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Two more utilities in Arizona and Colorado are moving to accelerate closure of coal plants and replace them with renewable energy backed by batteries, joining a broader push in both states to shift to more cost-effective clean energy options even in the…

Dominion Energy and its partner Ørsted have completed installation of the second offshore wind facility ever built in U.S. waters, the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind pilot located 30 miles off Virginia Beach. Dominion, a large utility group based in Virginia,…

Big solar plants are getting cheaper to run and expectations for their useful operational lives keep getting longer, according to a new survey of U.S. solar industry professionals. By the end of 2019, a cumulative total of 76 gigawatts of solar had been…

Companies and industry groups often gang together to promote their products. Far more unusual was the step taken last month by 10 major European energy companies and two of the continent's top renewable industry bodies, which joined up to launch a campaign…

Home battery storage has grown precipitously in recent years, but it still doesn’t match the scale and accessibility of a home appliance. Orison has been trying to change that since 2013. Now, the Wyoming-based startup is preparing to ship sleek, plug-in…

Pacific Gas & Electric has become the first combined natural gas and electric utility in California to express support for an emerging plan to require "efficient, all-electric new construction" in the state, telling regulators that it wants to “avoid…

Calls have been growing for governments to launch a “moonshot” or “Manhattan Project” scale mobilization to fight climate change. Such focused industrial policy is responsible for many of the 20th century’s most important advances, with governments…

A rivalry is emerging between two companies trying to clean up the trucking industry: Nikola Motor versus Tesla Motors. Tesla thinks battery-electric semi models are superior. Nikola thinks hydrogen is the best choice. Neither company actually has a semi model…

A handful of companies have experimented with labeling the carbon content of their products, but it's never caught on. That might be changing. Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell recently called carbon “the new calorie" after the electronics maker implemented a…

Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives this week introduced several pieces of legislation that could buoy renewables as part of a larger infrastructure package. The Moving Forward Act, the text of which was released Monday, includes…

This week the agency in Puerto Rico that manages public-private partnerships announced newly-formed Luma Energy will take over management of the island’s grid from its publicly owned utility, after an 18-month selection process. Luma, a joint venture…

The United States offshore wind industry is set to ramp up from near-zero today to as much as 25 gigawatts in 2029, according to new Wood Mackenzie research. That means offshore wind will capture almost half of the US market for new wind power installations by…

The U.K government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the…

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet.  Sunrun, the country’s…

There aren’t many sporting events taking place amid the pandemic, but athletes and the brands that support them aren’t sitting idle.  Protect Our Winters, a non-profit representing the outdoor sports community on climate issues, recently spent a week…

Distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them, and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their…

A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The mobile giant and the energy blockchain leader last month announced a partnership to use…

Environment America, a U.S. environmental advocacy group, today unveiled an effort to get home solar mandates — similar to the requirement that went into effect this year in California — installed in 10 states across the country. The environmental group,…

The U.S. market for distributed energy resources (DERs) will look very different in five years than it does today.  Fossil-fueled combined heat and power systems will continue to take a back seat to distributed solar and energy storage for behind-the-meter…

British wind farms are now solving the same problems they create for the grid operator, and lowering consumer bills in the process. With fewer and fewer fossil generators left in the U.K. generation mix, and more and more renewables, the network is under…