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The company’s Cartersville, Georgia, factory is the largest of its kind in the nation — and it just started producing the key solar panel component.
Can electric vehicles finally start working as backup batteries for homes and the grid? This 120-home pilot project in California is working out the kinks.
The Republican-backed house passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, which could rein in some data center costs but extend the life of costly old coal plants.
Bulk buying is a tried-and-true way to get discounts on rooftop solar. Now programs aimed at heat pumps are popping up too, helping people save thousands…
Despite the state’s political embrace of EVs, it has built zero chargers nearly four years after receiving federal funds from the Biden administration.
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of what’s to…
Eastside Community Network helped Meghan Richards find assistance after historic rainfall flooded her basement. Now she’s helping ECN organize resilience…
With fire risk on the rise and neglected utility equipment sparking more deadly conflagrations, all electricity customers may be left holding the bag.
A proposal to drastically cut solar’s value for apartments, schools and farms could undermine California’s climate and energy equity pledges, opponents…
Advocates say it’s a great first step, but more needs to be done.
RGGI has helped boost climate resilience and cut emissions in the state, but its Republican governor wants to leave the program. Activists aren’t sure he…
The Gulf Coast states could be global leaders in offshore wind, writes guest commentator David Wooley.
A proposed fertilizer plant in Indiana, backed by millions in federal incentives, would pump CO2 under farmland miles away.
Startup Pivot Bio has developed a smarter way to get nitrogen to crops, and it has a new CEO who aims to supercharge growth.
The region's first-ever lease sale arrived at a time of industry turmoil, and in a place saddled with unique obstacles to offshore wind development.
Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video game Loftia, set in a renewables-powered utopia that celebrates community and climate optimism.
Buckeye Power could save big bucks for customers of Ohio’s rural electric cooperatives if it gets federal funding to replace some or all of its coal plant…
The startup founded by Tesla alum JB Straubel wants to spend $7 billion on recycling to supply a U.S. battery industry now dependent on China.
Select customers now have the power to participate in Texas energy markets with their own devices — and to get paid for doing so.
The lights stayed on, but the state's experience offers some lessons on what can go wrong in the transition to clean energy.
Lawmakers and advocates call on state legislators to reconsider a 2016 law that replaced net metering with more restrictive options.
Long-duration energy storage is a tough business, but it's vital to decarbonizing the grid. Eos thinks its zinc-based batteries are the best candidate for…
A new report says that ongoing improvements in solar and wind tech will keep driving steep cost declines that make them even more competitive against…
The Biden administration announced the funding amid auto workers’ concerns that shifting to electric cars could cut jobs from traditional manufacturing…
In 2022, there were more than 13,000 customers with residential solar in the Idaho Power system.
Take your pick from this wide-ranging roundup of recent climate-related nonfiction, memoirs, novels and histories.
A few years ago, Impossible and Beyond burgers were all the rage. Now, the industry may have to reinvent itself.
Α broad and unlikely coalition has united behind a proposal that would finally let community solar flourish in California. Utilities are trying to stop it.
Thermo King has made diesel-powered machinery for decades. But once it pivoted to electrified products, it needed to retrain its workers — fast.
Massachusetts-based Lydian is the latest startup to raise funds to produce power-to-liquids fuels, which could emit less CO2 overall than fossil jet fuel.
