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Wind Energy

Inside Clean Energy: A Dirty Scandal for a Clean Energy Leader

A wave of revelations about Florida Power & Light begs a question of parent company NextEra Energy: Will a sullied reputation seep into its clean-energy efforts?

By Dan Gearino

Power lines strung through the Florida Everglades. Credit: Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Explaining the Record-Breaking Offshore Wind Sale

By Dan Gearino

A Dominion Energy rendering shows a wind turbine installation vessel. Credit: Dominion Energy

Inside Clean Energy: Who’s Ahead in the Race for Offshore Wind Jobs in the US?

By Dan Gearino

The Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, is pictured on June 13, 2017. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Offshore Wind Takes a Big Step Forward, but Remains Short of the Long-Awaited Boom

By Dan Gearino

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Wednesday, Sept, 14, 2016. Credit: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Can Biden’s Plan to Boost Offshore Wind Spread West?

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

A farmer feeds cows in front of wind turbines that stand at the Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge in Fowler, Indiana on Aug. 3, 2016. Credit: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Wind Energy Is a Big Business in Indiana, Leading to Awkward Alliances

By Dan Gearino

Wind turbines generate electricity at the San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm near Palm Springs, California. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Where Can We Put All Those Wind Turbines?

By Dan Gearino

A coastal view of Tilos island, Greece. Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images

The Greek Island Where Renewable Energy and Hybrid Cars Rule

By Kerin Hope

A boat passes one of the wind turbines of the Block Island Wind Farm on Oct. 14, 2016 off the shore of Rhode Island. Credit: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

An Offshore Wind Farm on Lake Erie Moves Closer to Reality, but Will It Ever Be Built?

By Nicole Pollack

Block Island Wind Farm, located off the shore of Rhode Island. Credit: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: At a Critical Moment, the Coronavirus Threatens to Bring Offshore Wind to a Halt

By Dan Gearino

Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images)

Inside Clean Energy: An Energy Snapshot in 5 Charts

By Dan Gearino

Xcel's Comanche Generating Station, the largest power plant in Colorado, runs on coal. Credit: Andy Cross/Denver Post via Getty Images

Utilities Have Big Plans to Cut Emissions, But They’re Struggling to Shed Fossil Fuels

By Dan Gearino

Hywind, the world's first commercial-scale floating deep-water wind turbine, launched in Europe in 2009. The University of Maine is designing the first full-scale floating turbine in the United States. Credit: Lars Christopher/CC-BY-SA-2.0

Can America’s First Floating Wind Power Project Help Open Deeper Waters to Clean Energy?

By Kristoffer Tigue

Wind turbine construction. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Trade War Fears Ripple Through Wind Energy Supply Chain

By LESLIE HOOK, FINANCIAL TIMES

A maintenance boat works next to the turbines in an offshore wind farm near Liverpool, UK. Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?

By Dan Gearino, Phil McKenna

Memphis at dusk, with a banner celebrating an anniversary of Memphis Light, Gas and Water, the municipal utility. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images

Cities Pressure TVA to Boost Renewable Energy & One Considers Breaking Away

By James Bruggers

National Renewable Energy Lab researcher David Moore holds a perovskite ink painted solar cell. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

Trump's Budget Cuts Could Have a Chilling Effect on U.S. Clean Energy Leadership

By Dan Gearino

Remote regions of Puerto Rico have been using solar power for years. Now the U.S. territory’s legislature has approved a rapid, territory-wide scale-up to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Passes 100% Clean Energy Bill. Will Natural Gas Imports Get in the Way?

By Phil McKenna

Maintenance workers on a solar farm. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Wind & Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Existing Coal in Much of the U.S., New Analysis Finds

By Dan Gearino

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