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Cheryl Shadden stands outside her home in Granbury, Texas, with a view of Constellation Energy's Wolf Hollow II power plant in the background. Credit: Keaton Peters/Inside Climate News

Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid

By Keaton Peters

In the race for West Virginia Governor, it’s Huntington Mayor Steve Williams against Patrick Morrisey, the state’s attorney general. Credit: City of Huntington and WV Attorney General Office

Vying for West Virginia Governor, an ‘All of the Above’ Democrat Faces Long Odds Against a Republican Fossil Fuel Booster

By James Bruggers

A worker carries a solar panel for installation on the roof of a home in Las Vegas. Credit: David Becker/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Batteries and Rooftop Solar Can Lead to Huge Savings for the Entire Grid. A New Study Shows How—and How Much

By Dan Gearino

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

Heavy electrical transmission lines are located in California's Mojave Desert near the stateline community of Primm, Nevada. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

This Week’s Landmark Transmission Rule Forces Utilities to Take the Long View

By Dan Gearino

A rendering of Silver City Energy Centre, a compressed air energy storage plant to be built by Hydrostor in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Hydrostor

A Major Technology for Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Approaching Its Moment of Truth

By Dan Gearino

Linemen work on a rebuild of Northwestern Energy transmissions lines in Livingston, Montana. Credit: William Campbell/Getty Images

Western States Could Make Billions Selling Renewable Energy, But They’ll Need a Lot More Regional Transmission Lines

By Wyatt Myskow

The Enviva Southampton plant located outside Courtland and Franklin, Virginia has a production capacity of 760,000 metric tons of pellets per year, according to the company. Credit: Tom Brennan

How Clean Energy Tax Breaks Could Fuel a US Wood Burning Boom

By James Bruggers

A worker is seen inside Dry Fork Station, a coal-fired power plant in Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Coal Power Plunged Again in 2023 and Is Fading Away in the U.S. So What Replaces It?

By Dan Gearino

The Orlando Utilities Commission, which operates the Stanton Energy Center, said the facility is compliant and has not received any word from the EPA indicating otherwise. Credit: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

EPA Reports ‘Widespread Noncompliance’ With the Nation’s First Regulations on Toxic Coal Ash

By Amy Green

The statue of the author Hans Christian Anderson at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, photographed in August. The city is known for being bike-friendly and this street, Hans Christian Anderson Boulevard, sometimes feels like highway for bicycles. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Denmark, a Global Climate Policy Leader, Strains to Live Up to High Ambitions

By Dan Gearino

Employees of Sontec GmbH assemble photovoltaic modules on the roof of a residential building in Germany.

This Number Helps Explain Why Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Attractive in Many States

By Dan Gearino

Dusk falls on the existing Southern Trails natural gas pipeline owned by the Navajo Nation as it passes through empty land west of Shiprock, New Mexico. Locals say someone showed up and put in the yellow markers a few months earlier. Credit: Jerry Redfern.

Industry Wants New Pipeline on Navajo Land Scarred by Decades of Fossil Fuel Extraction

Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

High power electrical transmission lines seen on April 22, 2023, near McKittrick, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Frustrated by Outdated Grids, Consumers Are Lobbying for Control of Their Electricity

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Views of a radically altered natural environment in southern West Virginia due to extensive mountain top removal coal mining and logging. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Soaring West Virginia Electricity Prices Trigger Standoff Over the State’s Devotion to Coal Power

By Marianne Lavelle

Power lines along Ruland Road in Melville, New York on Feb. 13, 2020. Credit: Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images

The New US Climate Law Will Reduce Carbon Emissions and Make Electricity Less Expensive, Economists Say

By Marianne Lavelle

The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California on Sept. 3, 2020, ahead of a heatwave. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Coming this Summer: Spiking Electricity Bills Plus Blackouts

By Dan Gearino

Power lines on utility poles in Smithtown, New York on June 29, 2021. Credit: Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here’s Why That Helps the Cleanest (and Dirtiest) Electricity Sources

By Dan Gearino

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