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Red States Stand to Benefit From a ‘Layer Cake’ of Tax Breaks From Inflation Reduction Act

The new law has stackable tax credits, including an “energy communities” bonus to help places that lost fossil fuel jobs, that could reduce clean energy project costs by 40% to 70%.

By Dan Gearino

An ENGIE employee walks past solar panels at the ENGIE Sun Valley Solar project in Hill County, Texas, on March 1, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images
Two solar workers install solar panels on home in Oak View, Southern California. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Environmental Groups File Court Challenge on California Rooftop Solar Policy

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Workers install solar panels on the roofs of homes under construction south of Corona, California on May 3, 2018. Credit: Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images

California Enters ‘Uncharted Territory’ After Cutting Payments to Rooftop Solar Owners by 75 Percent

By Dan Gearino

Construction at the Double Black Diamond solar project in southeast Sangamon County on March 20, 2023 near Virden, Illinois. Photo Courtesy of Rich Saal/Swift Current Energy of Boston

Look Out, California: One of the Country’s Largest Solar Arrays is Taking Shape in… Illinois?

By Dan Gearino

Sunrun installers place solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills, California. Credit: Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Denies Bid from Home Solar Company to Sell Power as a ‘Micro-Utility’

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Coal miners, their faces smeared with coal dust in a coal mine, in Cumberland, Kentucky, around 1945. Credit: Curtis Wainscott/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images

Why Kentucky Is Dead Last for Wind and Solar Production

By James Bruggers, Dan Gearino

Solar tracker panels follow the sun's path on May 17, 2014 on a Champlain Valley dairy farm near West Haven, Vermont. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Do Solar Farms Lower Property Values? A New Study Has Some Answers

By Dan Gearino

An Engie employee looks out toward the wind turbines during a tour for the dedication of the Limestone Wind Project in Dawson, Texas, on Feb. 28, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

One State Generates Much, Much More Renewable Energy Than Any Other—and It’s Not California

By Dan Gearino

Randy DeBaillie walks toward his solar panels at his farm in Orion, Illinois on Feb. 3, 2019. Credit: Youngrae Kim for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Illinois Put a Stop to Local Governments’ Ability to Kill Solar and Wind Projects. Will Other Midwestern States Follow?

By Dan Gearino, Aydali Campa

The Fairbault Community Solar project, located just east of Faribault, Minnesota. Credit: Cooperative Energy Futures

Community Solar Is About to Get a Surge in Federal Funding. So What Is Community Solar?

By Dan Gearino

Solar panels sprawl across the Mojave Desert on Aug. 14, 2022 near California City, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Public Lands in the US Have Long Been Disposed to Fossil Fuel Companies. Now, the Lands Are Being Offered to Solar Companies

By Wyatt Myskow

Assorted Lego pieces on display at a 'Dream Toys' event on Nov. 14, 2018 in London, England. Credit: Jack Taylor/Getty Images

What Lego—Yes, Lego—Can Teach Us About Avoiding Energy Project Boondoggles

By Dan Gearino

A train carrying cars loaded with coal leaving a nearby coal mine is seen in front of Dry Fork Station, a coal fired power plant operated by Basin Electric Power Cooperative on Monday May 8, 2017 in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Wind and Solar Are Cheaper Than the Costs to Operate All But One Coal-Fired Power Plant in the United States

By Dan Gearino

View from below of panels on a solar carport under a blue sky at a parking structure in Walnut Creek, California, March 8, 2019. Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images

In the Race to Develop the Best Solar Power Materials, What If the Key Ingredient Is Effort?

By Dan Gearino

Mark Schein stands at the edge of a field last week, a few miles from his farm in Pickaway County, Ohio. Credit: Dan Gearino

In the End, Solar Power Opponents Prevail in Williamsport, Ohio

By Dan Gearino

Ed Eichten stands next to a solar array on his farm near Center City, Minnesota. Credit: Dan Gearino

One Farmer Set Off a Solar Energy Boom in Rural Minnesota; 10 Years Later, Here’s How It Worked Out

By Dan Gearino

A large array of solar panels, located one hour north of Los Angeles in Kern County, is viewed on Nov. 15, 2022, near Mojave, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Finally, Some Good Climate News: The Biggest Wins in Clean Energy in 2022

By Dan Gearino

Hyundai Home energy ecosystem products on a tiny home with a Hyundai IONIQ 5 electric vehicle being charged in Fountain Valley, California on Oct. 26, 2021. Credit: Hyundai

Car Companies Are Now Bundling EVs With Home Solar Panels. Are Customers Going to Buy?

By Dan Gearino

Sharon and Michael Wildermuth eat lunch at their house near Lima, Ohio, on Nov. 17, 2022. Michael is the founder and leader of an organization supporting a solar power project in the community. Credit: Dan Gearino

One Man’s Determined Fight for Solar Power in Rural Ohio

By Dan Gearino

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