Energy developer Invenergy is joining America’s race to build next-generation geothermal — and it plans to do so with the controversial new refund the Trump administration is giving it for abandoning offshore wind projects. On Wednesday, the Chicago-based company struck an agree … | Continue reading
Data centers are set to proliferate, and Duke Energy electric rates are poised to soar — and North Carolinians are mad about both. They’re packing public hearings to complain about their utility bills and passing moratoriums in their communities to stop construction of the ginorm … | Continue reading
When the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line started carrying electricity from Canada into Maine in January, supporters hailed the project as a triumph for renewable power. Now, after nearly six months of operations, the early numbers raise questions about whether … | Continue reading
Apartment and condo dwellers of New York have long been unable to tap solar power at home to lower their energy bills. But that could soon change. Late last month, state legislators passed the Solar Up Now New York (SUNNY) Act to legalize panels that plug into a standard outlet … | Continue reading
As spring gives way to summer, many parts of the U.S. are already feeling the heat. It’s a good moment to take stock of the energy breakthroughs that transpired this past “shoulder season.” That’s the period of time between the chill of winter and the high temperatures of July a … | Continue reading
Wind and solar developers in the U.S. have just a few more weeks to secure lucrative federal tax incentives. After that crucial deadline, the hard part begins. Last summer, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, creating a drop-dead date of July 4 … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The major players in AI want energy far faster than utilities can provide it — and that’s prompting them to explore some alternative approaches to powering data centers … | Continue reading
In the shadow of a wind turbine on a low rise just outside the western Minnesota town of Morris, a cluster of tanks, pipes, and sheds holds what some believe is the key to a more self-sufficient future for the region’s agriculture and heavy industry. When the wind is blowing — a … | Continue reading
This article is part of our “Chart of the Week” series . The U.S. just hit a big milestone: It got more power from solar panels than from coal plants in May. It’s the first time that has ever happened across an entire month, and all the more notable given the Trump administ … | Continue reading
Geothermal networks are taking off across the U.S., with roughly 30 such projects in various stages in Massachusetts, Colorado, and elsewhere. These systems — which use electric heat pumps and thermal energy from underground to warm and cool buildings — are key to weaning commun … | Continue reading
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee’s efforts to slash funding for energy efficiency and roll back renewable energy targets appear poised to fail after the legislature advanced the state budget on Tuesday evening. Earlier this year, McKee, a Democrat, proposed significant cuts to energy … | Continue reading
A power-hungry aluminum smelter planned in Oklahoma is facing a new legal challenge that aims to stop the massive project in its tracks. Last week, Oklahoma’s attorney general sued to block Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and Century Aluminum from building the $4 billion facilit … | Continue reading
A major grid-tech company is asking the Trump administration to fund a project it says could significantly boost the nation’s ability to move power around — without building a single new transmission tower or line. Open Access Technology International (OATI) is a Minneapolis-bas … | Continue reading
Qcells has officially begun commercial production of silicon solar cells at its factory in Cartersville, Georgia, the company said Tuesday. That factory is the largest of its kind in the country — and a long-awaited boost to the U.S. solar supply chain. For five years straight , … | Continue reading
At first glance, Frances Bell’s home in Oakland, California, doesn't look like a postcard from the EV-powered future. But if a new program takes off, it could be a harbinger of what’s possible for homes across the state and the country. Sure, there’s a shiny new Kia EV9 in the d … | Continue reading
North Carolina’s Republican-led House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill last week called the Ratepayer Protection Act, with backers saying it would reduce energy costs for families across the state. But Democrats and other critics of the legislation, Senate Bill 7 … | Continue reading
Last year, Marie Tai needed a better way to keep her condo cool. Her window air-conditioning units were borderline ineffective, even running at full blast. Summers have been getting more intense in Tai’s Boston neighborhood because of a rapidly warming climate, and she had just a … | Continue reading
For all the concern about lost federal funding courtesy of the Republican trifecta in Washington, Massachusetts still has not deployed a single electric vehicle charger through a Biden-era program that President Donald Trump has left intact. The Bay State is sitting on the rough … | Continue reading
On June 1, the Tumbleweed project in California’s Kern County became the first major battery installation in the U.S. that can discharge power for up to eight hours at a time — twice as long as typical energy-storage facilities. The U.S. power sector now builds more battery stor … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. New York City has a lot to celebrate this week. The Knicks are in the finals, the Mets actually won a game, and the city is now a big step closer to meeting its clean e … | Continue reading
This article is part of our “Chart of the Week” series . Electric vehicles may be struggling to find buyers in the U.S. — but they’re making inroads elsewhere. A record-breaking 28% of new cars sold this year will be battery-powered, according to new data from the Internati … | Continue reading
Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court blocked a permit for what would be the state’s largest solar installation. The 800-megawatt Oak Run Solar Project still has a pathway to completion — the court reversed only one part of the state siting board’s prior approval — but it remains unc … | Continue reading
Utilities have spent nearly $6 billion to install roughly 12 million smart meters at homes and businesses across PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. energy market. These devices are meant to help their customers use energy more efficiently and save money. But within much of PJ … | Continue reading
In July 2022, a fierce summer storm rocked Wake Electric , a North Carolina cooperative serving nearly 60,000 households and other customers from the dense suburbs of Raleigh, the state capital, to rural areas along the Virginia border and in the coastal plain. Wind downed lines … | Continue reading
