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This story was first published by the Missouri Independent . The conversion of Missouri farmland from food to solar power production creates feuds among neighbors, pits residents against developers, and raises questions about property rights. Those tensions were on full display Tuesday in the Missouri Senate…

Silicon Valley–based startup Lunar Energy has spent the last six years building a business for its smart home batteries and the virtual power plant software that can orchestrate those systems to support the grid at large. Now, it has a massive new pot of cash to expand that effort, as utilities and state policymakers…

California’s power system has an infamous problem. Solar projects produce more electricity than is needed during the day but too little to satisfy demand at night. So the state’s major utilities are developing new electricity rates to encourage their largest customers to shift to using more power during those hours…

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . SHENANDOAH, Iowa — First viewed from a pickup truck driving south on U.S. 59, the wind turbines seem small and delicate. The…

The Trump administration is facing lawsuits from states and environmental groups opposing its use of emergency power to force aging coal plants to stay online. Now, add utilities to its list of challengers. Last week, the cooperative utilities Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and Platte River Power…

In December, the Trump administration issued a sweeping stop-work order to every single offshore wind installation underway in America. But, as of today, all five projects have either resumed construction or received the green light from judges to do so. A federal judge ruled Monday that the 924-megawatt Sunrise…

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The ostensibly barren Mojave Desert is in fact teeming with plants and animals, including a rare species known as the threecorner milkvetch. It’s a member of the pea family, splaying across the ground instead of climbing…

A group of governments in the Denver metropolitan area has managed to hold on to a nearly $200 million federal grant to unleash heat pumps in the region — and now it’s putting that money to work. The group has retained the funding, awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2024, even as the Trump…

First it got cold. Across New England, temperatures have been almost constantly below 20 degrees Fahrenheit since last Friday night. Then it snowed. Winter Storm Fern swept through the region on Sunday and Monday, leaving more than two feet of white stuff in its wake in many places. But despite the extreme weather,…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Back in 2021, Winter Storm Uri resulted in more than 240 deaths in Texas as freezing temperatures shut down gas power plants and pushed the state’s independent electricity grid to the brink of collapse. It…

See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . Two decades ago, the European Union got basically none of its power from wind and solar. Now, those are the leading sources of electricity in the bloc. In 2025, wind and solar produced more electrons for the EU than fossil fuels did, per a new Ember…

Tesla is rededicating itself to rooftop solar, a decade after it bought the then-leading company in that sector, SolarCity. The pioneering electric car maker has continued to sell rooftop solar through its energy division since the SolarCity acquisition. But the Solar Roof product — essentially roof tiles that…

Clean energy foes, from the Trump administration to state legislators to some community members, have long complained that large solar installations are threatening farmland and rural America’s pastoral way of life. The claims are especially salient in North Carolina, which is both a top-five state for solar…

Factories that make essential materials like steel and cement need scorching-hot air and steam to transform raw ingredients into finished products. Traditionally, they get that heat by burning fossil fuels. But the startup Electrified Thermal Solutions is pursuing a far cleaner approach: tapping piles of bricks. The…

Donica Brady has worked as a security guard, a school bus driver, and a fabricator of corrugated metal and bridge girders. But her favorite job has been helping to bring solar panels and batteries to tribal communities struggling to pay their utility bills. “I grew up in a single-parent home,” said Brady, an…

In the United States, the Trump administration is waging a relentless war on offshore wind, taking an all-of-government approach to thwarting construction of turbines at sea. On the other side of the Atlantic, however, 10 European countries have formed an alliance to build out 100 gigawatts of offshore wind power…

Last year brought a torrent of bad news for the U.S. electric vehicle industry. The Trump administration pushed Republicans in Congress to cancel Biden-era EV tax credits and revoke states’ rights to set clean-car mandates. The White House moved to weaken vehicle fuel-economy standards . And it froze billions of…

New Hampshire Republicans are attempting to do away with a 50-year-old property tax exemption for households and businesses with solar, contending that the policy forces residents without the clean energy systems to unwittingly subsidize those who have them. Supporters of the exemption, however, say this argument is…

U.S. solar manufacturers start 2026 in an odd position. They have made real strides toward reshoring production, but still have a long way to go — and federal and trade policies are layering new uncertainties onto the task. The U.S. is now actively producing all the major components in the solar supply chain:…

How much should data centers pay for the massive amounts of new power infrastructure they require? Wisconsin’s largest utility, We Energies, has offered its answer to that question in what is the first major proposal before state regulators on the issue. Under the proposal, currently open for public comment, data…