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Scott Hensen, vice president of floor planning for KB Home, points to a battery display panel on a SunPower SunValut storage system inside the garage of a model home during a tour of KB Home microgrid communities in Menifee on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images

Study: Microgrids Could Reduce California Power Shutoffs—to a Point

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Milton R. Young Power Plant, located near Center, North Dakota, which is the site of Project Tundra, a plan to retrofit the plant with a carbon capture system. Credit: Minnkota Power

Carbon Capture Faces a Major Test in North Dakota

By Dan Gearino

Power lines in Alexandria, Virginia. Credit: Thomas Simonetti/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Country’s Largest Grid Operator Must Process and Connect Backlogged Clean Energy Projects, a New Report Says

By Kathiann M. Kowalski

A man cools himself down with water from a water fountain during one of the hottest days of the third heat wave in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on June 12, 2023. Credit: Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Is Already Straining the Mexican Power Grid

By Gina Jiménez

Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Climate Change Made the Texas Heat Wave More Intense. Renewables Softened the Blow

By Kristoffer Tigue

The sign of the manufacturer of solar batteries, Sonnen GmbH, in the Bavarian village Wildpoldsried, southern Germany, is pictured on July 5, 2016. Credit: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images

Virtual Power Plants Are Coming to Save the Grid, Sooner Than You Might Think

By Dan Gearino

Polluting vehicles and the Baltimore skyline, from Federal Hill Park. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images.

Maryland Urged to Cut Emissions By Swiftly Adopting Rules Electrifying Cars and Trucks

By Aman Azhar

A residential grid-tied solar array in installed on a hillside in Malibu, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Noting a Mountain of Delays, California Lawmakers Advance Bills Designed to Speed Grid Connections

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Democrat Josh Shapiro delivers his victory speech on November 8, 2022, after his election as Pennsylvania governor. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images.

Secretive State Climate Talks Stir Discontent With Pennsylvania Governor

By Kiley Bense

An aerial view of solar panels installed on the roof of buildings at a machinery equipment manufacturing industrial park in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China, on June 7, 2023. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Inexpensive Solar Panels Are Essential for the Energy Transition. Here’s What’s Happening With Prices Right Now

By Dan Gearino

Long Island Power Authority power lines along Motor Lane in Bethpage, New York on March 8, 2019. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

States Test an Unusual Idea: Tying Electric Utilities’ Profit to Performance

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Electric vehicles (EV) line up outside a Tesla dealership in Melbourne on April 19, 2023. Credit: William West/AFP via Getty Images

It’s the Features, Stupid: EV Market Share Is Growing Because the Vehicles Keep Getting Better

By Dan Gearino

Artisanal miners carry sacks of ore at the Shabara artisanal mine near Kolwezi on October 12, 2022. Credit: Junior Kannah/AFP via Getty Images

Mining Critical to Renewable Energy Tied to Hundreds of Alleged Human Rights Abuses

By Katie Surma

Rowan Atkinson attends the UK Premiere of "Man Vs Bee" at Everyman Borough Yards on June 19, 2022 in London, England. Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images

Regardless of What Mr. Bean Says, EVs Are Much Better for the Environment than Gasoline Vehicles

By Dan Gearino

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm testifies during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Committee hearing titled Fiscal Year 2024 Request for the Department of Energy, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Federal Hydrogen Program Is Cutting Out Local Groups, Threatening Climate Goals, Advocates Say

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Milwaukee skyline with Lake Michigan in the background is seen at night on Jan. 6, 2020 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Credit: Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images

Cities Stand to Win Big With the Inflation Reduction Act. How Do They Turn This Opportunity Into Results?

By Dan Gearino

Along with DFL legislative leaders and his commissioners, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz threw a ceremonial budget bill-signing party on May 24, 2023 on the State Capitol steps. Credit: Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images

Minnesota Emerges as the Midwest’s Leader in the Clean Energy Transition

By Aydali Campa

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