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Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts to Help Make Sense of 2021, a Year Coal Was Up and Solar Was Way Up

Coal, wind and solar gained market share, while natural gas, hydropower and nuclear were down.

By Dan Gearino

Excavators and bulldozers stack thermal coal at Lianyungang Port on Nov. 17, 2021 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. Credit: Wang Chun/VCG via Getty Images
Wind turbines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Papalote, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

By Dan Gearino

A wind and solar farm on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 in Kern County, California. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Wind and Solar Costs Have Risen. How Long Should We Expect This Trend to Last?

By Dan Gearino

Offshore turbines are construction off Block Island, Rhode Island, on Aug. 11, 2016. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

As the Biden Administration Eyes Wind Leases Off California’s Coast, the Port of Humboldt Sees Opportunity

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

The Block Island wind farm, from Montauk Point, on Long Island, New York on April 16, 2021. Credit: Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: For Offshore Wind Energy, Bigger is Much Cheaper

By Dan Gearino

A solar park is being built in a former opencast gravel mine. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Three Charts that Show the Energy Transition in 50 States

By Dan Gearino

An employee with Ipsun Solar installs solar panels on the roof of the Peace Lutheran Church in Alexandria, Virginia on May 17, 2021. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

US Energy Transition Presents Organized Labor With New Opportunities, But Also Some Old Challenges

By Delger Erdenesanaa

A Just Transition? On Brooklyn’s Waterfront, Oil Companies and Community Activists Join Together to Create an Offshore Wind Project—and Jobs

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Blades from a wind turbine rotate in a field, April 16, 2021 near Eldorado, Texas. Credit: Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Some Straight Talk about Renewables and Reliability

By Dan Gearino

Texas Politicians Aim to Penalize Wind and Solar in Response to Outages. Are Renewables Now Strong Enough to Defend Themselves?

By Dan Gearino

Stalks of corn are seen near York, Nebraska. The state is steadily increasing its use of renewable energy, helped by strong winds. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: The Energy Transition Comes to Nebraska

By Dan Gearino

President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media while flanked by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, at the Queen Theater after receiving a briefing from the transition Covid-19 advisory board on Nov. 9, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Joe Raedle/Gett

Inside Clean Energy: Four Things Biden Can Do for Clean Energy Without Congress

By Dan Gearino

Joe Biden listens to a question from the media after delivering a speech at the William Hicks Anderson Community Center, on July 28, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Biden’s Climate Plan Shows Net Zero is Now Mainstream

By Dan Gearino

Trainees check the connections a row of power storage units in a commercial battery facility in Schwerin, Germany. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: A California Utility Announces 770 Megawatts of Battery Storage. That’s a Lot.

By Dan Gearino

Participants in the Fridays For Future movement protest during a nationwide climate change action day in front of the Brandenburg Gate on September 20, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

How Dying Forests and a Swedish Teenager Helped Revive Germany's Clean Energy Revolution

By Dan Gearino

Xcel Energy's Rush Creek Wind Farm mixes renewable energy and agriculture. Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty

Inside Clean Energy: Here Is How Covid Is Affecting Some of the Largest Clean Energy Projects

By Dan Gearino

U.S. Geothermal Industry Heats Up as It Sees Most Gov't Support in 25 Years

By Amy Westervelt

Colorado Shoots for 30% Renewable Energy by 2020, a Stark Contrast to Its Neighbors

By Dave Levitan

Australia Group Rolls Out Plan for 100% Renewable Energy by 2020

By Stacy Feldman

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