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An aerial view of the Azure Sky Solar Project in Haskell, Texas, on August 12, 2024. Credit: Ramsay de Give/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Texas’ Risk of Summer Blackouts Reduced Thanks to Solar and Batteries

By Arcelia Martin

NineDot Energy’s battery storage and solar project in the Bronx, New York City. Credit: NineDot Energy

Figuring Out a Battery Storage System to Fit New York’s Wind and Solar Ambitions Has Not Been Easy

By Lauren Dalban

An aerial view of Constellation Energy’s nuclear power plant with a wind power turbine in the foreground near Marseilles, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Punts on Plans for Increasing Energy Storage, Renewables

By Leigh Giangreco

A bystander watches a fire burn at the Vistra Corp. battery storage plant on Jan. 17 in Moss Landing, Calif. Credit: Doug Duran/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Researchers Wanted to Understand Concerns With Batteries in Moss Landing, California. Their Funding Just Got Yanked

By Dan Gearino

A view of Jupiter Power’s battery storage complex in Houston. Credit: Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

More Solar and Battery Storage Were Added to Texas’ Grid Than Any Other Power Source Last Year

By Arcelia Martin

Naperville residents urged their City Council at a recent meeting to seek new providers of power after learning that 80 percent of the electricity for the city is sourced from coal plants. Credit: Courtesy of Hunter Byington

With Fossil Fuels’ Comeback, Can Climate Goals Get Back on Track in Illinois?

By Brett Chase, Chicago Sun-Times

Flames and smoke rise from the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility after a fire erupted on Jan. 16 in Monterey Bay, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Moss Landing Battery Fire Leads to Health Fears, Evidence of Contamination and Concerns About Overreaction

By Dan Gearino, Kiley Price

A fire erupts at the Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility on Jan. 16 in Monterey County, Calif. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Making Sense of the Giant Fire that Could Set Back Energy Storage

By Dan Gearino

A visitor looks at sodium-ion battery products at the smart vehicle section of the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Li He/Xinhua via Getty Images

This Low-Cost EV Battery (Kind of) Runs on Salt, and It’s Having a Moment

By Dan Gearino

Painesville, Ohio will get a utility-scale solar farm—like this one in Florida—on the site of a former chemical manufacturing plant. Credit: Marco Bello/AFP via Getty Images

In Northeast Ohio, Hello to Solar and Storage; Goodbye to Coal

By Dan Gearino

A high tension electrical power pole is seen in the background of a solar array in Blaine, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Midwest States Have Approved Hundreds of Renewable Energy Projects. So Why Aren’t They Online?

By Kristoffer Tigue

The shuttered power plant in Morro Bay, Calif., where Vistra Corp. has proposed a 600-megawatt battery storage project on a portion of the site. Credit: Vistra Corp.

On California’s Central Coast, Battery Storage Is on the Ballot

By Erin Rode

The Moss Landing Energy Storage facility has 400 megawatts of capacity and the ability to run at that level for up to four hours. Credit: Vistra Corp.

Inside Clean Energy: Did You Miss Me? A Giant Battery Storage Plant Is Back Online, Just in Time for Summer

By Dan Gearino

Battery blocks are be seen in a commercial battery park. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: US Battery Storage Soared in 2021, Including These Three Monster Projects

By Dan Gearino

The LS Power-Diablo Battery Energy Storage System, a 50,000kW energy storage project located in Contra Costa County, California. Credit: LS Power

Inside Clean Energy: In the New World of Long-Duration Battery Storage, an Old Technology Holds Its Own

By Dan Gearino

The Coal Creek electric power plant in North Dakota will soon close. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: With Planned Closing of N.D. Coal Plant, Energy Transition Comes to Rural America

By Dan Gearino

Trainees check the connections a row of power storage units in a commercial battery facility in Schwerin, Germany. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A California Utility Announces 770 Megawatts of Battery Storage. That’s a Lot.

By Dan Gearino

Divyaraj Desai, a member of the battery team at the CUNY Energy Institute

A Fix for Grid-Scale Battery Storage?

By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News

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