The German government has agreed to a multi-billion Euro compensation deal with major utility firms on Friday over its ongoing nuclear energy phase-out. The majority of the €2.4 billion…
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Accurate descriptions of the U.S. clean energy market have always required a bit of nuance. Installations of solar panels, wind turbines and energy storage have…
Duke Energy’s plan to build gigawatts’ worth of new natural-gas generators to supply its grid over the next 15 years has already drawn fire from…
FlexGen supplied large-scale grid batteries to ERCOT before the energy storage market took off there. Now, the founder has exited and the company has brought…
The business of demand response — cutting energy use to reduce peak grid demands — has evolved with the growing capability of technologies to enable…
The lush island nation of Samoa and the densely packed urban neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn may seem to have little in common. Yet they are both…
In September 2020, China’s President Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly that the country was aiming to be carbon neutral by 2060. In December…
The Biden administration stood behind Trump’s stance on solar tariffs in a Monday filing with the U.S. International Court of Trade, a move that could…
In the spring of 2019, the sky in parts of West Texas opened up, in some areas dropping hailstones as big as baseballs, according to the…
The financial fallout from the Texas energy system collapse of two weeks ago has begun. And with tens of billions of dollars in energy costs…
Green hydrogen is both an untested and potentially vital way for renewable energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for…
The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that…
The catastrophic breakdown of Texas’ natural gas and electricity system last week lacks a single villain to blame for it all. Instead, the widespread constraints in natural-gas supply and…
Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting…
The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to confirm former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as Secretary of the Department of Energy, kicking off the administration’s grand…
Electric school buses don’t just eliminate the carbon and pollution emissions of their diesel-fueled counterparts; they also cost less to fuel and maintain over the long haul. …
A strong clean energy standard is among the most vital policy steps needed to push the United States towards an entirely decarbonized economy, according to new emissions modeling…
The U.S. could double its capacity for new wind and solar power, save billions of dollars and cut millions of tons of carbon-dioxide emissions from…
Exelon Corp. announced plans Wednesday to separate its financially challenged nuclear power plant fleet and other generation assets from its multistate regulated utilities business. The plan, which…
A new green steel venture in Sweden has been launched with bold plans to start production as early as 2024. The H2 Green Steel initiative…