Canary readers stampeded to these clean energy stories, from close looks at fatty fuels and electric lawn tools to California’s controversial solar policy moves and an inspiring account of one country’s recent renewable-power streak. Did your favorites make the list? Check out 10 … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. COP28 concluded last week with what many called a " historic ” achievement: The final agreement signed by all countries included language explicitly calling for “trans … | Continue reading
It’s been a topsy-turvy year for cleantech venture investing, complete with unexpected corporate implosions. 2023 began on a somber note, with foreboding signs from the broader economy. Demoralizing interest rates, inflation and lingering supply-chain weirdness had investors and … | Continue reading
ATLANTIC OCEAN — Three huge blades spin hypnotically overhead, illuminated by the morning sun shining through cotton-ball clouds. Our vessel cruises over gentle waves past the yellow foundation of a 600-foot-tall wind turbine, one of five rising from the waters off the coast of R … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . A new law in Seattle marks the latest in a wave of local efforts to electrify homes and other buildings. Under the city’s Building Emissions Performance Standard , signed into law last week, all existing commercial and multifamily residen … | Continue reading
For the past two decades, demand for electricity across the United States has hardly increased. But those dynamics appear to have dramatically reversed — and U.S. electric utilities, regulators and power grid planners aren’t prepared to deal with this new paradigm of surging elec … | Continue reading
Years of renewables development set Portugal up for stunning success this fall when the country met all of its electricity needs with renewable sources for six days straight . For five of those days, no fossil fuels had to be burned at conventional power plants to keep the grid h … | Continue reading
Octopus Energy, the many-tentacled British clean energy juggernaut, just raised an additional $800 million to fund its next phase of expansion. Octopus started as a retailer in the U.K.’s competitive power markets, but it promised to source clean energy for its customers. It also … | Continue reading
Dear Canary Media readers, I love making the clean energy transition something everyone can embrace in their own homes and lives. And I couldn’t ask for a better time to be doing this work. The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed a bonanza of incentives to help us get off fossil f … | Continue reading
This story was first published by ENN . A 128-year-old Cleveland-area industrial equipment manufacturer is among the newest makers of fast chargers for the growing electric vehicle market. Lincoln Electric’s new Velion DC fast charger adapts and adds to technology the company ha … | Continue reading
Back in October 2022, the Biden administration announced the first investment from its historic program aimed at addressing the climate and health impacts of the nation’s nearly 500,000 diesel-burning school buses. The initial award of nearly $1 billion in rebates was enough to o … | Continue reading
As a child, Tonya Hicks was fascinated by car engines. She spent her summers in her grandparents’ garage with her uncle, an industrial mechanic, who taught her how to build a motor from scrap by the time she was 8. She constantly got in trouble with her mother and grandmother for … | Continue reading
When it comes to the existentially important process of connecting new clean energy to the grid, 2023 is ending much as it began: in a literal gridlock. Despite getting a ton of attention from policymakers — and a major push from federal regulators demanding interconnection refor … | Continue reading
The U.S. clean energy manufacturing sector got a major boost Thursday when the Internal Revenue Service released long-awaited tax credit rules . The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act created unprecedented manufacturing incentives for wind, solar, batteries and critical materials produ … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. This has been a record-shattering year for U.S. solar power. When 2023 comes to a close, nearly 33 gigawatts of solar capacity will have been installed across the coun … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity in the climatetech sector. Part one is a short Q&A with an industry role model about their career path. Part two features updates on career transitions. Please send feedback and tips to wesoff@canarymedia.com. Suzann … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Distilled . Geothermal power is having a bit of an unexpected moment. After two decades of slow growth, most energy experts wrote the technology off as an unrealistic way to generate large amounts of electricity. In an era dominated by incumbent … | Continue reading
Dear Canary Media reader, My reporting for Canary Media can require me to wield more than a notebook and pen. Sometimes, it means donning a hard hat, too. I’ve amassed a collection of photos of myself wearing protective headgear in noisy factories, at construction sites, and whil … | Continue reading
This is the final piece in a three-part series exploring the biggest problems with public EV charging — and how to fix them (read Part 1 and Part 2 ). Canary thanks EnergyHub for its support of the series. Erika Myers can talk about EV charging standards all day. After all, as h … | Continue reading
With this bumpy year for nuclear coming to a close and the world’s energy stakeholders having just gathered for the most nuclear-focused COP meeting ever , it’s a good time to assess the state of atomic power in the U.S. Government pledges and consumer support for nuclear power i … | Continue reading
This is the second piece in a three-part series exploring the biggest problems with public EV charging — and how to fix them (read Part 1 ). Canary thanks EnergyHub for its support of the series. In the U.S., electric vehicle charging infrastructure has a reliability problem — a … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage , from the owner of an older Tesla Model S whose car battery has begun to fail. The battery, which used to provide several hundred miles of range, m … | Continue reading
We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. We report on how the world is decarbonizing — from electricity to transportation, buildings and industry — with a critical focus on finding out what works and wh … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . Most Americans would prefer to live in a home where almost all major appliances run on electricity — but only if they can keep their gas stoves. Just 31 percent want to go fully electric. Researchers asked roughly 1,000 people to what ext … | Continue reading
