On a drizzly March day last year at the White House, President Donald J. Trump stood behind a podium to make a “beautiful announcement.” Hyundai, the Korean industrial giant, was investing nearly $6 billion in a new steel plant in Louisiana, which would supply domestic metal to the company’s auto plants in Alabama…
PJM Interconnection, which serves 67 million people across 13 states from the mid-Atlantic to the Midwest, has become a poster child for how not to keep up with soaring energy demand. Startup Base Power is taking a whack at that problem by installing a network of unusually large home batteries in one corner of that…
Mikal Løvik began his career in Norway’s offshore oil and gas industry, where he noticed a big but largely hidden source of energy waste: electric heating cables. Service vessels and drilling rigs used the cables to prevent equipment from freezing, but they always ran on full blast, even when it wasn’t necessary to…
The leading U.S. providers of rooftop solar, home batteries, and grid-responsive smart thermostats have combined forces to create what could be the country’s biggest virtual power plant — or, more precisely, a lot of VPPs in data center hot spots. On Wednesday, Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home announced an agreement to…
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and her fellow state Democrats romped to a governing trifecta last year, pledging to curtail rising electric bills and ensure power-hungry data centers pay their fair share without undermining the state’s clean energy transition. But the party now looks poised to fall short on those…
Last year, Ohio legislators almost unanimously enacted a sweeping law meant to get energy generation online faster and meet surging electricity demand. The law, House Bill 15 , is meant to apply evenly to all types of energy when it comes to adding new generation, according to some leading state lawmakers. “We said…
Canary Media’s “ Eating the Earth ” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. Not so long ago, the Central Highlands of Vietnam were blanketed by forests so dense they blotted out the sun. The American soldiers who slogged through the area during the Vietnam War…
Natasha Keefer is not a fan of heights. But on June 5, Keefer, who heads the Energy Solutions team for the Americas for Prologis, one of the world’s largest logistics companies, braved the ladder up to the roof of a 147,500-square-foot warehouse in Oakland, California, to take a look at the latest solar project her…
Canary Media’s “ Electrified Life ” column shares real-world tales, tips, and insights to demystify what individuals can do to shift their homes and lives to clean electric power. Would you pay more for a home with a heat pump? You can bet I would. I’d gladly fork over more money to bypass a gas or oil furnace,…
This year has been full of dramatic rivalries. World Cup matchups, Knicks versus Spurs, One Battle After Another versus Sinners at the Oscars, and now California solar power versus natural gas. For years, natural gas has dominated electricity production in the climate-conscious Golden State, just as it has…
This article is part of our “Chart of the Week” series . With solar panels getting cheaper each year and utility bills soaring, you might expect rooftop solar to be booming in the U.S. That’s not the case. Instead, thanks in large part to the Trump administration’s revocation of federal tax incentives,…
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. America’s war with Iran is maybe, possibly, headed for resolution, but its impact on the global energy sector isn’t fading anytime soon. The U.S. and Iran signed a deal on Wednesday to end their…
The startup Eavor Technologies hit a crucial milestone late last year when its flagship geothermal project — a novel closed-loop system — started sending electricity to Germany’s grid. The company had completed the first of four planned loops, and it expected to start construction on its second loop earlier this…
Homeowners in Massachusetts and Connecticut can now get a steep discount on a Tesla Powerwall — but only if they agree to let the backup battery help out the grid, too. Under a new virtual power plant (VPP) program announced this week, the U.S. market leader in residential energy storage is offering certain…
Energy developer Invenergy is joining America’s race to build next-generation geothermal — and it plans to do so with the controversial new refund the Trump administration is giving it for abandoning offshore wind projects. On Wednesday, the Chicago-based company struck an agreement with the Trump administration to…
Data centers are set to proliferate, and Duke Energy electric rates are poised to soar — and North Carolinians are mad about both. They’re packing public hearings to complain about their utility bills and passing moratoriums in their communities to stop construction of the ginormous, computer-crammed warehouses. The…
When the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line started carrying electricity from Canada into Maine in January, supporters hailed the project as a triumph for renewable power. Now, after nearly six months of operations, the early numbers raise questions about whether the project will be able to advance…
Apartment and condo dwellers of New York have long been unable to tap solar power at home to lower their energy bills. But that could soon change. Late last month, state legislators passed the Solar Up Now New York (SUNNY) Act to legalize panels that plug into a standard outlet and start producing electricity.…
As spring gives way to summer, many parts of the U.S. are already feeling the heat. It’s a good moment to take stock of the energy breakthroughs that transpired this past “shoulder season.” That’s the period of time between the chill of winter and the high temperatures of July and August, when renewable energy…
Wind and solar developers in the U.S. have just a few more weeks to secure lucrative federal tax incentives. After that crucial deadline, the hard part begins. Last summer, President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, creating a drop-dead date of July 4, 2026, for solar and wind developers…
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