The U.S. House just approved a bipartisan package of bills to accelerate geothermal energy as the nation clamors for more around-the-clock clean electricity. The Geothermal Energy Advancement Act, or H.R. 5631, passed with broad support on Tuesday. The legislation — led by U.S. … | Continue reading
After the school year ends in the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough, the district’s electric buses will mostly stay put in a parking lot. But they won’t sit idle all summer. The three vehicles will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the … | Continue reading
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter. Federal energy efficiency rebate programs will no longer cover a switch from fossil fuels to elec … | Continue reading
New York and six other Democratic-led states are challenging the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to pay private energy firms to abandon their U.S. offshore wind projects. On Tuesday, the coalition of blue states sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over its Marc … | Continue reading
As the U.S. looks to revive its stagnant nuclear industry, a group of companies is racing to realize the promise of a “meltdown-proof” fuel that for decades has struggled to progress beyond federal lab experiments. Tri-structural isotropic fuel, known as TRISO, is safer and more … | Continue reading
The Trump administration has spent the last year demanding that old, inefficient coal plants stay online long past their retirement dates. But one of those plants in Indiana hasn’t operated in months and won’t be able to until costly repairs are completed — undermining federal of … | Continue reading
The California Air Resources Board on Friday approved major changes to the state’s cap-and-invest program , including a controversial plan to allow polluting industries to earn free emissions allowances if they invest in decarbonizing their facilities — a move critics say could u … | Continue reading
Is Frito-Lay categorically refusing to buy potatoes grown on farmland that has hosted solar installations? No, the company says. That hasn't stopped lawmakers in Michigan and Pennsylvania from spreading the false claim about one of the biggest purchasers of potatoes in the count … | Continue reading
When Steve Ault got an offer about six years ago to lease a bit of his 100-acre family farm in Prince Edward County, Virginia, for solar panels, he let the letter sit on the kitchen table for a few days. Then he showed it to his wife, Chris. “Well, shoot,” she recalled telling h … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The 2026 election season is officially upon us, and with electricity prices on the rise, energy affordability is sure to factor into thousands of campaigns currently un … | Continue reading
This article is part of our “Chart of the Week” series . Once upon a time, Americans could get big federal tax incentives for buying electric vehicles, heat pumps, rooftop solar, and home batteries. But the Trump administration scrapped those tax breaks last year — and no cat … | Continue reading
Menards is a Midwest staple: The Wisconsin-based chain, known for its “Save BIG Money” slogan, is the nation’s third-largest home-improvement retail brand, behind Home Depot and Lowe’s. But in Illinois, it’s slowly becoming more than just a place for folks to pick up ceiling hook … | Continue reading
When a neighborhood-scale geothermal network came online in Framingham, Massachusetts, two years ago, it was hailed as groundbreaking. The first-of-its-kind system, owned by the state’s largest utility, Eversource, delivers warm and cool air to some 140 customers through pipes m … | Continue reading
A giant energy-storage project in South Dakota will soon turn cheap wind energy into clean industrial steam for a neighboring biofuels facility. The startup Antora Energy said it recently began booting up a 5-gigawatt-hour thermal energy storage system at Poet ’s ethanol-product … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s “ Electrified Life ” column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. A year ago, Crystal Bright was freaking out. The Charlotte, North Carolina–based interior desig … | Continue reading
Seven years ago, New York passed what leaders touted as one of the nation’s most ambitious climate laws. Now, the state has kneecapped it ahead of a crucial end-of-decade deadline. On Tuesday, the Democratic-controlled legislature approved a budget bill that effectively vaporize … | Continue reading
It’s set to be an abnormally hot summer this year — but the U.S. grid appears to be in decent shape to handle the heat. The credit goes to a boatload of new solar and storage and a handful of new gas plants. That’s the upshot of the new summer reliability assessment from the Nor … | Continue reading
Forrest Bagley was eager to dive into Illinois’ community solar market. The solar company he owns with his father and brother had successfully developed arrays in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and generous state incentives for community solar plus ample open land made Illi … | Continue reading
This story was originally published by Colorado Public Radio . Sign up for CPR’s weekly climate newsletter. DENVER — Like in many American cities, Denver's largest source of climate pollution is its buildings. Powering, heating, and cooling the city's skyscrapers takes a lot … | Continue reading
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column . April 2026: Remember the date for the energy-transition history books. It’s the first month when wind and solar combined to produce more electricity than natural gas did, per new global data from energy think tank Emb … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Two utility companies are headed for a megamerger — with dubious benefits to residential customers and clean energy. This week, Florida utility giant NextEra Energy — … | Continue reading
America’s ambitions to harness geothermal energy just keep getting bigger. On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of Mountain West governors unveiled an initiative to unlock an estimated 200 gigawatts of clean, always-on energy by tapping into the region’s underground heat. That much … | Continue reading
Photography by Anna Watts LOWELL, Vt. — Doug Manning built his three-story home for the views. Mountain peaks ring the 800-person town of Lowell, and just beyond his back porch stretches a hayfield that the community uses as a kind of public square. The 44-acre open space hosts … | Continue reading
One of the biggest knocks against renewables — their intermittency — could soon be defanged. As technology prices fall and industry prowess compounds, a new type of clean megaproject is starting to look not only possible but also economically attractive. These projects would loa … | Continue reading