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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

The Cirata Floating Solar Power Plant in Jakarta consists of 340,000 solar panels and has a capacity of 192 megawatts. Credit: Anna McNulty/Inside Climate News

Awaiting Promised Support From the West, Indonesia Proceeds With Its Ambitious Energy Transition

By Anna McNulty

An aerial view of solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Bigger and Less Expensive: A Snapshot of U.S. Rooftop Solar Power and How It’s Changed

By Dan Gearino

Electricians from Coquí Solar install two racks of solar panels onto a rooftop in Salinas, Puerto Rico. Each panel produces 315 watts of power that can be stored in solar batteries for use during an electrical blackout. Credit: Esther Frances/Medill News Service

A Puerto Rico Community Pushes for Rooftop Solar as Fossil-Fuel Plants Face Retirement

By Esther Frances

GRID Alternatives is a leading recipient of grants from the federal Solar for All program announced on Monday. The organization installs solar systems, primarily for low-income households, as shown in this October 2023 install in Colorado. Credit: GRID Alternatives

IRA’s Solar for All Program Will Install Nearly 1 Million Systems in US

By Dan Gearino

Members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe host a local tribal powwow on the eve of a solar eclipse in Riverton, Wyo. on August 20, 2017. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

In Wyoming, a Tribe and a City Pursue Clean Energy Funds Spurned by the Governor

By Jake Bolster

This rooftop houses 167 solar electric panels which supply energy a 45-unit apartment complex in Portland, Maine. Credit: Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Q&A: How The Federal Biden Administration Plans to Roll Out $20 Billion in Financing for Clean Energy Development

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Scientists Are Studying the Funky Environmental Impacts of Eclipses—From Grid Disruptions to Unusual Animal Behavior

By Kiley Price

Wind turbines are seen at sunset in Williamsburg, Iowa on Aug. 14, 2023. Slow wind speeds in the Midwest during warmer months contributed to the decrease in electricity generated from wind farms. Credit: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Federal Data Reveals a Surprising Drop in Renewable Power in 2023, as Slow Winds and Drought Took a Toll

By Dan Gearino

A solar power facility in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Green Energy Justice Cooperative Selected to Develop Solar Projects for Low Income, BIPOC Communities in Illinois

By Lydia Larsen

A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Wind turbines on a wind farm.

Korea’s Jeju Island Is a Leader in Clean Energy. But It’s Increasingly Having to Curtail Its Renewables

By June Kim

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