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Where’s the beef? Under the solar panels.
CHRISTIANA, Tenn. — As sunlight fell between the gaps in flinty November clouds, I found myself impressed by the quietness of the lawn mowers in a Middle Tennessee solar field. Instead of the obnoxious roar of diesel engines, they just produced an occasional moo. Six months ago, Tennessee’s largest…
After a gas furnace leak, this retiree went all-electric — for free
A few years ago, a gas leak from Sherry Frazier's furnace forced her and her daughter out of Frazier’s Baltimore home. “Oh, it was awful,” said Frazier, a retired educator who worked with students with disabilities in Baltimore public schools. “We had bad headaches and were kind of dizzy, wobbly on…
Voters gave a big middle finger to data centers
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Americans aren’t happy about the data center boom, and they made their displeasure pretty clear this Election Day. Voters not only selected a slate of Democratic candidates who campaigned…
The wins and weak spots in America's solar supply chain
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Now that solar has become America’s go-to choice for new power plants , the pressure is on to assemble a fully domestic supply chain for the technology. Data from the latest Clean Investment Monitor shows that this onshoring process is well…
Democrats' state wins open the door for major clean energy progress
Democrats' historic wins in Tuesday’s midterm elections will give them control of Congress and a chance to combat the Trump administration’s anti-climate agenda, but the president’s veto power will limit their options. At the state level, however, Democrats’ victories offer immediate opportunities…
Will PG&E’s $2B grid cutbacks derail California’s clean energy buildout?
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Hello, everyone! We’ve got a lot of postelection news to cover this week. But I want to start with another hugely important issue, one that poses…
A third major US offshore wind farm is now fully operational
The offshore wind farm Revolution Wind is completely up and running — despite the Trump administration’s repeated and ongoing efforts to halt development of the $6.2 billion project. On Thursday, the Danish energy giant Ørsted said its 704-megawatt wind farm near Connecticut and Rhode Island began…
Virtual power plants can help avoid overbuilt grid if AI boom goes bust
Nobody really knows how much power the data center boom will need — and that’s putting utilities in a tough spot. If they underinvest in power plants and the grid, economic growth and energy reliability will suffer. But if they overinvest, Americans may pay for infrastructure nobody needs. One way…
Top clean energy wins from the midterm elections
The top story from Tuesday’s elections is clear: Democrats won big-time on the national level, dominating U.S. Senate and House races across the country. And on the state level, clean energy could get a jolt from Democratic wins for state offices and utility commissions and new approved ballot…
A Michigan utility’s iffy plan to trap CO2 from its new gas plants
Can a utility commit to building massive gas plants and still achieve zero carbon emissions? DTE Electric in southeast Michigan says yes, and it outlines how in a 20-year plan currently being considered by regulators. The key, the utility says, will be carbon capture and sequestration — collecting…
These cranberry bogs come with a side of solar
It’s cranberry season in southeastern Massachusetts. At bogs throughout the region, growers are collecting the ruby-red berries destined for holiday cakes, juice bottles, and cans of jellied sauce. At two farms, however, the harvesting process looks a little different: Pickers are navigating…
Here’s how solar and wind developers can hold on to tax credits
When Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, solar and wind developers celebrated something that had historically been elusive: long-term certainty about federal tax incentives. Companies accustomed to the waxing and waning of political support for the investment tax…
Why batteries, not gas plants, should be data centers' first choice
Developers and utilities are building tons of gas generation to power the data center boom. It’s an expansion that could cost them and the rest of us dearly, both in terms of climate change and money that may end up wasted if computing demand fails to materialize. But there’s a cleaner, cheaper…
Trump cuts have left tribes without millions of dollars for clean energy
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter . Every year, Kotzebue, a small city in northwest Alaska, has a three-month window to receive all the diesel fuel it will use throughout the following year. It sits on a gravel spit that juts into Kotzebue Sound…
Boise plans to tap its geothermal network to heat 300 affordable homes
Boise already knows how to tap the carbon-free heat beneath our feet. The city operates the country’s largest geothermal heating system, which pipes naturally warmed, 177-degree-Fahrenheit water from underground to about 100 buildings — including the Idaho State Capitol. Last week, semiconductor…
Meta strikes deal to help bring a low-carbon cement plant to Missouri
Tech companies say they're seeking low-carbon construction materials to limit the climate impact of their data centers. But very little clean cement or green steel is actually being produced in the U.S. today, and only in a handful of locations. To tackle that dilemma, Meta recently struck a deal…
5 ballot proposals that could drive or derail clean energy
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The midterm elections are upon us. While most of the country has its eyes on who will control Congress, there’s plenty at stake for clean energy at the bottom of some voters’ ballots, too…
Here's how much Trump's Iran war has added to Americans' fuel costs
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Donald Trump ran for his second term promising to “make America affordable again.” Two years later, the president’s war with Iran has his constituents paying through the nose for gasoline and diesel. In fact, per-person fuel costs have…
California’s long road to make EV charging more reliable
This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Thursday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! Today’s topic is public EV chargers and California’s long and winding road to make them reliable. In 2023, I…
From zoos to craft brews, Michigan looks to spur decarbonization
Re-creating polar habitats in Michigan is no small feat. Just ask the Detroit Zoo, where the polar bear and penguin centers require producing industrial levels of cooling from energy-intensive equipment. For the zoo, figuring out how to keep animals comfortable using less, and cleaner, energy is…
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