A few relatively simple policy fixes could cut the amount of planet-warming methane released by U.S. landfills in half in the next 25 years, according to research published on Tuesday. The report, “ Turning Down the Heat ” by the nonprofit think tank Industrious Labs , estimated … | Continue reading
Just a few months ago, Singapore-based solar manufacturer and longtime solar technology leader Maxeon was issuing press releases about the new jobs it would create at a massive $1.9 billion solar cell and panel factory in New Mexico that was to be backed by the U.S. Department of … | Continue reading
Donna Ballinger has lived in the shadows of Ohio’s Middletown steel mill her entire life. The hulking furnaces surrounding Ballinger’s home have long been an economic engine for this city just north of Cincinnati. They’re also among the dirtiest facilities in the state, when it c … | Continue reading
Diesel-fueled trucks and buses account for an outsized share of carbon emissions and air pollution. Converting those fleets to battery-electric vehicles could go a long way toward decarbonizing the transportation sector. The upfront price of electric vehicles is one of the bigges … | Continue reading
In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the Biden administration has awarded a total of nearly $2 billion in new grants to help harden, expand, and modernize U.S. power grids. Friday’s awards , the third round from the Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Pa … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. In the lawn-care aisle at Home Depot, alongside traditional gas mowers and leaf blowers, you’ll also … | Continue reading
For years, Duke Energy has studied the threats that climate change poses to its power grid. It has produced tomes forecasting the risk to its power lines, substations, and power plants from fires, heat waves, and floods. But the scope of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in the util … | Continue reading
Travertine Technologies , a Colorado-based climatetech company, is building a multimillion-dollar demonstration plant alongside a metals refining facility near Rochester, New York. The plant will recycle discarded gypsum to make sulfuric acid while removing carbon dioxide from th … | Continue reading
Hydrogen is expected to play a key role in shifting heavy-duty industries away from fossil fuels. But today’s methods for making hydrogen are either carbon-intensive — such as steam methane reforming with fossil gas — or currently cost-prohibitive, like using huge amounts of rene … | Continue reading
Airlines are banking on sustainable aviation fuel to reduce the industry’s planet-warming pollution. But the amount of lower-carbon alternatives available to them right now represents just a few drops in an ocean of petroleum. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced … | Continue reading
A year ago, the U.S. announced ambitious plans to build large-scale clean hydrogen hubs. Now, 12 months later, those plans have advanced little and are still shrouded in uncertainty. Last October, the U.S. Department of Energy picked seven consortiums across the country to receiv … | Continue reading
The federal government has just finalized a $861 million loan guarantee to fund what will be Puerto Rico’s largest utility-scale solar and battery storage installations. In July, the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced a conditional commitment to finance two sol … | Continue reading
The one thing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump seem to agree on is that the road to the White House runs through Pennsylvania, the nation’s most populous swing state. October polls show an even split in the Keystone State, and its 19 Electoral College votes could well decide the el … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Energy News Network . When farmer Trent Gerlach found out a solar farm would be built on the land he had long worked in northwestern Illinois, he was disappointed. “As a farmer, seeing that land taken out of production is difficult, when you farm … | Continue reading
The power needs of Google’s insatiable data centers might eventually be met by small modular nuclear reactors — emphasis on might and eventually . Search giant Google and startup Kairos Power have signed what looks to be the first corporate agreement to develop a fleet of small m … | Continue reading
One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without regulation. In fact, not only do the state’s largest dairies face no penalties for emitting methane, they can actually profit handsomely from those emissions. … | Continue reading
In 2024, global carbon emissions will peak — reaching their highest levels ever — then, they’ll begin to decline. That’s according to a new report from the independent research firm DNV, which found that the rapid rise of renewables and electrification has put the world on track … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. Last year’s COP28 meeting produced an ambitious goal: More than 100 countries pledged to triple renew … | Continue reading
If America hopes to meet its grid decarbonization goals or its nuclear power targets, the country needs to deploy fission reactors in volume — and it needs to get started today. That’s according to the recently updated Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Advanced Nuclear report by th … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . By the time Hurricane Helene made its way hundreds of miles inland on September 27, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm. But Helene remained unusually expansive and strong, fueled by the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm … | Continue reading
A green hydrogen project tied to a novel steelmaking initiative in Mississippi faces delays as headwinds batter the emerging market for cleanly produced hydrogen. Hy Stor Energy has proposed building gigawatts’ worth of wind, solar, and geothermal capacity in southern Mississippi … | Continue reading
Form Energy just hit a funding milestone few startups reach, announcing a $405 million Series F financing round on Wednesday that brings its total funding to more than $1.2 billion. That’s a lot of money for a novel long-duration energy storage startup. But it’s commensurate with … | Continue reading
As climate goals creep closer, the U.S. utility sector remains far away from where it needs to be. For the fourth year in a row, the Sierra Club reports that most of the largest U.S. utilities are well off track to meet the Biden administration’s goal of cutting electricity-secto … | Continue reading
This article was first published by Energy News Network . More than seven years after New Hampshire regulators first approved the idea of using community solar to create savings for low-income households, electric bill discounts are finally on the horizon for the first batch of p … | Continue reading
