Could hailstorms rain on Europe's booming solar industry?

James Murray
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Could hailstorms rain on Europe's booming solar industry?

Increase in incidence of hailstorms threatens to push up insurance costs for solar farms

It is one of the many ironies of the climate crisis that climate impacts pose a threat to the very technologies that are working to curb carbon emissions. Droughts lead to reduced hydropower and nuclear...

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