Read this article in English Traducción por Maria Virginia Olano En los últimos meses, activistas ambientales se han enfocado en la rápida expansión de terminales de exportación de gas natural licuado (GNL) a lo largo de la costa del Golfo de Estados Unidos, llamando la atenció … | Continue reading
The cleanest sources of electricity could soon make up the largest share of electricity generation in the European Union. Wind and solar made huge strides last year, producing more than one-quarter of the EU’s electricity for the first time, while fossil fuel generation plummeted … | Continue reading
An emerging crop of startups is trying to unleash the vast potential of geothermal energy. Using next-generation technologies, the companies aim to generate huge amounts of carbon-free electricity that could light up cities, factories and power-hungry data centers around the cloc … | Continue reading
Environmental activists have turned a spotlight in recent months on the rapid expansion of liquefied natural gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast of the United States, calling attention to the ramifications for nearby communities and the climate. But another buildout of liqu … | Continue reading
It's not very easy to get your hands on cultivated meat at the moment. In fact, even though U.S. regulators approved the sale of cultivated chicken for the first time last summer , today there are only two restaurants in the country where you can buy the futuristic product . … | Continue reading
By this time next year, a new satellite will be detecting how much methane is leaking from oil and gas wells, pumps, pipelines and storage tanks around the world — and companies, governments and nonprofit groups will be able to access all of its data via Google Maps. That’s one w … | Continue reading
Governments and industry players alike are furiously investing billions in cleaning up the production of hydrogen gas to create an alternative to fossil fuels. But startup Koloma is taking a different path: searching for underground reservoirs of naturally occurring hydrogen that … | Continue reading
Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces. Again. According to data from the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute released last week, Americans bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating appliance, fossil gas furnaces. That’s the biggest … | Continue reading
New York’s future is fossil-gas-free, and it’s time for state policies to fully reflect that. That’s the upshot of testimony last week from climate advocates, who called on Governor Kathy Hochul (D) and the state legislature to pass the NY Home Energy Affordable Transition Act in … | Continue reading
Georgia is a tough market for home solar. It’s even tougher if you’re trying to offer home solar to lower-income households at no upfront cost, and with monthly payments that don’t cost more than what their solar power enables them to save on their utility bills. But Andy Posner, … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . Environmental activists and community organizers on the Gulf Coast have spent years pressuring the Biden administration to halt the construction of terminals that export liquefied natural gas, or LNG. As U.S. production of natural gas sky … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . It’s Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas. The city’s bright lights and grand marquees are shining as thousands of fans arrive by air and by car. Taylor Swift almost certainly will fly in aboard her jet, one of about 1,000 private planes expe … | Continue reading
Last month, the Biden administration announced it would pause the approval of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, citing the need to update its criteria to reflect the environmental effects and other impacts of proposed projects. Environmental activists hailed the u … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . Kay and Bruce Schilling decided last year that they wanted to install electric-vehicle charging equipment at an apartment building they manage in Belmont, California, but they had no idea where to begin. They figured that adding the ameni … | Continue reading
Climate activists had planned to spend this week blocking the entrance to the U.S. Department of Energy’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. During a three-day sit-in, demonstrators were prepared to risk arrest while demanding that the Biden administration stop Calcasieu Pass 2 , a … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity in the climatetech sector. Part 1 is a short Q&A with an industry role model about their career path. Part 2 features updates on career transitions. Please send feedback and tips to wesoff@canarymedia.com. Catalina O … | Continue reading
Swell Energy , a California-based installer and financier of distributed energy storage, has acquired Renu Energy Solutions , a regional installer covering the Carolinas and Georgia, for an undisclosed sum. Swell’s business relies on tying together hundreds or thousands of home b … | Continue reading
Of all the ways California regulators are proposing to rein in fast-rising electric utility rates, few are as controversial as the plan to charge customers for electricity service based on how much money they make. In fact, the proposal is controversial enough that some lawmakers … | 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. Heat pumps are hot solutions for a cooler climate — and for good reason. They're key to decarbonizi … | Continue reading
Hydrogen may be our best hope for decarbonizing heavy industry and long-haul transportation — if it’s produced in ways that do not release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Right now, though, most of the hydrogen that’s made in the U.S. is emissions-intensive. Canary Media re … | Continue reading
Machines that pull carbon dioxide from the sky use huge amounts of energy — all of which must come from carbon-free sources if the technology is going to play any part in fighting climate change. To NextEra Energy Resources , this looks like a big opportunity. On Tuesday, the sub … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Energy News Network . Facing a massive projected increase in electricity demand, Duke Energy last week proposed what advocates called a “tripling down” on new gas plants and scuttling a 2030 deadline to significantly curb its carbon pollution. An … | Continue reading
When SoCal Edison first announced its plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help 250,000 customers install heat pumps back in 2021, some building-electrification advocates saw it as the kind of proactive step utilities need to be taking to transition their customers of … | Continue reading
