See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . While the Trump administration is busy pointing out that the sun doesn’t shine at night , solar is breaking records around the world, including in sunny California. Solar panels produced 51% of California’s electricity in May, the first time the clean…

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 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,…

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…

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…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . President Donald Trump’s attacks on clean energy haven’t spelled disaster for the energy transition — but they have definitely hurt job prospects for Americans. Between January 2025, when Trump took office for his second term, and May 2026, a total of 216…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . Data centers use more electricity in the U.S. than in any other country — China included. In 2025, nearly 40% of all power demand from data centers came from facilities based in the U.S., according to this year's Statistical Review of World Energy from the…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. One year ago, President Donald Trump got his Fourth-of-July wish. Republicans rammed a massive tax and spending bill through Congress before his preferred July 4 deadline, allowing Trump to sign it into law…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . Summer is officially here — and more Americans than ever are cooling their homes with heat pumps. A decade ago, two conventional air-conditioning systems were sold for every one heat pump. Now, heat pumps are on the verge of outselling standard ACs. In…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . With solar panels getting cheaper each year and utility bills soaring, you might expect rooftop solar to be booming in the U.S. That’s not the case. Instead, thanks in large part to the Trump administration’s revocation of federal tax incentives,…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The major players in AI want energy far faster than utilities can provide it — and that’s prompting them to explore some alternative approaches to powering data centers, ranging from the conventional to the…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . The U.S. just hit a big milestone: It got more power from solar panels than from coal plants in May. It’s the first time that has ever happened across an entire month, and all the more notable given the Trump administration’s all-out push to revive the…

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee’s efforts to slash funding for energy efficiency and roll back renewable energy targets appear poised to fail after the legislature advanced the state budget on Tuesday evening. Earlier this year, McKee, a Democrat, proposed significant cuts to energy-efficiency programs in an attempt to…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . Electric vehicles may be struggling to find buyers in the U.S. — but they’re making inroads elsewhere. A record-breaking 28% of new cars sold this year will be battery-powered, according to new data from the International Energy Agency. That’s a big deal:…

This article is part of our ​“Chart of the Week” series . Once upon a time, Americans could get big federal tax incentives for buying electric vehicles, heat pumps, rooftop solar, and home batteries. But the Trump administration scrapped those tax breaks last year — and no category of household cleantech has…

See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column . April 2026: Remember the date for the energy-transition history books. It’s the first month when wind and solar combined to produce more electricity than natural gas did, per new global data from energy think tank Ember . Just five years ago, the gap…