Clean Energy
The technologies and innovations enabling the decarbonization of the global energy economy and disrupting business-as-usual.
What Happened to the Great Lakes Offshore Wind Boom?
By Nicole Pollack
A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market
By Dan Gearino
As New York Officials Push Clean Hydrogen Project, Indigenous Nation Sees a Threat to Its Land
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Dirty Water and Dead Rice: The Cost of the Clean Energy Transition in Rural Minnesota
By Karina Atkins
Pumped Storage Hydro Could be Key to the Clean Energy Transition. But Where Will the Water Come From?
By Wyatt Myskow
Q&A: The Hopes—and Challenges—for Blue and Green Hydrogen
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Microgrids Can Bolster Creaky Electricity Systems, But Most States Do Little to Encourage Their Development
By Dan Gearino
Why Michigan’s Clean Energy Bill Is a Really Big Deal
By Dan Gearino
What to Make of the EV Market’s Topsy Turvy Year
By Dan Gearino
UAW Settles With Big 3 U.S. Automakers, Hoping to Organize EV Battery Plants
By Dan Gearino and Aydali Campa
Mainers See Climate Promise in Ballot Initiative to Create a Statewide Nonprofit Electric Utility
By Annie Ropeik
A Reality Check About Solar Panel Waste and the Effects on Human Health
By Dan Gearino
Making Solar Energy as Clean as Can Be Means Fitting Square Panels Into the Circular Economy
By Emma Peterson, Wyatt Myskow
Desert Bats Face the Growing, Twin Threats of White-Nose Syndrome and Wind Turbines
By Emma Peterson
Illinois’ Signature Climate Law Has Been Slow to Fulfill Promises for Clean Energy and Jobs
By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times, and Dan Gearino, Inside Climate News
Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar
By Dan Gearino