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Dover: Work starts to build energy efficient affordable housing • Mar. 1, 2025, 1:00 AM ET (BBC)
Solar panels are 1000 times more powerful with new tech breakthrough • Feb. 25, 2025, 9:40 PM ET (Earth.com)
Driver charged over fatal solar panel windscreen crash • Feb. 18, 2025, 2:44 AM ET (ABC News (Australia))

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Also Known As photovoltaic panel • PV panel

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The satellite's solar panels are arrays of solar cells that provide the electrical energy needed for its functions, the power being stored in batteries. Its antennas may be 8 ft (2.5 m) in diameter and may transmit wide-area-of-coverage beams or narrowly focused “spot” beams.
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