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Solar Energy

Warming Trends: A Comedy With Solar Themes, a Greener Cryptocurrency and the Underestimated Climate Supermajority

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Josh Brener (right) plays solar panel salesman Sid in the new movie "Bromates." Courtesy of Quiver Distribution
Power lines in West Reading, Pennsylvania, February 2021. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Overwhelmed by Solar Projects, the Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Seeks a Two-Year Pause on Approvals

By James Bruggers

Xcel's Comanche Generating Station, the largest power plant in Colorado, runs on coal. Credit: Andy Cross/Denver Post via Getty Images

Utilities Have Big Plans to Cut Emissions, But They’re Struggling to Shed Fossil Fuels

By Dan Gearino

A solar farm built over water in China. Credit: Stringer/AFP/Getty Images

Renewable Energy's Booming, But Still Falling Far Short of Climate Goals

By Kristoffer Tigue

One possibility being explored in several states is to develop rates based on the value of rooftop solar power to the grid, including environmental benefits. Credit: Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

As Rooftop Solar Grows, What Should the Future of Net Metering Look Like?

By Dan Gearino

A sea of solar panels in a north Indian desert is part of the government's clean energy push. Credit: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images

India Is Now Investing More in Solar than Coal, but Will Its Energy Shift Continue?

By Phil McKenna

Memphis at dusk, with a banner celebrating an anniversary of Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the municipal utility. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

Cities Pressure TVA to Boost Renewable Energy & One Considers Breaking Away

By James Bruggers

Ideal Solar’s owners, Troy and Amy Van Beek, walk among the solar panels at the Maharishi University of Management’s solar array. Credit: Dan Gearino/InsideClimate News

Entrepreneurs Built Iowa’s Solar Economy. A Utility’s Push for Solar Fees Could Shut Them Down.

By Dan Gearino

National Renewable Energy Lab researcher David Moore holds a perovskite ink painted solar cell. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

Trump's Budget Cuts Could Have a Chilling Effect on U.S. Clean Energy Leadership

By Dan Gearino

Remote regions of Puerto Rico have been using solar power for years. Now the U.S. territory’s legislature has approved a rapid, territory-wide scale-up to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Passes 100% Clean Energy Bill. Will Natural Gas Imports Get in the Way?

By Phil McKenna

Maintenance workers on a solar farm. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Wind & Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal in Much of the U.S., New Analysis Finds

By Dan Gearino

An illustration of a grid-scale energy storage system GE Power unveiled in 2018. Credit: GE Power

100% Renewable Energy Needs Lots of Storage. This Polar Vortex Test Showed How Much.

By Dan Gearino

Solar installers work on a home rooftop in Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

U.S. Solar Jobs Fell with Trump’s Tariffs, But These States Are Adding More

By Dan Gearino

Offshore wind turbines. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

What the Government's Energy Outlook Misses and Why It Matters

By Dan Gearino

Xcel Energy's Rush Creek Wind Farm mixes renewable energy and agriculture. Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty

A Clean Energy Revolution Is Rising in the Midwest, with Utilities in the Vanguard

By Dan Gearino

Illinois has a lot of wind power but limited solar capacity. That's about to change fast under an ambitious renewable energy law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Can Illinois Handle a 2000% Jump in Solar Capacity? We’re About to Find Out.

By Dan Gearino

A solar installer on a rooftop. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Most Worrying Rooftop Solar Fight Since Nevada Cut Net-Metering Hits Michigan

By Dan Gearino

Grand Ridge in Illinois combines wind and solar power in one site to save money and increase its power supply. Credit: Invenergy

Pairing Wind & Solar for Cheaper, 24-Hour Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

Imported solar panels on Vermont-made arrays designed to track the sun. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Election 2018: Clean Energy’s Future Could Rise or Fall with These Governor’s Races

By Dan Gearino, Marianne Lavelle

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