Alicia Brown, director of the Georgia Bright Coalition , wants people to know that the $7 billion Solar for All program is starting to bring affordable solar power to her home state — even as the Trump administration threatens to kill it. With the $156 million Solar for All grant the coalition won last year, it’s…| Canary Media
Energy storage is having a moment — but the batteries that are taking off today only have enough juice to provide a few hours of grid power. Developers technically could stack up more batteries for longer-term storage, but that gets prohibitively expensive. For a renewables-dominated grid to ride out days of poor…| Canary Media
A surge of housing development in a Boston suburb is providing evidence that natural-gas bans and strict energy-efficiency standards do not slow new construction or make it more expensive. Indeed, these guidelines can even boost the growth of affordable housing, say local advocates. In 2024, Lexington,…| Canary Media
Some people had sourdough to help get them through the pandemic. Zach Whitney had coffee beans. The former barista began experimenting during the COVID-19 lockdown with a small, electric coffee roaster, seeing what flavors he could coax from tiny batches of fresh beans in his suburban Minneapolis kitchen. “Unlike…| Canary Media
Illinois has big plans for electric vehicles — but they won't happen unless residents of its biggest city, Chicago, embrace the battery-powered cars. That's where EV ambassadors like William Davis come in. Davis is one of a handful of community leaders working with utility ComEd under a new program that’s meant to…| Canary Media
At the end of June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law AB 130 , a sweeping bill that aims to make it easier to build housing, reforms that many lawmakers and experts agree are long overdue given the state’s severe housing crisis. But one provision could needlessly slow the state’s progress on its…| Canary Media
The humble streetlight doesn’t look like a particularly attractive target for theft. But in Los Angeles, a mind-boggling 27,000 miles of copper wire connect those lights to the power grid — and thieves are tearing that wire out at an alarming rate. Public employees can’t keep up with repairs, leaving frustrated…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. This week, the EPA officially proposed revoking its endangerment finding: a 2009 declaration that affirmed greenhouse gas emissions harm human health. The finding underpins many of the agency’s most…| Canary Media
Offshore wind leasing is effectively dead in the U.S. following a Trump administration order issued this week. Large swaths of U.S. waters that had been identified by federal agencies as ideal for offshore wind are no longer eligible for such developments under an Interior Department statement released Wednesday. …| Canary Media
Welcome to Ohio Utility Watch, a periodic newsletter tracking developments in Ohio’s ongoing public-corruption saga, often referred to as the House Bill 6 scandal. If you’re new to the subject, here is an overview . In brief: Utility companies used dark money groups to route roughly $60 million in bribes to…| Canary Media
After a decade of urging from clean energy advocates, utility Duke Energy finally has a plan to let its North Carolina customers access detailed information about their electricity use. Approved by state regulators on July 16, the program has backing from the state customer advocate and the North Carolina…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Just under three years ago, the Inflation Reduction Act went into law and generated tens of billions of dollars’ worth of investment in domestic manufacturing of clean energy technologies. President Donald Trump has turned that wave into a ripple. Since…| Canary Media
The " Eating the Earth ” column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. These days, I’m sure it’s frustrating and depressing to spend your time thinking about energy and climate issues. Global coal use hit an all-time high last year. So did greenhouse gas emissions from…| Canary Media
New York just took a big leap toward zero-emissions buildings. On July 25, the State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council approved an all-electric building standard , making New York the first state in the nation to prohibit gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings. Legislators and climate advocates…| Canary Media
Plans are in the works to build America’s first new aluminum smelters in nearly half a century. The two facilities, slated to go online in Oklahoma and possibly Kentucky in the coming years, would dramatically boost domestic production of the versatile metal if completed as planned. But for that to happen, they will…| Canary Media
The starting gun for the long-promised U.S. nuclear renaissance might have just gone off. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced late last week that it has granted several key approvals that Holtec International needs to restart Michigan’s 800-megawatt Palisades Nuclear Plant three years after the facility…| Canary Media
Five years ago, B2U Storage Solutions proved that old EV batteries could hook up to the grid to store clean energy, safely and cheaply. Now the company is taking the concept to Texas. B2U just broke ground on a second-life grid battery project in Bexar County, near San Antonio, the company told Canary Media. In the…| Canary Media
The country’s biggest power market is caught in a trap of its own making — and the more than 65 million people from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes who rely on it for electricity will pay the price. Last week, PJM Interconnection announced a new record in its annual capacity auction , the means by which…| Canary Media
The rooftop solar industry is facing an unprecedented crisis. Utilities are cutting incentives . Major residential solar installers and financiers have gone bankrupt . And sweeping legislation just passed by Republicans in Congress will soon cut off federal tax credits that have supported the sector for 20 years. …| Canary Media
A controversial bill to unravel North Carolina’s climate law would cost the state more than 50,000 jobs annually and cause tens of billions of dollars in lost investments, a new study finds. The research comes days before the Republican-controlled state legislature aims to override a veto of the measure by Gov. Josh…| Canary Media
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. So far, 2025 has been a mixed bag for EV sales in the U.S. A record 607,089 EVs left the lot in the first six months of the year, Cox Automotive reports , but sales in the second quarter were still lower…| Canary Media
Massachusetts regulators are considering a plan to make heat pumps an obvious financial choice for most residents. The state Department of Public Utilities is mulling a proposal to heavily discount electricity rates in the winter months for households with heat pumps, a move that could cut energy bills for more than…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . It’s getting easier and easier to find a public EV charger in the U.S. Between 2020 and 2024, the number of public EV charging ports available to U.S. drivers doubled, reaching nearly 200,000 by the end of last year, according to International Energy Agency…| Canary Media
Maine is sprinting to build clean energy projects before federal tax credits expire. State utility regulators are fast-tracking plans to procure nearly 1,600 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy , with the goal of getting projects started before key incentives disappear under the budget law signed by President Donald…| Canary Media
Southern California’s grid needed help in the fall of 2016. The region was still reeling from the calamitous Aliso Canyon gas leak, and its power plants faced a potential shortfall of that fuel to meet air-conditioning demand when the next summer rolled around. The state took a chance on a new grid technology ,…| Canary Media
The Trump administration just dealt a blow to the biggest transmission line project currently underway in the United States. The U.S. Department of Energy has canceled a $4.9 billion federal loan guarantee for the Grain Belt Express , a massive transmission line project seeking to carry wind and solar energy from…| Canary Media
New Hampshire’s new state budget redirects an estimated $15 million from a dedicated renewable energy fund into the general fund, likely signaling the end of plans to expand a popular pilot supporting municipal solar developments. While some New England states have moved to strengthen clean energy policy in the face…| Canary Media
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. Have you been sitting on the sidelines, waiting to decarbonize your home and commute? It may be time to jump into action. The “ Big,…| Canary Media
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . June was a monumental month in the European Union: For the first time ever, it got more electricity from solar power than any other source. Solar provided 22.2% of the region’s electricity, per clean-energy think tank Ember , unseating nuclear and beating…| Canary Media
Legislation just passed by the Senate would undo clean-energy tax credits, slowing the addition of new power to the grid and saddling customers with…| Canary Media
The leading newsroom covering the transition to clean energy, electrification and climate solutions. We report on how the world is decarbonizing with a…| Canary Media
In Sacramento, California, property owner BRIDGE Housing moved ahead with a heat-pump-plus retrofit designed to save both itself and its residents money.| Canary Media