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The state aims to expand its capacity by 8,923 MW over the next five years. Solar power in New York now supplies electricity to 980,034 homes, accounting for 5.01% of the state's total electricity. With a solar market valued at $11.7 billion and $1.9 billion invested in 2023, solar costs in New York have decreased by 47% in the last decade. [9]
January 1 – Ten people are wounded in a shooting at a memorial outside a nightclub in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York. [1]January 5 – New York City enacts a congestion charge for vehicles entering Lower and Midtown Manhattan below 60th Street, becoming the first city in the United States to do so.
One of the first applications of concentrated solar was the 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) solar powered motor made by H.E. Willsie and John Boyle in 1904. [112] An early solar pioneer of the 19th and 20th century, Frank Shuman, built a demonstration plant that used solar power to pump water using an array of mirrors in a trough to generate steam.
2025 federal holidays New Year's Day - Wednesday, Jan. 1Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Monday, Jan. 20Washington's Birthday / Presidents Day - Monday, Feb. 17Memorial Day - Monday, May 26 Juneteenth ...
This week, a solar storm caused large explosions of solar plasma and magnetic energy from the surface of the sun into space — an event known as a coronal mass ejection.
First Solar (FSLR) announced a $1.2 billion investment into expanding its factory footprint in the U.S., providing a tailwind to President Biden’s push to accelerate domestic manufacturing and ...
In 2009, First Solar became the first solar panel manufacturing company to lower its manufacturing cost to $1 per watt. [4] As of 2022, First Solar was considered the fourth-largest solar company on American stock exchanges by 12-month trailing revenue [5] and in 2012 was ranked sixth in Fast Company's list of the world's 50 most innovative ...
The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel predicted in December 2019 [11] that solar cycle 25 will be similar to solar cycle 24, with the preceding solar cycle minimum in April 2020 (± 6 months), and the number of sunspots reaching a (smoothed) maximum of 115 in July 2025 (± 8 months).