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A Minnesota Utility Is Swapping Coal for Solar. It’s Like Taking 780,000 Cars Off the Road

By Kristoffer Tigue

A new residence hall at Creighton University has a solar water heater. Pictured is one of two groups of solar collectors on the roof. Credit: Naked Energy

A New Solar Water Heating System Goes Online as Its Developer Enters the US Market

By Dan Gearino

Employees of Sontec GmbH assemble photovoltaic modules on the roof of a residential building in Germany.

This Number Helps Explain Why Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Attractive in Many States

By Dan Gearino

Employees of Sunrun, nation's largest rooftop solar installer, carry panels into position in North Las Vegas, Nevada.

Some Rare, Real Talk From a Utility About Competition With Rooftop Solar

By Dan Gearino

A worker walks past a solar facility in Hill County, Texas in March 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/ AFP/Getty Images

Flush With the Promise of Tax Credits, Clean Energy Projects Are Booming in Texas

By Keaton Peters

Jack Doherty, photovoltaic project manager for Revision Energy, carries a solar panel to the roof ridge of a home in OceanView at Falmouth. The company, which employs almost 200 people, has installed panels on about 50 roofs in the development. Credit: Ben McCanna/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

The Solar Industry Gained Jobs Last Year. But Are Those Good Jobs, and Could They Be Better?

By Dan Gearino

Lawrence Jackson of San Francisco is pictured with the rooftop solar system he had installed by GRID Alternatives.

New Research Rooted in Behavioral Science Shows How to Dramatically Increase Reach of Low-Income Solar Programs

By Dan Gearino

Heat radiates off of the panels of one of the solar farms in Desert Center, California, on Monday, May 8, 2023. Credit: Alex Gould

Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of solar panels installed on the roof of buildings at a machinery equipment manufacturing industrial park in Yongzhou, Hunan Province of China, on June 7, 2023. Credit: VCG via Getty Images

Inexpensive Solar Panels Are Essential for the Energy Transition. Here’s What’s Happening With Prices Right Now

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

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

By Dan Gearino

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

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