The Department of Energy has closed a $1.6 billion loan guarantee for transmission upgrades in the middle of the country — a move that comes as the Trump administration slashes funding for other grid improvements, including a separate transmission megaproject in the Midwest. The … | Continue reading
Roasting coffee requires high temperatures — up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit for as much as 20 minutes per batch. Today, the vast majority of that heat is generated by fossil fuels. Most of the world’s coffee is roasted in gas-burning machines that emit carbon dioxide and require el … | Continue reading
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . During a recent visit to a Long Island power station, U.S. Department of Energy Secreta … | Continue reading
A new law in Ohio will fast-track energy projects in places that are hard to argue with: former coal mines and brownfields. But how much the legislation benefits clean energy will depend on the final rules for its implementation, which the state is working out now. House Bill 1 … | Continue reading
LOVELAND, Colo. — For a moment, I held in my hand the cool heart of a heat pump. I was standing inside the cavernous facility where the startup AtmosZero is building its novel steam-producing heat pumps. The all-electric technology is meant to replace the gas-burning boilers tha … | Continue reading
More than a decade ago, residents of Loudoun County, Virginia, banded together to buy up treasured open space before it became a strip mall and housing development, donating the land to the Piedmont Environmental Council instead. The nonprofit has maintained it as a unique blend … | Continue reading
Boston is racing to decarbonize its public housing by 2030. The latest tool it's deploying to reach that goal? Window-straddling heat pumps. Last week, the Boston Housing Authority announced that it's piloting the electric technology at Hassan Apartments, a 50-year-old public ho … | Continue reading
An enormous solar project planned for the Nevada desert was canceled last week while awaiting final federal approvals, an ominous sign for renewables development on public lands under the Trump administration. Esmeralda 7 was unique for its size: It would have installed 6.2 giga … | Continue reading
Barbara Kelley remembers when her car and windows were routinely coated with a thin film of coal dust that had drifted over from the power plant on the edge of her neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. She remembers the noise as a conveyor belt lifted the coal into the building. … | Continue reading
The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations was supposed to be a launchpad for ambitious projects to help America lead the way on cleaner power and manufacturing. Now it’s been reduced to a shell of itself. As the Trump administration slashes spending and fires workers across the … | Continue reading
The first wind farm slated to plug into New York City’s grid has already endured one political catastrophe this year. Now, a logistical crisis looms on the horizon. Equinor’s Empire Wind is a 810-megawatt project being built about 20 miles off the shore of Long Island, promisin … | Continue reading
In July, China launched the world’s largest green hydrogen plant. One month later, India’s government backed 19 projects designed to make the country a leader in producing green hydrogen, which could help decarbonize everything from steel to shipping. Saudi Arabia and the United … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The specter of additional, deeper federal funding cuts is haunting the clean-energy sector. A Department of Energy list shared this week with Canary Media suggests the … | Continue reading
See more from Canary Media's "Chart of the week” column . Renewable energy just notched a major milestone. Worldwide, renewables produced more electricity than coal across the first half of this year — a first, according to clean-energy think tank Ember . The global revoluti … | Continue reading
Investment in cleantech startups is tracking toward the lowest level in years. But Base Power shrugged off the market trends and just raised $1 billion to turbocharge its home battery buildout. The colossal Series C funding round comes only six months after it raised $200 millio … | Continue reading
Power demand from data centers threatens to scuttle utility decarbonization goals, push grid infrastructure to the brink, and drive up electricity costs for everyday customers already struggling to pay their bills. But a new report identifies a strategy that utility planners can … | Continue reading
About 30 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, workers have been building America’s largest offshore wind farm at a breakneck pace. The project will start feeding power to the grid by March — the most definitive start date provided by its developer yet. “First power w … | Continue reading
America’s fledgling carbon-removal industry is on edge following funding cuts from the Trump administration — and rumors of even further clawbacks to follow. On Tuesday, a list of potential U.S. Department of Energy award terminations shared with Canary Media, and which circulat … | Continue reading
California has labored for years to build enough clean energy to wean itself off fossil fuels. Now the effort is paying off in an undeniable way. President Donald Trump’s Department of Energy might tweet that solar plants are “essentially worthless when it is dark outside.” But … | Continue reading
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed three bills that aimed to boost the use of virtual power plants, undermining an opportunity to decrease the state’s fast-rising electricity costs and increase its grid reliability. On Friday, Newsom vetoed AB 44 , AB 740 , and SB 541 , … | Continue reading
Even as the federal government attempts to prop up the waning coal industry, New England’s last coal-fired power plant has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date. The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with … | Continue reading
The future of community solar is dimming, hampered by federal attacks on clean energy and shifts in state markets. Installations of the shared-solar approach took a nosedive in the first half of 2025, dropping by 36% from the same period last year, according to a new report by c … | Continue reading
Discover how Hydrostor's 500 MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) project, Willow Rock, is taking shape. This fossil-free, long-duration… | Continue reading
Discover how Hydrostor's 500 MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) project, Willow Rock, is taking shape. This fossil-free, long-duration… | Continue reading
Australia has put itself on a realistic path to achieving what climate activists around the world have long dreamed of: running its power grid entirely on renewable energy. The Australian Energy Market Operator oversees the nation’s power markets. Chief among them, the National … | Continue reading
