy density in battery systems produces a storage cost advantage that no competing chemistry currently approaches.

Australia produces 30% of the world's bauxite. Its storage battery is its own resource.

Source: Alsym Energy & Kwinana Industries Council, 2024

10/09/2026

India is building solar panels on the rooftops of its temples — and the spiritual significance of powering places of worship with sunlight has made rooftop solar adoption a cultural movement in states where 400,000 temples, mosques, churches, and gurudwaras are generating electricity from the same sun that their congregations have worshipped for millennia.

The Surya Shakti programme in Tamil Nadu — surya means sun in Sanskrit, shakti means power — targets every registered religious institution in the state for solar installation at subsidised cost. The programme draws explicitly on Hinduism's solar reverence — Surya, the sun god, is among the most ancient deities in the Vedic tradition — making solar panel installation an act of devotion as much as an energy decision.

60,000 Tamil Nadu temples have been connected to rooftop solar under the programme, with the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai — one of India's most visited religious sites attracting 20,000 devotees daily — serving as the flagship installation. The temple's 3 MW rooftop solar system generates enough electricity to power all temple operations and sell surplus to the Tamil Nadu grid, with the temple receiving grid sales revenue of INR 1.8 crore annually that reduces its dependence on religious trust donations for maintenance.

The cultural resonance has driven voluntary adoption beyond subsidised installations. Community-funded solar projects — financed by congregations, trusts, and devotees — have added another 40,000 religious institution installations across India's southern states.

India worships the sun. Its temples are finally generating electricity from it.

Source: Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) & Ministry of New and Renewable Energy India, Religious Institution Solar Programme Report 2024

10/09/2026

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is leading the transformation to a clean energy economy. Learn more at seia.org

10/09/2026

Japan has deployed solar panels on its bullet train maintenance depots — the vast covered facilities where Shinkansen trains sleep between service runs — and the combination of roof area, electricity demand, and existing grid infrastructure has made railway maintenance depots the most cost-effective solar deployment category in Japan's entire clean energy programme.

Japan's Shinkansen maintenance network includes 15 major depot facilities scattered along the 3,041-kilometre high-speed rail network, each covering 10 to 50 hectares of roofed shed space housing the trainsets during overnight maintenance. The combination of enormous roof area, 24-hour electricity demand for maintenance equipment and lighting, and direct grid connection through the railway's own dedicated power network makes these facilities ideal solar deployment targets.

JR Central and JR East have jointly commissioned 180 MW of rooftop solar across their combined Shinkansen depot network, with the Hamamatsu Shinkansen maintenance depot — the largest in Japan at 47 hectares — contributing 65 MW from its covered workshop rooftops. The depot's electricity self-consumption from rooftop solar covers 42% of its total annual electricity use — the maintenance lighting, electric tools, wheel truing machines, and train system diagnostics that consume electricity around the clock.

The electricity cost saving at Hamamatsu alone — JPY 650 million annually at Tokyo Electric Power rates — recovers the installation cost in 9 years. The remaining 16 years of panel lifespan generate JPY 650 million annually in net income to JR Central's operating budget.

Japan's fastest trains sleep under solar panels. The maintenance that keeps them fast is now partly powered by sunlight.

Source: JR Central & JR East, Shinkansen Maintenance Depot Solar Programme Report 2024

10/09/2026

Solar parking canopies turn otherwise unused space above parking areas into dual-purpose infrastructure. Instead of taking additional land for a solar farm, panels are installed over existing parking spaces—producing electricity while providing shade that can keep vehicles cooler and protect them from sun, rain and snow.

The electricity can be used directly by nearby buildings, parking-lot lighting and EV chargers, reducing the amount of power that needs to come from the grid. Large parking lots can also provide substantial solar capacity because the panels cover space that is already developed rather than clearing new land. When paired with batteries, excess daytime generation can be stored and used later, helping the system provide power beyond peak sunlight hours.

As EV adoption grows, solar canopies are becoming particularly attractive because the parking space itself becomes part of the charging infrastructure—cars park underneath the panels while the same site generates clean electricity for charging.

Source: U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

10/09/2026

Spain has created the world's first solar-powered desalination network — connecting 12 large-scale reverse osmosis desalination plants along its Mediterranean coast to dedicated solar installations, eliminating the fossil fuel electricity that has powered Spanish water production for 30 years and turning water scarcity into a renewable energy opportunity.

Spain is Europe's most water-stressed major economy. Mediterranean agriculture, tourism, and urban growth in Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, and Andalucia have exhausted conventional freshwater sources — rivers, aquifers, and rainfall — that sustained Spanish civilization for millennia. Desalination has filled the gap since the 1990s, but the enormous electricity demand of reverse osmosis — approximately 3 kilowatt-hours per cubic metre of water produced — made desalinated water expensive and carbon-intensive.

The Solar Desalination Programme connects Spain's Torrevieja desalination plant — the largest in Europe at 80,000 cubic metres daily — to a dedicated 120 MW solar installation in the adjacent Alicante salt flats, eliminating 350 GWh of annual grid electricity consumption that previously came from natural gas. The Javea and Denia plants on the Costa Blanca follow the same model with collocated solar eliminating diesel backup generation costs.

The water-energy nexus creates a unique optimization opportunity: desalination runs at maximum capacity during solar peak hours, storing water in distribution reservoirs rather than storing electricity in batteries. Water is the storage medium. The reservoir is the battery. The operational cost falls by 60% when solar eliminates the electricity tariff.

Spain is turning Mediterranean sunshine into Mediterranean water. The most natural transformation imaginable.

Source: Agencia Espanola de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricion & Red Electrica de Espana, Solar Desalination Programme Report 2024

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