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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 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

A view of utility-scale solar panels on public land in the California desert. Credit: Tom Brewster/Bureau of Land Management

BLM Plan for Solar on Public Lands Sparks Enthusiasm and Misgivings in Different Corners of the West

By Wyatt Myskow, Jake Bolster

A heat pump is installed at a home in Standish, Maine. Credit: Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

New Federal Housing Grants Are a Win for Climate Change and Environmental Justice

By Kristoffer Tigue

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

An aerial view of the MCE Solar One utility-scale solar farm on April 25 in Richmond, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The US Appetite for Electricity Grew Massively in the First Half of 2024, and Solar Power Rose to the Occasion

By Dan Gearino

Utility solar, like the one pictured, have taken off in California. Wyoming could soon be home to similarly large projects, but it’s progress on solar development still lags behind many of its western peers. Credit: Tom Brewster/Bureau of Land Management

Will the Cowboy State See the Light on Solar Electricity?

By Jake Bolster

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

Rusty Bell, director of Gillette College’s Office of Economic Transformation, and Justin Loyka, energy program director with the Nature Conservancy in Wyoming, discuss potential solar sighting on coal mines near Gillette, Wyo. Credit: Jake Bolster/Inside Climate News

Mining the Sun: Some in the Wyoming Epicenter of the Coal Industry Hope to Sustain Its Economy With Renewables

By Jake Bolster

A researcher from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reviews hail damage at a solar array at Fort Carson in Colorado in 2019. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

How Can Solar Farms Defend Against Biblical-Level Hailstorms?

By Dan Gearino

A high tension electrical power pole is seen in the background of a solar array in Blaine, Minn. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Midwest States Have Approved Hundreds of Renewable Energy Projects. So Why Aren’t They Online?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Debris is scattered throughout a solar panel field in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Humacao, Puerto Rico on Oct. 2, 2017. Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images

Hurricane Winds Can Destroy Solar Panels, But Developers Are Working to Fortify Them

By Kiley Price

Mark Forrest, Madison County commissioner and owner of a horse boarding business, stands with one of his horses, Pepe. Forrest lost his bid for re-election in the Republican primary in part because of his support for the Oak Run solar project. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Ohio Solar Mounts a Comeback in the Face of a Campaign Whose Alleged Villains Include China and Bill Gates

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

The Bonneville Environmental Foundation will administer federal grants to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming under the new Solar for All Program. Credit: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Biden Administration Awards Wyoming $30 Million From New ‘Solar for All’ Grant

By Jake Bolster

The Biden Administration Makes Two Big Moves To Conserve Public Lands, Sparking Backlash From Industry

By Kiley Price

A view of a large array of solar panels, located one hour north of Los Angeles in Kern County near Mojave, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

How Do Neighbors of Solar Farms Really Feel? A New Survey Has Answers

By Dan Gearino

A sheep grazes among photovoltaic solar panels in the village of Hjolderup, Denmark. Credit: Sergei Gapon/AFP via Getty Images

In Wyoming, Sheep May Safely Graze Under Solar Panels in One of the State’s First “Agrivoltaic” Projects

By Jake Bolster

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