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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

Workers install one of the main power transformers for Silicon Ranch’s solar farm in Georgetown County, S.C. Credit: Courtesy of Silicon Ranch

South Carolina Is Untapped Ground for Solar Energy

By Carrie Klein

An aerial view of the Fort Powhatan solar farm in Disputanta, Va. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Virginia Debate Over Solar Development Goals and Land Use Has Rural Lawmakers on Edge

By Charles Paullin

An aerial view of wind turbines on the spine of Backbone Mountain next to a coal processing plant in Oakland, Md. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Maryland’s Renewable Energy Program: More Smoke and Mirrors Than Wind and Solar, New Report Alleges

By Aman Azhar

President Joe Biden speaks about his climate investments during a press conference at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on Sept. 14, 2021, in Arvada, Colo. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

‘We Needed More Time’: As Biden Leaves Office, His Climate Legacy Remains Incomplete

By Marianne Lavelle

A contractor visits Amparo Vigil's building in San Francisco's outer Mission District in September 2024 before putting in a bid to work on a solar panel installation and the transition to electric heat pumps and other appliances. Credit: Twilight Greenaway/Inside Climate News

Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That

By Twilight Greenaway

Social Scientist Dustin Mulvaney Discusses Solar Power, Trump and the Need to Prioritize Environmental Justice

By Dan Gearino

An installer with Namaste Solar secures panels for a photovoltaic solar array system on the roof of a house in Aurora, Colo. Credit: Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Community Solar Buying Programs Provide Discounts and Protections to Homeowners, but Worry Some Companies

By Tim Drugan

An aerial view of the Yellow Pine project near Pahrump, Nev. Credit: Patrick Donnelly

How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West

By Jimmy Tobias

GRID Alternatives employees install no-cost solar panels on the rooftop of a low-income household on Oct. 19, 2023 in Pomona, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Rooftop Solar Keeps Getting More Accessible Across Incomes. Here’s Why

By Dan Gearino

Workers place encapsulation material on solar panels at the Elin Energys solar panel manufacturing facility on April 25 in Brookshire, Texas. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Clean Energy Advocates and Businesses Wrestle With an Uncertain Future as Republicans Target IRA Funds

By Keaton Peters

A pine tree lays on power lines after it was knocked over due to Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee on Sept. 16, 2023 in Eastport, Maine. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The US’s Easternmost City Could Be a Model for the Country’s Renewable Future

By Olivia Gieger

A view of wind turbines and solar panels on March 6 near Palm Springs, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

What Just Happened to the Idea of Progress?

By Dan Gearino

A view of the Brighton Solar field on May 23 in Pueblo, Colo. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

A New Nonprofit Aims to Empower Supporters of Local Renewable Energy Projects

By Dan Gearino

A view of power lines owned by Dominion Energy in Culpeper, Va. Credit: Zack Wajsgras/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Latest Dominion Energy Development Forecasts Raise Ire of Virginia Environmentalists

By Jake Bolster

Mark Carrington exits his golf cart to look out on Lake Tamarisk, a man-made lake in Desert Center, Calif., on May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

As Solar Booms in the California Desert, Locals Feel ‘Overburdened’

By Wyatt Myskow

The 8.5-megawatt solar farm in Houston, Alaska, is comprised of 14,000 solar panels and sits on land that was burned during the devastating 1996 Miller's Reach Fire. Credit: Loren Holmes/ADN

Alaska Utilities Turn to Renewables as Costs Escalate for Fossil Fuel Electricity Generation

By Hal Bernton

An array of solar panels is seen near a dairy farm in St George, Vermont. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Digging Deep to Understand Rural Opposition to Solar Power

By Dan Gearino

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