Sharing is power: do the neighbourly thing when it comes to solar
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 17-Aug-2025 05:11 ET (17-Aug-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)
New research has found that households with solar panels could boost their returns by selling surplus power directly to their neighbours, known as peer-to-peer (P2P) energy sharing, helping to stabilise the electricity grid and negotiating a better price than retailers currently offer.
Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working in collaboration with a team from the University of Texas at El Paso, have developed a novel computational framework for understanding how a region of the brain known as the striatum is involved in the everyday decisions we make and, importantly, how it might factor into impaired decision-making by individuals with psychiatric disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder.
In a new paper in the journal Science, researchers propose policies that would reward farmers for adopting “climate-smart” practices when growing biofuel crops and remove the hurdles that currently thwart such efforts. This could aid efforts to decarbonize agricultural as a whole, the scientists say.