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…