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The wind turbines arrived in Gloucester at the same time I did. My husband and I moved into a cheap third-floor apartment in the small coastal city in northern Massachusetts in November 2012, just as cranes were assembling the imposing white towers right next to the highway that ushered us into town. I loved them…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. It’s been a month since the U.S. and Israel first attacked Iran, sparking a conflict that has all but shut down the critical shipping lane of the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil prices on a roller coaster.…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Solar and wind developers around the world just keep getting defeated — by themselves. Yet again, a record amount of new solar and wind capacity came online globally last year, according to the latest numbers by think tank Ember. The jump was sizable:…

Small, sun-driven power plants could soon be coming to backyards and balconies across New England. Lawmakers in all six of the region’s states are considering bills that would allow residents to take advantage of solar panel kits that plug in to standard home outlets, and supporters are optimistic that most — perhaps…

The Trump administration’s unusual deal to pay TotalEnergies to abandon its U.S. offshore wind ambitions might not be the last of its kind. Earlier this week, the Interior Department said it would reimburse the French oil giant for nearly $1 billion in lease fees the company paid in 2022 for areas off the coasts of…

After years of false starts and amid an acute regional energy crunch, large-scale onshore wind power could finally take off in Maine in 2026. Utility regulators in five New England states are considering developers’ proposals to build up to 1.2 gigawatts of onshore wind capacity in Maine’s far north, following a…

As power-hungry data centers and rising fuel prices put the squeeze on anxious voters last fall, Virginia Democrats secured a governing trifecta in Richmond partly on a promise to rein in energy costs . Now, with a 60-day legislative session in the rearview mirror as of March 14, newly elected Gov. Abigail…

AI infrastructure startup Crusoe has always differentiated itself from its competitors by finding creative ways to tap energy. Now, it’s investing in two of the most potentially transformative battery technologies on the market. Crusoe has signed a deal with Form Energy to purchase 120 megawatts of iron-air…

Cleveland-Cliffs appears poised to lock its Middletown Works steel mill into using fossil fuels for at least the next two decades. The steel manufacturer had already abandoned its plan to replace a coal-based blast furnace at the southwest Ohio plant with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology and electric furnaces.…

It’s typically depicted as green. It’s loved by some and feared by others. It had a heyday in the 1960s before drawing a political backlash that led to statewide prohibitions. Now, as it grows more popular with Americans than anytime in recent memory, state after state is changing the law to once again legalize it. …

Ohio regulators have blocked yet another major solar project because of local pushback, even though a significant number of public comments opposing the array appear to be fabricated. It’s the latest blow to solar in a state that defers to local governments on renewable energy, but not on fossil fuels. The Ohio…

Geothermal energy is rapidly advancing in the U.S. and globally, thanks to the arrival of next-generation technologies and skyrocketing power demand from data centers. Yet as more companies drill down deep to harness Earth’s heat, the industry is poised to hit a major snag on the surface. Geothermal power plants…

Photography by Adam Perez Harris Ranch Resort isn’t close to much. Residents of California’s major cities know it mainly as a rest stop about halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Interstate 5’s long run through the San Joaquin Valley. The sprawling stucco building has a Western-themed gift shop and a…

In its efforts to block U.S. offshore wind development, the Trump administration has halted project construction , rolled back tax credits , and spread misinformation . Now, in the latest maneuver, the administration is paying a global energy giant nearly $1 billion to walk away from its plans to install turbines off…

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter . When Krystal Steward started knocking on her neighbors’ doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2021, to discuss energy efficiency and sustainability upgrades, she was met with a lot of blank stares. She was new to the issues…

Big batteries have begun reshaping the U.S. grid. Now, the country has made surprising strides in making those energy storage systems itself, rather than depending on imports from China. Batteries were always crucial for the effort to scale up renewable energy production, but they have taken on even more…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Trump administration has left no stone unturned and no fund untouched in its attempt to undo the Biden administration’s clean-energy legacy. That includes $5 billion in funding for the National Electric…

Nuclear energy developers have historically operated by a simple principle: Go big. Reactors cost a lot of money to build, so the logic has been that it’s easier to recoup that investment if the project produces more electricity. Of late, a new generation of companies has made waves by bucking that conventional…

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the Week” column . Clean energy is on a tear. In China and India, it’s growing so fast it’s starting to unseat king coal. In the European Union, solar and wind now produce more electricity than do all fossil fuels combined. Even in the U.S., amid the Trump administration’s…

Illinois could soon follow in the footsteps of Utah and Virginia with a law allowing plug-in solar arrays, often called “balcony solar.” A bill that would make it simpler to install plug-in solar passed out of the state legislature’s Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee on March 12. It’s now scheduled for a…