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Station A, a spinout of NRG Energy, has built a business collecting massive amounts of data on about 10 million commercial and industrial buildings across the U.S., and using it to assess their viability for solar PV, batteries and other distributed energy…

U.K. smart storage startup Moixa has raised £4.6 million ($5.8 million) of funding, and aims to raise another £10 million by the end of the year, as it prepares to expand its energy storage management platform across the U.S. and Europe. Japanese…

New York on Tuesday issued its much-anticipated request for proposals (RFP) for up to 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, setting up the U.S. market to have at least one more big project — and perhaps several — in its pipeline by the end of the…

Sol Systems and Microsoft announced Tuesday they will work together on a portfolio of 500 megawatts of U.S. solar projects as well as investments in communities on the frontlines of climate change. Washington, D.C.-based Sol Systems will finance, develop and…

Federal agents have arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder on charges of organizing a years-long criminal conspiracy to pass a controversial law that offered billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to keep bankrupt utility FirstEnergy Solutions from…

Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. If it succeeds,…

Magnus Hall, chief executive of Swedish utility and renewables giant Vattenfall, has resigned after six years at the helm. Hall will leave before the end of January 2021, making him at least the third high-profile CEO to resign in a month within Europe's clean…

Over the past decade, London-based Kiwi Power has harnessed a gigawatt of flexible commercial and industrial loads in 10 European countries into behind-the-meter networks of energy flexibility, capable of serving wholesale capacity markets, reducing strain…

Enel announced a dramatic upscaling of its U.S. energy storage ambitions on Tuesday, saying it will add 1 gigawatts of storage capacity to its renewables fleet by 2022. That's a huge jump from late 2019, when the Italian utilities group and renewables…

A group of House lawmakers recently released a 547-page report on climate change. Reporters at E&E News called it “arguably the most comprehensive climate policy plan in American politics.” The report spells out in great detail how to use Congressional…

The grid is heading in the direction of more renewables, with or without overarching policies to guide it. There’s general agreement that the ability to store electricity will become more valuable as this happens, but the exact value of energy storage in a…

Illinois utility Commonwealth Edison has agreed to pay a $200 million fine in relation to a federal investigation over bribery charges that have cast a shadow over its policy efforts in the state capital.  Friday’s deferred prosecution agreement filed in…

Less than two weeks after emerging from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its multi-billion dollar wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric faces yet another lawsuit for a 2019 fire that California investigators say was caused by its power lines.  On…

Earlier this month, Sunrun, the largest residential solar company in the U.S., declared its intent to acquire Vivint Solar, the second largest installer. It’s an all-stock transaction that would value the combined entity at over $9 billion. It's a big deal…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has changed the rules for a federal law that allows independent energy projects to secure utility contracts for their power. Utility groups say the changes will reduce costs for customers, but clean energy groups and…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday unanimously rejected a plea to declare all state solar net-metering policies illegal, a victory for solar industry groups and state policymakers.  All four FERC commissioners voted to dismiss the…

Justin Guay is director for global climate strategy at the Sunrise Project. *** For just 5 percent of what the U.S. has spent on its COVID-19 recovery package, it could have bought out and retired every coal plant in the world. Instead, the U.S. coal industry…

Shares of Bloom Energy surged nearly 40 percent on Wednesday, lifting the fuel cell maker above its initial public offering price for the first time since 2018, after the California-based company announced it would enter the commercial hydrogen market.…

Joe Biden has just released the details of his $2 trillion plan to combat climate change, firming up a key pillar of his platform heading into the 2020 election. The proposal is being pitched as a way to boost the American economy, create millions of jobs and…

Numbers draw a devastating portrait of California’s increasingly destructive wildfires. Last year nearly 8,000 wildfires burned over 250,000 acres of the state, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Though the state’s 2019…