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News Articles: solar panels

Ewes and lambs stand inside of a pen in the Silicon Ranch lambing barn on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, at Houston Solar Project in Elko, Georgia. The lambing barn, which finished in late 2023, currently holds hundreds of sheep and lambs, which are monitored, recorded and then released out to the pasture. Silicon Ranch breeds its own sheep to enhance parasite resistance and to adapt to the climate in the southeast. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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  • Energy

Why 1,000 sheep graze this Houston County solar farm, and why it helps economy

The Houston Solar Project is a 68-megawatt, 705-acre solar farm that is also home to Katahdin sheep.

February 19, 2025
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  • Margaret Walker
Keith Plume of PayneCrest Electric Company checks that solar panels are lined up correctly at the Ameren O’Fallon Renewable Energy Center in O’Fallon, Missouri on Sept. 18, 2014. Georgia is among the nation’s leaders for solar manufacturing this year. Bill Greenblatt UPI

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‘Stepping up.’ Georgia ranks among the best in U.S. for building, installing solar panels

A report released last week ranks Georgia second among all states for most solar manufacturing, representing 21% of the U.S. market.

December 11, 2024
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  • Margaret Walker
The solar array on the rooftop of a Boston Medical Center building provides power for the building as well as credits for the Clean Power Prescription program.

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  • Health

Why these doctors started writing medical 'prescriptions' for solar power

Doctors in Boston got tired of writing letters to power companies asking them to help vulnerable patients. Then they realized the solar panels on the hospital roof might offer a solution.

December 09, 2024
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  • Martha Bebinger
Hurricane Helene dropped more than 2 feet of rain on Spruce Pine, N.C. The town is home to one of the world's only sources of high-purity quartz, which is used to manufacture silicon chips and solar panels.

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  • National

A tiny town just got slammed by Helene. It could massively disrupt the tech industry

Spruce Pine is a major global supplier of high-purity quartz. It’s an essential ingredient for microchips and solar panels.

October 01, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel,
  • Scott Neuman,
  • and 1 more
Solar panels. (Pexels)

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Spread of solar farms in Georgia about to get legislative scrutiny

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with eight million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.

June 17, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
An employee works on a solar panel inside the Hanwha Qcells Solar plant, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, in Dalton, Ga. The Korean company is opening what it says is the first solar panel factory to begin production in the U.S. since the passage of President Joe Biden’s signature climate legislation.

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  • News

Major solar panel plant opens in US amid backdrop of industry worries about low-priced Asian imports

A South Korean company has begun production at a huge solar panel factory in Georgia. The move by the company Qcells comes even as industry leaders say surging Asian imports could dampen efforts to make more solar components in the U.S.

October 18, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Suniva is restarting a Gwinnett County plant. The first phase of the expansion will create up to 240 jobs and increase the plant’s manufacturing capacity to 1 gigawatt, enough to power 750,000 homes.

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  • Economy

Suniva to restart solar cell plant in Gwinnett County

A U.S. solar cell manufacturer that went bankrupt six years ago announced Wednesday it is restarting its manufacturing plant in Norcross.

October 11, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Workers install solar panels on a rooftop at AltaSea's research and development facility at the Port of Los Angeles on April 21, 2023.

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  • Politics

The U.S. imports most of its solar panels. A new ruling may make that more expensive

The Commerce Department says solar panel makers in four Southeast Asian countries are evading U.S. duties on Chinese solar components. The finding could raise costs in the United States.

August 18, 2023
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  • Eric McDaniel
Solar panels on rooftops of a housing development in Folsom, Calif., Feb. 12, 2020.

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  • News

Georgia lawmakers seek to regulate solar panel installers

Georgia House members are looking to regulate the installation of rooftop solar panels, saying some companies are ripping off consumers. The House Energy, Telecommunications and Utilities Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to advance a bill that would require companies that install panels at residences to be certified by the state Public Service Commission and make certain disclosures to consumers.

February 08, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A Generic Photo of Solar Panels (wide-shot)

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Kemp announces solar panel deal; Abrams' future; Biden's classified documents

Wednesday on Political Rewind: A Korean solar panel manufacturer will open a $2.5 billion plant near Cartersville, adding to the list of clean energy businesses in Georgia. Stacey Abrams says she'll run for public office again on a talk show appearance. And we discuss classified documents in Biden's office.

January 11, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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A worker walks past lines of solar panels at the Roha Dyechem solar project in the western northwest Indian state of Rajasthan.

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  • Asia

'Sunny Makes Money': India installs a record volume of solar power in 2022

India, on track to become the world's most populous country, gets about 70% of its electricity from coal. But the government is aggressively investing in renewable energy — particularly solar.

November 22, 2022
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  • Lauren Frayer
Vinisha Umashankar and her solar ironing cart. She came up with the idea when she was 12 — then worked with engineers to create a prototype. Now she's in Glasgow, Scotland, to speak at the COP26 climate change conference.

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  • Climate

A 15-year-old girl invented a solar ironing cart that's winning global respect

Vinisha Umashankar came up with the idea of solar power instead of charcoal to heat street irons. "Iron-Max" was a finalist for Prince William's Earthshot Prize, and this week, she spoke at COP26.

November 03, 2021
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  • Sushmita Pathak

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