This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Solar is beating coal in China. Sorta. But also not at all. Let me explain. An eye-popping new chart made the rounds this week. It shows a line representing solar energy in China rising improbably over…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Glass half-empty or glass half-full? The classic question is now gripping the policy wonks who are trying to measure the damage President Donald Trump has inflicted on the U.S. energy transition — and to…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Developers are planning to build an enormous amount of natural gas-fired power plants in the U.S., fueled in large part by the AI boom. The expansion is a serious threat to the nation’s decarbonization efforts — but because so much gas development remains…

A thousand solar roofs per week. That was the pace Elon Musk predicted Tesla would install its electricity-generating roof tiles in 2020, more than three years after he unveiled the product to great fanfare on the set of the TV show Desperate Housewives. That estimate fell flat. Tesla managed to install a total of…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . It’s a tough time to build renewable energy in the U.S. In 2026 alone, the Trump administration has phased out tax credits , frozen clean-energy permitting , and issued tariffs certain to raise the cost of solar — while continuing to take lazy and…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Last fall, as generous federal incentives for consumer cleantech were set to expire, people raced to lock in good deals on EVs and rooftop solar . Then, this year, sales cratered. But home batteries bucked the trend. Federal tax credits for residential…