One of the largest ports in the Midwest is officially starting to decarbonize, thanks to a Biden-era grant program that has so far survived the Trump administration’s assault on all things clean energy. Late last month, the Port of Cleveland began renovating its main warehouse o … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. This week, the Trump administration announced its most ambitious pro-coal plans yet — a multipronged effort to resuscitate the industry, despite the financial, health, … | Continue reading
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Globally, investors are pouring more money into renewable energy than ever — even as they pull back on spending in the U.S. Over the first six months of this year, a total of $386 billion flowed to projects ranging fro … | Continue reading
The Trump administration has declared it will claw back billions of dollars in federal funding that utilities and other recipients are using to strengthen power grids and reduce electricity prices — almost entirely in states that voted for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the … | Continue reading
When North Carolina’s GOP-led legislature nixed a key decarbonization deadline for Duke Energy in July, critics feared it would upend the state’s transition to clean energy. Now, a proposal Duke just submitted to regulators shows they were right to worry as the utility, North Ca … | Continue reading
This article by Capital & Main is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. It was a Thursday when Pennsylvania energy regulators received a pair of letters. The first let them know that $156 million in solar grant money they’d receiv … | Continue reading
Americans toss out roughly a billion dollars’ worth of aluminum drink cans a year — a valuable heap that the U.S. aluminum industry has long been working to keep from landfills. Recycling old metal into new products requires dramatically less energy than producing aluminum from s … | Continue reading
For nearly a century, the Kelley’s Falls Dam in Manchester, New Hampshire, generated as much as 2,400 megawatt-hours of electricity per year. When the small hydroelectric station in a downtown park came up for relicensing in 2022, its owners faced what many dam operators now expe … | Continue reading
Community solar has thrived in Illinois, thanks to clean-energy laws passed by state legislators in 2016 and 2021. Now, though, one major utility’s especially slow process for reviewing applications could jeopardize further progress. Developers stuck in the interconnection queue … | Continue reading
XGS Energy, an advanced-geothermal startup, says it has completed crucial testing that proves its novel technology can operate reliably at commercial scale — without losing a drop of water in the process. The milestone, announced on Tuesday, will allow Houston-based XGS to begin … | Continue reading
Earlier this year in tiny Liberty, North Carolina, a multibillion-dollar Toyota plant began shipping batteries for use in the auto giant’s hybrid and electric vehicles. Expected to ultimately create at least 5,000 jobs, the facility is the largest investment to date in the Southe … | Continue reading
California lawmakers managed to pass a slate of bills aimed at controlling the state’s high and rising electricity costs in the final days of the legislative session this month. But the last-minute negotiations left one key money-saving measure on the cutting-room floor — continu … | Continue reading
The U.S. is a nation of air-conditioned houses, and this ubiquitous cooling machinery drives an outsize chunk of the country’s electrical demand, especially during heat waves. Now, as utilities scramble to meet even more power demand for AI computing, legacy air-conditioning gian … | Continue reading
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. There's nothing like a shared frustration to bring people together. For a group of Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states, that's rising power prices on the grid operated … | Continue reading
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Clean energy is starting to bend the curve on China’s fossil-fuel use. Overall, carbon-free sources met more than 80% of China’s new electricity demand last year — a marked difference from recent years. Between 2011 an … | Continue reading
Standing alone on a rocky coastline wearing a seaman-style knit hat, Samuel L. Jackson reaches into a snack bag and gazes intensely through binoculars. Wind turbines spin ominously on a watery horizon. “Motherf-cking wind farms. Loud, ugly, harmful to nature,” the “Pulp Fiction” … | Continue reading
Microsoft says it will get green steel from a first-of-a-kind facility in northern Sweden as the tech giant looks to curb the climate impact of its data center build-out. This week, Microsoft announced a two-part deal with Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel), which is building a mu … | Continue reading
A year after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina — dumping as much as 30 inches of rain and felling thousands of trees — countless homes still suffer from leaky roofs, mold and mildew, and rotting floors. All that damage doesn't just threaten residents’ comfort, health, … | Continue reading
Illinois could start turning homes and businesses into “virtual power plants” with solar-powered batteries aiding the grid, under a bill that has been gaining momentum in the state legislature. In Puerto Rico, Vermont, California, Texas, and other states, virtual power plants ha … | Continue reading
Glassmaking has dramatically evolved in the thousands of years since ancient artisans crafted their first decorative beads and perfume bottles. But the underlying recipe remains virtually the same: Combine sand, sodium carbonate, and limestone, then blast the ingredients with sco … | Continue reading
States are ramping up efforts to get residents to switch from fossil-fuel-fired heating systems to all-electric heat pumps. Now, they’ve got a big new tool kit to pull from. Last week, the interagency nonprofit Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, or NESCAUM, rel … | Continue reading
Revolution Wind can officially resume. But unlike the last time President Donald Trump ordered construction on an offshore wind project to pause, relief came through the courts rather than politicking. A federal judge on Monday ruled in favor of the Danish energy giant Ørsted, w … | Continue reading
After years of failed attempts, California lawmakers have cleared the way to create an electricity-trading market that would stretch across the U.S. West. Advocates say that could cut the region’s power costs by billions of dollars and support the growth of renewable energy. But … | Continue reading