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MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter digest teases its 'Impossible issue' reality check on six overhyped technologies, reflects on the Theranos documentary's lessons for biotech scrutiny, and aggregates the day's headlines — led by Palmer Luckey's Warhound raising $200M from Sequoia for genetically enhanced military dogs and Moderna/Merck's mRNA cancer vaccine cutting melanoma recurrence risk by 42%.
A California energy newsletter column contrasts incumbent utility- and vendor-run virtual power plants (Sunrun, Tesla) with a radical new participant-driven VPP model, framing the open business-model question of who captures value from aggregated distributed energy resources.
A pv magazine teaser arguing that India's maturing solar manufacturing sector will be judged on module quality, sustained energy yield, and lifecycle costs rather than raw capacity additions and headline module prices.
Zambia's Ministry of Energy reports installed solar capacity surpassed 1 GW, up from 178 MW in 2024 — a roughly 5x jump, but the article provides no analysis of what drove it.
Atlantic Council experts argue that PJM's capacity price spikes reflect a market-design flaw — excessive drift toward spot-price dependence — rather than proof that competition in wholesale power markets has failed.
Speakers at the AgriVoltaics Industry Forum Europe 2026 warn that rising interest rates, uncertain electricity revenues, and the need to keep farms economically viable are making agrivoltaic projects harder to finance, prompting calls for new financing models.
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