Vermont passed its Affordable Heat Act in 2023, marking the official start of the state’s transition from heating homes with fossil fuels to using cleaner alternatives instead — a shift that will be crucial to meeting state climate goals. Last week, Vermont reached a milestone in … | Continue reading
Renewable energy developer BrightNight just closed a $440 million strategic investment from banking giant Goldman Sachs. The equity investment will help Florida-based BrightNight build out its pipeline of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects, which together represent 3 … | Continue reading
A newly published study examining property values near dozens of large Midwest solar farms has found no significant negative impact — and even a slight positive effect — from the projects, according to the data. Loyola University researcher Gilbert Michaud has attended scores of … | Continue reading
Some batteries serve to bolster utility power grids. Other batteries provide backup power to buildings in case the grid goes down. And sometimes, with effort and coordination, batteries can do both jobs at once. That’s what’s happening in Wakefield, Massachusetts, a town of about … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Energy News Network . Environmental advocates are hailing a decision by Massachusetts regulators that will give more than 1.3 million households access to lower winter electricity prices if they use a heat pump in their home. Public utilities reg … | Continue reading
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column. Batteries are all the rage — especially among homeowners who are going solar. The percentage of peopl … | Continue reading
Federal regulators gave a huge, contentious offshore wind project the green light to start construction off the coast of New Jersey. Owned by Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind , a 50-50 venture by Shell and EDF Renewables , the project received approval of air permits from the Enviro … | Continue reading
The New York City Economic Development Corporation is cementing the city’s role as a climate leader, including a new $100M innovation hub in Brooklyn. | Continue reading
PJM, the largest electric grid operator in the U.S., has a major problem — old, dirty power plants are closing down faster than new clean energy resources can replace them. This mounting grid crisis is already driving up electricity costs for the 65 million people living in PJM’s … | Continue reading
DETROIT — In 1913, Henry Ford unveiled the moving assembly line at his Highland Park plant, reducing the time it took to make a Model T from 12 hours to 93 minutes and igniting a revolution in modern manufacturing. He later perfected the intricate choreography of worker and machi … | Continue reading
The United States makes some 90 million metric tons of cement every year to bind together the nation’s concrete buildings, bridges, and other infrastructure. In the process, U.S. cement plants generate huge amounts of planet-warming emissions — equivalent to those from 16 million … | Continue reading
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund , the national green bank program created by the Inflation Reduction Act, has gotten off to a slow start — but the money has started to flow. In April, a handful of nonprofit consortiums were selected to administer the $20 billion program . These … | Continue reading
The U.S. has never restarted a decommissioned nuclear reactor, but today Holtec International closed a $1.5 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to do just that: The money will help finance the reopening of the 805-megawatt Palisades Nuclear Gene … | Continue reading
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that aimed to make rooftop solar systems more affordable for school districts . The decision drew immediate rebukes from groups that say it will harm schools by preventing them from using solar to curb their rising utility bills and … | 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. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column. The home inspection report painted a pretty blea … | 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. Canary thanks EnergySage for its support of the column. The home inspection report painted a pretty blea … | Continue reading
This story was first published by Grist . Matthias Weyland loves having people ask about his balcony. A pair of solar panels hang from the railing, casting a sheen of dark blue against the red brick of his apartment building. They’re connected to a microinverter plugged into a wa … | Continue reading
Solar is becoming predictable in its unpredictability — time and time again, experts have underestimated how much the clean energy source will grow globally. This year is no different. The price of panels has continued to plummet and their efficiency keeps rising, while deadlines … | Continue reading
The U.S. electric car market is clearly growing. Sales are rising, market penetration is increasing, and we're getting closer to the dream of emissions-free motoring. But the road is not without its potholes and speed bumps: Several major automakers, such as Ford and Volvo, have … | Continue reading
U.S. clean hydrogen policy appears to be stuck in neutral — and not everyone is convinced that’s a bad thing. Last October, seven “clean hydrogen hub” projects were awarded a collective $7 billion in potential funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. These massive infra … | Continue reading
Landfills are the third-largest source of methane, a super-pollutant greenhouse gas that traps 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. While the EPA places caps on methane and other emissions from landfills, experts say that monitoring and enforcement is lar … | Continue reading
Curbing carbon emissions from vehicles and buildings involves more than just ditching fossil-fuel-burning engines and boilers. It also requires cleaning up key materials such as the carbon-intensive steel used in auto body parts and construction beams. The world’s biggest users a … | Continue reading
Three years ago, Washington state legislators passed a landmark climate law that positioned the Evergreen State among the nation’s frontrunners in climate action. Now that status is at risk, thanks to an upcoming ballot initiative this November. The 2021 Climate Commitment Act in … | Continue reading
We’re used to reporting the news, not making it, but today we’ve got an announcement of our own to share: Canary Media and the Energy News Network are merging, with the goal of bringing you more of the engaging, accessible, expert journalism on the clean energy transition that yo … | Continue reading