This piece is the first in a three-part series exploring the biggest problems with public EV charging — and how to fix them. Canary thanks EnergyHub for its support of the series. Rosana Francescato is an electric vehicle enthusiast who likes to plan ahead. So when she and her hu … | Continue reading
Dear Canary Media reader, Could you resist a plea from this lovable pup? I know I can’t. When Lily wants another walk around the block, I’m powerless to resist. I’m hoping that some of Lily’s persuasiveness will rub off on me today as I make my plea. Hear me out. I’m one of the l … | Continue reading
Sunfolding , a venture-capital-funded solar startup with a novel pneumatic tracker solution, is winding down its operations. The news was confirmed by a former employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity and singled out manufacturing challenges and a lack of solar-project ex … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. After a brief hiatus, lithium-ion battery prices are back to their regularly scheduled nosedive. Throughout the 2010s, batteries got cheaper and cheaper, cheering th … | Continue reading
It’s not often you get to write the rules to govern an entirely new industry. But that’s exactly what the Biden administration is set to do next week with proposed rules that will define what kinds of hydrogen production methods count as clean. If recent reports on the leaked rul … | 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. In 2022, Wayne Szeto was psyched to electrify his home. But his electrical panel presented a potential hu … | Continue reading
The Biden administration plans to set strict requirements on the sources of carbon-free electricity used by hydrogen producers seeking lucrative federal incentives, according to news reports citing leaked information regarding long-awaited rules for the Inflation Reduction Act’s … | Continue reading
A Virgin Atlantic flight from London to New York City grabbed the world’s attention last week when it successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean without burning fossil fuels — a first for a major airline . But proving that planes can safely fly on 100 percent sustainable aviation fu … | Continue reading
Last week, the Biden administration released long-awaited proposed guidance for how it plans to enforce one of the most complex and controversial aspects of the electric vehicle incentives created by the Inflation Reduction Act: the requirement that the country’s fast-growing EV … | Continue reading
Dear Canary Media readers, You might know me as the Canary reporter who's dubious about the cost-effective rollout of fuel cells, hydrogen cars, food-based fuels, cow-fart inhibitors and a litany of other impractical technologies. I suspect bad faith in the push to slap new … | Continue reading
COP28 might be remembered as the “nuclear COP.” More than 20 countries including the U.S., France, Japan and the United Kingdom have pledged to triple global nuclear energy generation by 2050 at the launch of COP28 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, the world’s annual climate … | Continue reading
KINGSTON, New York — Behind the diesel-powered Rip Van Winkle party boat, across from Mathilda, the decommissioned 19th-century tugboat, and about 1,000 yards upriver from the rusted husk of a retired New York City hospital barge named the Lila Acheson Wallace, you will find the … | Continue reading
The California Public Utilities Commission has insisted that its decision last year to slash the compensation that households can receive from rooftop solar systems comes with a silver lining — a financial incentive for households to add batteries to their solar systems. The CPUC … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Energy News Network . New Hampshire’s Department of Energy has requested a $70 million federal grant to expand community solar programs for low-income residents, an infusion of funds that supporters say could lower energy bills, accelerate decarb … | Continue reading
It’s been six months since California regulators slashed the value of home rooftop solar systems — and the market crash that the state’s solar industry warned would result is now well underway. On Thursday, the California Solar and Storage Association unveiled data showing a 77 t … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Oil and gas companies, eager to distance themselves from the planet-warming reality of their core business, aren't shy about touting their investments in clean en … | Continue reading
America’s soaring exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, threaten to “destroy” the Biden administration’s clean energy goals and undermine U.S. leadership on climate change — yet the nation’s top officials are standing idly by, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) told Canary … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity in the climatetech sector. Part one is a short Q&A with an industry role model about their career path. Part two features updates on career transitions. Please send feedback and tips to wesoff@canarymedia.com. Consta … | Continue reading
At the start of September of this year, John Caprarelli, a city building official for Santa Clarita, California, had a deadline to meet. By the end of the month, his city of about 220,000 people had to start issuing “instant permits” for all residential solar and solar-battery pr … | Continue reading
Switching the global economy to run on clean energy instead of fossil fuels depends on a massive ramp-up in minerals extraction to supply batteries, solar panels, transmission lines and more. This has a lot of people worried that a lack of access to minerals will eventually hold … | Continue reading
A next-generation geothermal plant backed by Google has started sending carbon-free electricity to the grid in Nevada, where the tech company operates some of its massive data centers. On Tuesday, Google and geothermal developer Fervo Energy said that electrons began flowing from … | Continue reading
A Virgin Atlantic flight taking off this week from London to New York City will last about eight hours, span around 3,500 miles — and emit only a fraction of the planet-warming gases associated with a typical transatlantic flight. On Tuesday, the British airline is set to pluck a … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. The recipe for a fossil-free future includes a big dollop of solar — and in recent years, that solar has started popping up all around the U.S. But where, exactly, are … | 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. Water heaters toil away, often unseen in basements and garages, to keep our showers hot, clothes cleanse … | Continue reading