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Illinois legislators passed a major energy bill that creates grid-battery and geothermal incentives and a virtual-power-plant program, during the final hours of a fall veto session Thursday. Advocates and industry sources describe the legislation as the crucial next step in the state’s clean-energy transition,…

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Election Day is almost here, and while the White House and Congress aren’t up for grabs this time around, energy issues are on the ballot in several major races. Here are five elections where rising power…

It’s a known problem that onshore wind turbines kill bats. But it’s unclear whether the same issue applies to offshore wind installations — and the Trump administration just canceled groundbreaking research into the question. Earlier this month, the nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) received a…

The race for two seats on the obscure board that regulates Georgia’s utilities is drawing national attention — and could have major implications both for electricity affordability and one of the biggest planned fossil-fuel buildouts in the nation. Next Tuesday, Georgia voters will choose whether to keep the state’s…

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Batteries have quickly become a crucial part of the U.S. electricity grid — and a whole lot more are about to come online. Over the next five years, the country will build nearly 67 gigawatts’ worth of new utility-scale batteries, per data from research…

In the final days before the election, candidates around the country are putting rising electricity bills on center stage — and that’s especially true in Virginia, where voters are on edge about the explosion of data centers and their voracious demand for energy. But it’s one thing to complain about costs. What…

When Matt Cooper found out in 2020 that the northwest Colorado coal mine where he works would close by the end of the decade, he was pissed. Questions raced through his mind: Why didn’t the mine’s leaders fight harder to keep it open? And why was the coal industry being singled out? “Is it political?” he wondered. …

Massachusetts heat-pump owners will spend less to stay warm this winter, thanks to an innovative policy going into effect this weekend. The state’s three investor-owned electric utilities — Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil — are all offering lower winter rates to the roughly 100,000 households with electric…

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for its newsletter here . New York is violating its climate law — and doesn’t get a pass because implementing the law is “complicated,” a judge found Friday. The 2019 law, which remains one…

Maine and Connecticut are considering working together to build renewable-energy projects faster, a strategy that could be repeated throughout the region as states with ambitious emissions-reduction goals race to take advantage of federal tax credits before they disappear. “They’re trying to collaborate, trying to…

Hyundai Motor Group says its plan to invest $6 billion in a low-carbon steel plant in Louisiana “remains unchanged,” despite the Trump administration’s cuts to tax credits for the green hydrogen needed to produce clean iron and a recent immigration raid on a factory the automaker is building in Georgia. In a…

Eavor , an advanced-geothermal startup, says it has significantly reduced drilling times and improved technologies at its nearly online project in Germany — milestones that should help it drive down the costs of harnessing clean energy from the ground. On Tuesday, the Canadian company released results from two years…

A new policy in China could ramp up the nation’s production of green hydrogen for use in airplanes, ships, and other heavy industries, potentially eclipsing output of the fuel in the United States and Europe. Earlier this month, the National Development and Reform Commission — the high-ranking executive department…

An Indiana utility has come up with an unusual plan for meeting growing power demand from data centers. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. is launching a spinoff company, GenCo, that is exempt from many of the regulatory proceedings typically required before power plants can be built in the state. The utility, also…

When Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, first nominated Marissa Gillett to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in 2019, he praised the “ outsider’s perspective ” she would bring to the state’s energy challenges. This September, just months after a bruising reconfirmation process, she stepped down , citing…

In the early 2000s, the owners of the Mammoth Pacific geothermal station proposed expanding the plant into an area just east of California’s Yosemite National Park. The project boasted on its website in 2004 that the potential new wells, which would be located in one of the state’s richest heat resources, had been…

CEOs of artificial-intelligence companies want to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building their energy-gobbling data centers, but that can’t happen without the necessary electricity supply. And they want to move way faster than electric utilities are used to. One idea gaining traction is to allow data centers…

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Energy affordability has become a flash point over the past few months. It’s a key issue in this year’s gubernatorial races . It’s something President Donald Trump has promised to fix by boosting…

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . If you thought the world built a lot of renewables in the past few years, just wait for the next half of this decade. Between 2025 and 2030, the world is expected to build nearly 4,600 gigawatts — or 4.6 terawatts, if you please — of clean power, according…