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October 4, 2023

DEWA 700 MW CSP project caps 200 MW more Trough

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned the second 200 megawatt (MW) unit of the parabolic trough complex in the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The first parabolic trough unit and the Tower CSP project are already complete. 700 MW of CSP The 4th phase of the Solar …

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October 4, 2023

Kuwait’s RFP for 200 MW of CSP has begun

The long delayed Shagaya solar project is finally underway. Kuwait already has one 50 MW CSP project, which has been in operation since 2019. Now it has begun the bidding for an additional 200 MW of CSP. [See SolarPACES-NREL full technical details of Kuwait’s first CSP project 50 MW of Trough CSP] Kuwait is set …

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October 4, 2023

700 MW CSP project caps 200 MW more Trough

IMAGE@MASEN The 200 MW of trough CSP now being commissioned in the 700 MW DEWA CSP project follows the 100 MW Tower CSP complex already online Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned the second 200 megawatt (MW) unit of the parabolic trough complex in the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin …

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Margaret Hamilton popularized the term ‘software engineering’ while leading nearly 100 developers on Apollo, partly to win respect for a discipline so new it was not yet a recognised field when her team’s code helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon September 21, 2026
Margaret Hamilton was 32 and running a team of nearly 100 developers at MIT when she coined the phrase 'software engineering' — half as a joke, half as a demand for respect. Six weeks later, her team's code became the first ever to run on the Moon. The post Margaret Hamilton popularized the term ‘software […]
How did a Sahel nation facing advancing desert regrow roughly 5 million hectares of trees on farmland by changing one rule about who owns the seedlings sprouting in a farmer’s field? September 21, 2026
Over two decades, roughly 5 million hectares of Niger's degraded farmland regrew an estimated 200 million trees — not through planting, but through a change in who legally owns a sprout in a farmer's field. The post How did a Sahel nation facing advancing desert regrow roughly 5 million hectares of trees on farmland by […]
Every normally sighted human eye has a blind spot about as wide as three small coins held side by side at arm’s length, created where the optic nerve exits the retina and leaves no photoreceptors, and the brain quietly paints over the gap using whatever pattern surrounds it September 21, 2026
Every human eye has a permanent blind spot where the optic nerve exits the retina, roughly the size of a small coin at arm's length. The brain hides it by painting in whatever pattern surrounds the gap — a trick so seamless it is now being used to test theories of consciousness. The post Every […]

PowerBank completes 3-MW New York community solar project November 3, 2026
Renewable energy developer PowerBank has completed the 3.26-MW Camillus community solar project in Camillus, New York, and has received permission to operate. Solar Advocate Development, LLC, the project’s owner and EPC, built the array on a capped landfill, which it acquired from PowerBank in spring 2025 in a $7.3 million transaction. “A closed landfill is… […]
Participation in Sunrun’s Puerto Rico VPP program doubled in 2026 November 3, 2026
Sunrun announced that participation in its Puerto Rico distributed power plant has doubled to more than 60,000 customers, representing nearly 70,000 home batteries. The distributed power plant frequently and reliably delivers 45 MW of dispatchable power for four hours at a time, providing critical support to Puerto Rico’s electric grid. Since April, Sunrun has dispatched… […]
Illinois community solar farm will produce renewable energy and hay November 3, 2026
Lightstar Renewables, a community solar solar developer specializing in agrivoltaics and battery energy storage, and the Paxton City Council are collaborating on a 4.95-MWAC community solar project on approximately 35 acres of privately owned land in Paxton, Illinois. The Baltimore Drive Solar Project will co-locate hay growing and a community solar project on the same… […]