Yesterday, the Department of Energy took to social media to try and make a scandal out of a well-known fact: Solar panels do not generate power at night. It’s an old and lazy swipe that critics of renewable energy love to take, even though the people who operate our power grids know that this is the case and plan…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. It’s no secret that data centers are slated to bring stunning levels of new power demand to the grid in the coming years. Report after report has tried to put a number on just how much electricity these…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Nearly two years after Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc on western North Carolina’s largest city, many Asheville residents are still rebuilding — and determined to be better prepared for the next weather disaster. In Emma, a diverse, mostly immigrant neighborhood just northwest of downtown, solar…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . Europe has had a sunny start to its summer. Across both May and June, solar was the European Union’s top source of electricity — and provided a record-high 25% of the region’s power last month, per new data from think tank Ember . Several countries,…

When the largest solar farm in Indiana came online in early 2025, nearby residents in rural Jasper County were not exactly excited. “It will mess up their fields,” said long-time resident Gena Carlson, referring to solar panels on farmers’ land. Carlson’s concerns, which were echoed by other locals, highlight the…

An enormous shed sits on a ridge northeast of Calumet, Minnesota, along the state’s Iron Range , visible for miles to drivers rushing by on Highway 169. To reach it by car, I exited the highway at Nashwauk (population 950, give or take) and drove down a lonely county road, eventually pulling up to a security…

Solar, wind, and batteries are the cheapest, fastest ways to add much-needed electricity to America’s grid. And across the country, more state legislatures are passing laws to streamline renewable development than are enacting policies to prevent clean energy from being built. That’s the good news from the Siting…

Ohio has made $100 million available for new energy projects in the state, but critics are pushing back on the decision to bar renewable energy projects from accessing the funds — and on the lack of transparency around the process. The JobsOhio Energy Opportunity Initiative was announced by Republican Gov. Mike…

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter . If you wanted to save some money by learning how to check your home for air leaks, poor insulation, and power-hungry light bulbs, the Department of Energy’s website was ready to help. And if you needed an expert, the site guided…

Haven Energy is the newest company offering home battery service in Massachusetts for a low monthly payment, a model supporters say could accelerate adoption of residential storage. Starting in four counties in the southeastern part of the state, the company will provide customers with a 15-kilowatt-hour home…

A hands-on form of solar power has electrified the U.S. in the past year. Plug-in solar lets anyone hang a few panels in the sunlight and send the power straight into their wall sockets to partially offset their utility bill. It extends the benefits of clean energy, a little bit at a time, to renters and anyone else…

Brandon Oyer, director of energy and water for Amazon Web Services (AWS), discusses how Amazon invests in carbon-free energy, strengthens grids, and ensures communities benefit from data center growth. Oyer leads energy and water strategy for AWS, but his path to that role was unconventional. He spent years serving…

A coalition of 18 states and Washington, D.C., has moved to join an industry lawsuit challenging the Department of Defense’s freeze on onshore wind projects in America. It’s the latest in a nearly yearlong saga during which the Trump administration has obstructed more than 155 land-based wind projects across the…

Over two decades ago, Ormat Technologies began a big experiment on a swath of rugged land near the Hot Springs Mountains in western Nevada. The geothermal company was already producing electricity there, using the heat found naturally in hot water and steam trapped beneath the earth’s surface. But in 2002, Ormat and…

Massachusetts state senators are taking aim at a pipeline replacement program they say is inflating natural gas bills while doing little to make the system safer. The Senate earlier this month passed a sweeping energy-affordability bill that aims to save consumers roughly $14 billion over the next 10 years. One way…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Pretty much every type of energy is getting more expensive in the U.S., but clean energy is still a better bet than fossil fuels. That’s the topline from investment bank Lazard’s latest annual report on…

With the conclusion of its latest capacity auction, PJM Interconnection has once again shown that its process for securing new energy is unable to keep up with the wave of electricity demand from data centers. But PJM, the grid operator for the country’s biggest energy market, is poised to adopt a new process that…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . The global nuclear energy industry has been muted since 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi disaster unfolded in Japan. Some new reactors have been built — especially in China — but a lot of old nuclear power plants have been retired as well. That means…

New Jersey is offering data centers an unorthodox way to get the power they need: by bankrolling home energy upgrades. Last week, Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) signed a bill that will create a first-of-its-kind program to incentivize data centers to secure clean capacity by reducing demand elsewhere on the grid. Data…

Residents of Springfield, Massachusetts, have spent more than a decade fighting a proposal to build a dirty wood-burning plant in the already-polluted city. Several times they thought they had killed it, only to have it rise from the dead. Now, the “zombie project” could soon perish for real. That’s because language…