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SolarCity

SolarCity was an American solar energy company founded in 2006 by brothers Lyndon and Peter Rive; it pioneered solar leasing and was acquired by Tesla in 2016.

SolarEdge Technologies

SolarEdge Technologies is an Israeli smart energy company founded in Herzliya in 2006 that makes DC-optimized solar inverters, power optimizers, batteries, and EV chargers, shipped to 145 countries.

Solarex

Solarex was an American photovoltaic manufacturer founded in Rockville, Maryland in 1973 by former COMSAT engineers Joseph Lindmayer and Peter Varadi, absorbed into BP Solar in 1999.

Solaria

Solaria was a Florentine literary magazine founded in January 1926 by Alberto Carocci, judged the strongest interwar Italian journal in introducing European modernism to Italian readers.

Solaris

Solaris is an AI interface world model announced by Runway on August 31, 2026, which generates interactive apps and websites directly as video, frame by frame, rather than code.

Solaris (2002 film)

Solaris is a 2002 American science fiction drama directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney as a psychologist sent to a research station orbiting the planet Solaris.

Solaris (fictional planet)

Solaris is the fictional planet in Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, covered by a sentient ocean orbiting a binary star in Aquarius; humans study it for a century (Solaristics) without achieving Contact, and it was filmed in 1968, 1972 (Tarkovsky), and 2002.

Solaris (novel)

Solaris is a 1961 Polish science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, first published by Wydawnictwo MON. Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a station above a sentient ocean that creates human replicas from memories; known for its unknowable-alien theme, indirect 1970 English translation, 2011 Johnston translation, and Tarkovsky and Soderbergh films.

Solaris (Солярис) (1972 film)

Solaris (Солярис) is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 Mosfilm science fiction drama adapted from Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel, starring Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk; it won the 1972 Cannes Grand Prix and is known for Lem's disapproval and its contrast with Kubrick's 2001.

Solaris Bus & Coach

Solaris Bus & Coach is a Polish bus and trolleybus manufacturer based in Bolechowo near Poznań, founded in 1996 and owned by Spain's CAF group since 2018.

Solaris Energy Infrastructure

Solaris Energy Infrastructure is a Houston, Texas company, founded in 2014 and traded on the NYSE as SEI, that provides mobile power generation and oilfield logistics equipment.

Solaris Resources Inc.

Solaris Resources Inc. is a Canadian copper exploration and development company, spun out of Equinox Gold in 2018, whose flagship asset is the Warintza copper-gold project in southeastern Ecuador.

Solaris SE

Solaris SE, formerly Solarisbank AG, is a Berlin-based German fintech with a full banking license that provides banking-as-a-service through APIs, founded in 2015 and majority-owned by Japan's SBI Group.

Solaris Tour

Solaris Tour: Joji's 2026 Live Nation-promoted global arena tour supporting Piss In The Wind, running June 16 to November 29, 2026 across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, about 38 dates.

SolarMente

SolarMente was a Barcelona-based residential solar and home-electrification subscription company founded by Wouter Draijer and Victor Gardrinier, backed by Y Combinator and Leonardo DiCaprio, which entered liquidation in 2026.

SolarPower Europe

SolarPower Europe, formerly the European Photovoltaic Industry Association, is a Brussels-based trade association with more than 300 members, founded in 1985 and renamed in 2015.

Solarpunk

Solarpunk is a science fiction subgenre, aesthetic, and social movement envisioning sustainable futures where renewable energy and green technology operate in harmony with nature, rejecting dystopian pessimism.

SolarSquare

SolarSquare is a Mumbai-headquartered residential rooftop solar company founded in 2015 by Shreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain, and Nikhil Nahar, serving nearly 50,000 homes across 29 Indian cities.

SolarWinds

SolarWinds is a Delaware-incorporated IT management and observability software company with over 300,000 customers, whose Orion Platform was the target of the 2020 SUNBURST supply-chain breach.

SolarWinds hack

The SolarWinds hack was a software supply-chain attack disclosed in December 2020, in which a backdoor in Orion updates reached US federal agencies and about 100 companies.

SolarWorld

SolarWorld AG was a German photovoltaic manufacturer headquartered in Bonn, founded in 1998, that led trade complaints against Chinese panel imports and filed for insolvency in 2017.

Solas

Solas is a 1999 Spanish drama, Benito Zambrano's debut feature, starring María Galiana, Ana Fernández, and Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa as a mother, daughter, and widowed neighbor in Seville. It won the 1999 Berlin Panorama Audience Award and five Goyas from eleven nominations.

SOLAS Convention

The SOLAS Convention (Safety of Life at Sea) is the international treaty setting minimum safety standards for merchant ships, adopted in 1974 and administered by the IMO.

Solasta II

Solasta II is Tactical Adventures' turn-based tactical RPG sequel to Solasta: Crown of the Magister, built on the D&D SRD 5.2 (2024) ruleset, set in Neokos, in Steam Early Access since March 12, 2026 with co-op multiplayer and the Warlock added in September 2026.

Solatio Energia

Solatio Energia is a Spanish developer and investor in large-scale photovoltaic power plants that has operated in Brazil since around 2009, with over 20 GWp of projects developed and a green hydrogen venture in Piauí.

Solazyme

Solazyme was an American biotechnology company founded in 2003 in South San Francisco that grew microalgae in fermentation tanks to make tailored oils, proteins, and food ingredients.

Solberg Inlet

Solberg Inlet (索爾伯格灣), Antarctic Peninsula inlet, ice-filled, 5-10 nmi wide, receding west 14 nmi between Rock Pile Peaks and Joerg Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land, near 68.3°S 65.2°W.

Sold Out on You (오늘도 매진했습니다)

Sold Out on You (오늘도 매진했습니다) is a 2026 SBS Wednesday-Thursday romantic comedy, 12 episodes, starring Ahn Hyo-seop as farmer Matthew Lee and Chae Won-bin as home-shopping host Dam Ye-jin; it topped Netflix's global non-English chart in its first week.

Soldano Ferrone

Soldano Ferrone (1940–2023) was an Italian-born immunologist and cancer immunotherapy researcher who developed monoclonal antibodies to HLA and melanoma antigens and showed how tumors escape immunity.

Solder

Solder is a fusible metal alloy, usually tin-based, melted below 450 °C to join metals without melting them; the eutectic 63Sn-37Pb alloy was long standard in electronics.