Are you itching to fight the climate crisis by breaking up with your fossil-gas appliances and internal-combustion-engine car, but feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the task? Pro-electrification nonprofit Rewiring America has just launched a free tool to help you electrify y … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . Utilities want to burn clean hydrogen in gas plants to unlock a reliable, carbon-free electricity system. But a lot of climate hawks have different words for hydrogen as a power-plant fuel: a colossal was … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Whether you believe green hydrogen to be fundamental to the clean energy transition or dismiss it as an overhyped technology, one thing is for certain — more of it is … | Continue reading
Scroll down to watch the video. If you asked Michael Liebreich about the state of clean hydrogen policies in the U.S. and European Union, he wouldn’t say it’s a complete boondoggle — just “an almost complete boondoggle.” That’s the stark diagnosis that emerged during an hour-lon … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . Should our clean energy future rely more on electrons or on molecules? That's the question at the core of the battle over clean hydrogen, a potential fossil-fuel substitute that burns without emittin … | Continue reading
The scraggly grasses and standing water at the Spindletop oil field, near Beaumont in east Texas, don’t immediately suggest the site of a world-changing energy breakthrough. But there, one morning in 1901, workers released a gusher of oil over 100 feet high, turning Texas into a … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . When a sleek new train rolls into Southern California later this year, it will be the first in the nation, and one of only a handful globally, to be running on hydrogen. The four-car commuter train is sla … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . One of the most common analogies for clean hydrogen is that it's like a Swiss Army knife for decarbonization — a handy tool that can kick dirty fossil fuel out of a number of different industries. Bu … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . Airplanes and cargo ships guzzle staggering amounts of oil as they soar across the sky and ply the ocean, resulting in significant planet-warming emissions every year. Several low- and zero-carbon alterna … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . Hydrogen may be the lightest element in the universe, but it could play a hefty role in decarbonizing the economy. If, that is, it’s produced and used with the climate in mind. Hydrogen is flexible: It ca … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . The U.S. now has the world's most lucrative incentive for making clean hydrogen, a tool that should cause the production of the fuel to surge in the years to come. But what's supply without dema … | Continue reading
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series . "Electrify everything” has become something of a calling card for the energy transition, and for good reason: We can cut the carbon emissions of our homes, our cars and so much more by simply swapping fos … | Continue reading
The world is betting big on hydrogen, which might just be the best way to eliminate fossil fuels from essential industries like aviation and steelmaking. But for hydrogen to actually decarbonize anything, it needs to be more or less emissions-free — “clean,” if you like. Its avai … | Continue reading
California leads the U.S. in the push to swap out diesel-fueled trucks for electric — and in the buildout of the electric truck stops and depots those new trucks will depend on. Earlier this month, trucking-as-a-service startup WattEV announced its latest contribution to the ele … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Conventional wisdom has long been that it’s better for the planet to burn fossil gas for electricity than it is to burn coal. But when it comes to liquefied natural ga … | Continue reading
A new refinery in Georgia is about to churn out millions of gallons of jet fuel — except the fuel will be made not from petroleum but from plants. On Wednesday, LanzaJet marked the opening of its Freedom Pines Fuels facility, which uses novel technology to convert ethanol into su … | Continue reading
The largest combined solar and energy-storage project in the U.S. is now online and operating in California’s Mojave Desert. The sprawling megaproject stretches across 4,600 acres in Kern County and is located on private land as well as the Edwards Air Force Base. It’s the bigges … | Continue reading
The Biden administration is expected to postpone its decision on whether to approve a major proposed liquefied-natural-gas export facility until it can more thoroughly study the project’s impacts on the climate and the American public, The New York Times reported Wednesday . If b … | Continue reading
With an announcement last week, the Biden administration has cleared up which parts of the country can access lucrative tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers. Now it needs to clear up exactly which parts of an EV charging installation are eligible for the credit — … | Continue reading
Energy efficiency is often called the “lowest-hanging fruit” of decarbonization — it’s a lot cheaper to use less energy than to make more clean energy. But making buildings more energy-efficient does cost money — and most building owners don’t have tens of thousands of dollars to … | Continue reading
The first step to removing fossil fuels from steelmaking is to build facilities that can produce the all-important alloy with little to no carbon emissions. And the first step to building those new facilities is to lock down billions and billions of dollars in project financing. … | Continue reading
The Biden administration unveiled one of its most significant actions to address climate change last month at the COP28 U.N. climate conference in the United Arab Emirates: new regulations aimed at curtailing methane leaks from oil and gas operations. The U.S. Environmental Prote … | Continue reading
This article by Yale Climate Connections is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. The tall grass prairie of the Flint Hills provides food for cattle, and on the Ferrell Ranch, wind to power 50 turbines. The 7,000-acre ranch in Beaumon … | Continue reading
A clean grid will need a lot of batteries to balance out the ups and downs of solar and wind power. Today, those batteries tend to come in two forms. The first is utility-scale battery farms that take up acres of land and cost up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The second is … | Continue reading