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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…

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…

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…

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…

Longtime solar developer Cypress Creek Energy has not only broken ground on what could be the largest solar-plus-storage plant in the country, but also secured a blue-chip customer to pay for the clean power. Google will buy all the electricity from the first two phases of the forthcoming Steel River Energy Center…

Nuclear giant Holtec International is betting big that its 300-megawatt small modular reactors are the future of atomic energy. On Friday, the Florida-headquartered firm filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission in order to sell shares in the company on the Nasdaq. Across hundreds of pages, the…

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Wind turbines can confuse radar systems on ships and aircraft. Their massive rotating blades create a “blade flash” on radar screens, while their steel bases reflect electromagnetic waves, making it difficult to distinguish…

A sweeping federal housing bill that became law last Saturday contains some big benefits for Americans poised to buy or rent new manufactured homes — the same families who often struggle to make ends meet and can least afford the rising cost of heating fuel and electricity. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act — a…

More and more Ohioans are struggling to pay their utility bills. That’s one clear takeaway from the latest utility reports showing how many customers had their power shut off because of unpaid bills. Across the state’s regulated electric utilities, an average of 7.7% of customers had their power turned off because…

America’s offshore wind farms have already shown their ability to keep electricity flowing during brutal winter storms. Now, the clean energy resource has proved it can also bolster the grid during major heat waves. Earlier this month, as dangerously hot and humid temperatures settled over the eastern United States,…

Earlier this month, as a historic heat dome smothered the U.S. Midwest and Atlantic Coast, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani asked residents to set their air conditioners to 78 degrees Fahrenheit to protect the city’s severely strained grid. “Let's ease demand — and get through the heat — together,” he posted on X…

Do you live in the U.S. and want balcony solar ? A new initiative could help you get a deal on one of these small but mighty systems that plug into a standard outlet and push clean power into your home. Today, California-based nonprofit Bright Saver announced it’s selling zero-markup DIY solar kits starting at about…

Startup Peak Energy launched in 2023 with a promise to bring the up-and-coming sodium-ion battery chemistry to American shores. Now, it’s building a gigafactory in Sacramento, California, that will be the country’s first to produce sodium-ion battery storage plants for the grid. If Peak Energy succeeds in its…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Last week brought soaring temperatures to much of the U.S., forcing Americans to switch on their air conditioners — or, in many cases, flex their heat pumps’ cooling capabilities. And to cope with it all,…

Up until recently, the U.S. was in a yearslong dry spell in the construction of new nuclear power plants. The hiatus finally ended in April , when two next-generation nuclear developers broke ground on their debut plants. Though those facilities will take years to finish, the next reactor set to patch onto the U.S.…

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…

For more than a year, the Ohio Supreme Court has been set to make a landmark ruling in a case with high stakes for renewable energy development. But now, the Ohio Power Siting Board has asked the court to skip that and dismiss the case altogether. In December 2022, the OPSB denied developer Vesper Energy’s permit…

This story was reported and published in collaboration with Hawaiʻi Public Radio . On June 8, 2015, Gov. David Ige sat under the great seal of the state of Hawaiʻi and signed the nation’s first legal commitment to run an entire state’s grid system on 100% renewable electricity. Ige, a Democrat, lamented that…

In the rugged mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina, woodstoves and propane heat are common — and money tends to be tight. That’s especially true for families still recovering from Hurricane Helene nearly two years later. Wood is cheap and easy enough to come by in the forested region. But propane has to be…

Southern California’s landmark rule to slash emissions from industrial heating sources just notched a major victory in court. The region has some of the worst air quality in the U.S., and the gas-fueled boilers and water heaters that serve its factories and large buildings are a key culprit. In 2024, air quality…