Jan 30, 2025 · The leading newsroom covering the transition to clean energy, electrification and climate solutions. We report on how the world is decarbonizing with a…

Jan 10, 2025 · Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.. The amount of carbon-free energy built in the U.S. last year far eclipsed the growth of new fossil-fueled power plants. The U.S. grid added a total of just over 56 gigawatts of power capacity last year. A whopping 96 percent of that came from solar, battery, wind, nuclear, and ...

Jan 3, 2025 · The last time President-elect Donald Trump took office, Illinois had just passed the Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA), creating an ambitious renewable electricity mandate, solar incentive programs, green job training, and equity provisions to propel the state’s clean energy economy.That progress is offering both a blueprint and a source of hope for Illinois clean energy and environmental ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Canary thanks Clean Energy Counsel for its support of the column.. In a first for the country, solar and wind generated more electricity than coal over most of 2024.The two renewable energy sources provided a record 17 percent of U.S. electricity from January to November, while ...

Jan 2, 2025 · The current state of the U.S. power sector can be summed up in just a few words: too much demand for electricity; too small of a power grid. In the past two years, electricity demand forecasts have risen dramatically, a sharp reversal after nearly two decades of little-to-no electricity growth.

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Nov 15, 2024 · Utilities across the country have used this same cost-shift argument to fight various state-level policies that benefit rooftop solar. The aim is typically to water down or roll back net-metering programs, which pay customers for the power their rooftop solar systems send back to the grid.. Rooftop solar supporters dispute the cost-shift argument, which originated from the Edison Electric ...

Dec 10, 2024 · Over the past year, tech giants have been eyeing nuclear power as a potential source of round-the-clock carbon-free energy. But an effort by Amazon to secure existing nuclear power for a data center recently ran into a hurdle, and Kimber points out that new nuclear plants can’t be built quickly enough to meet near-term demand from data centers.He fears the emphasis on nuclear power is ...

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