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Onyx Solar has launched new walkable solar tiles for floors, suitable for terraces, sidewalks, and patios. The company has supplied photovoltaic panels to Apple and Spanish institutions including Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences.

InfoLink reports record battery shipments of 202.3 GWh in first three quarters of 2024, with CATL leading the market. Commercial-scale storage dominates with 180 GWh shipments.

Japan's METI has announced plans to deploy 20 GW of perovskite solar cell systems by 2040 and support Japanese manufacturers in producing perovskite solar module technologies.

Scientists at Goethe University in Germany are researching molecular solar thermal energy storage using synthetic molecules. Project runs 2023-2027 with €4.8M funding from German Research Foundation.

221 fossil fuel and petrochemical industry representatives have registered for UN plastic pollution treaty talks (INC-5) in Busan, making up 6% of attendees, as nations attempt to agree on plastic production curbs.

GAIL has re-engaged INEOS to revive a 1.25 million tonnes per annum PTA manufacturing plant in Mangalore SEZ through its subsidiary GAIL Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited.

Researchers at Jilin University have developed a stretchable, self-healing lithium-ion battery using polymer molecules with imine bonds, demonstrating potential for wearable electronics applications.

Stegra and Uniper have signed a 6-year PPA for 6TWh of electricity to power Stegra's Boden green steel plant in Sweden, which will produce green hydrogen and steel from 2027.

University of York researchers have found that DNAN, a TNT replacement in explosives, is more harmful to plants and persists longer in plant tissues, raising environmental contamination concerns.