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In early December, Nippon Steel announced it would build a $4 billion steel plant as part of a larger plan to invest $11 billion in its new American subsidiary, U.S. Steel, over the next two years. The facility, the location of which likely won’t be determined until 2027, is expected to include two electric arc…

Texas has witnessed the country’s most dynamic grid battery expansion in recent years, thanks in large part to its famously competitive energy markets. Now, a wonky rule change could undermine batteries’ role in the grid. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas instituted new rules on Dec. 5 called “real-time…

HAYDEN, Colo. — For decades, Dallas Robinson’s family excavation company developed coal mines and power plants in the rugged, fossil-fuel-rich region of northwest Colorado. It was a good business to be in, one that helped hamlets like Hayden grow from outposts to bustling mountain towns — and kept families like…

The Trump administration’s determination to keep fossil-fueled power plants running beyond their scheduled closure dates is creating uncertainty about the fate of two Indiana coal facilities set to retire by the end of this year. Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s 722-megawatt R.M. Schahfer plant, in the…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The Trump administration’s anti-renewables policies have left gigawatts’ worth of new solar and wind projects strangled in red tape. So as Congress revisits energy-permitting reform, which it’s tried and…

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Hot rocks might be the next big thing in energy. Global investment in geothermal energy is growing quickly — and it’s expected to keep climbing in the years to come, per new data from research firm Rystad Energy. At the start of the 2020s, less than $2…

Meghan Wood, CEO of Raya Power , thinks solar and batteries should be as easy to install as a typical household appliance, durable enough to provide backup power for critical devices during storms and heat waves, and sophisticated enough to help lower everyday energy bills. “Solar can give you a return on…

David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore a lapel pin that read “I ♥ Fossil Fuels.” “You want one?” asked a conference attendee, offering me the pin with a smirk. “It can be a souvenir.” Stevenson, with a soft wave, gestured to the man to…

Six years ago, it seemed like the Midwest was well on its way to building the first offshore wind farm in the Great Lakes. Then the project withered on the vine — and a civil lawsuit puts the blame on utility FirstEnergy’s bribery scheme in Ohio. That corruption scandal is best known for leading to the 2019 passage…

The startup Fervo Energy just raised another $462 million to build America’s next generation of geothermal power plants. On Wednesday, the Houston-based company said it closed a Series E funding round led by a new investor, B Capital, a global venture capital firm started by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin. With…

At the start of next year, companies that make and buy energy-intensive commodities like steel and aluminum will enter the era of CBAM — the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. CBAM is a first-in-the-world policy by the European Union that charges fees on imports based on how much planet-warming pollution was…

President Donald Trump’s freeze on approvals of new wind energy projects has been deemed “unlawful” in a federal court. On Monday, Judge Patti B. Saris of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts ruled in favor of 18 state attorneys general who had challenged the temporary ban on onshore and offshore wind…

The New York Power Authority approved a plan Tuesday to nearly double the state-owned utility’s goal for solar, wind, and energy storage projects to 5.5 gigawatts. The new investments would boost clean power in the state as the private market fails to deploy renewable energy fast enough to meet New York’s lofty…

This story was first published by Inside Climate News . In the waning days of Governor Phil Murphy’s tenure, New Jersey officials unveiled an updated Energy Master Plan that calls for 100% clean electricity by 2035 and steep reductions in climate pollution by midcentury. Since 2019, the state has used the first…

ITHACA, N.Y. — A faded-red wellhead emerged in the middle of a pockmarked parking lot, its metal bolts and pipes illuminated only by the headlights of Wayne Bezner Kerr’s electric car. He stepped out of the vehicle into the dark, frigid evening to open the fence enclosing the equipment, which is just down the road…

Since spring of last year, North Carolina's largest utility has been testing whether household batteries can help the electric grid in times of need — and now the company wants to roll out the plan to businesses, local governments, and nonprofits, too. Duke Energy has already paid hundreds of North Carolinians to…

New Haven, Connecticut, has broken ground on an ambitious geothermal energy network that will provide low-emission heating and cooling to the city’s bustling, historic Union Station and a new public housing complex across the street. The project will play a crucial role in the city’s attempt to decarbonize all…

In the race to build America’s first small modular reactors, the U.S. Department of Energy has picked its front-runners. On Tuesday, the agency awarded a total of $800 million in grants, originally allocated under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to two projects developing different kinds of 300-megawatt…

This story was first published by Inside Climate News . The U.S. Department of Energy has approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network to double in size. Gas and electric utility Eversource Energy completed the first phase of its geothermal…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The longest-ever government shutdown has ended, but its impacts on everyday Americans are still trickling out. After weeks of shutdown-induced delays, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in…