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While the country is distracted by infection rates, deaths and protests, what else have we been missing? This week on The Energy Gang, we peek out from behind the quarantine curtain to see what the Trump administration has been up to on the energy front. …

Heading into summer 2020, looming uncertainty about electricity demand makes flexibility more vital than ever in the United States. In particular, residential demand response faces more pressure than usual, as many people continue to work from home over the…

A concise three-sentence letter sent by the U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday suggests relief is on the way for a renewables industry concerned about meeting quickly approaching tax credit deadlines. The letter came in response to a late April appeal from a…

Distributed solar and storage company SunPower ended the first coronavirus-influenced quarter with a loss, but some optimism for a rebound as it reported Q1 earnings on Thursday. After a rough April, SunPower said demand appears to be slowly growing back to…

First Solar withdrew most of its 2020 guidance on Thursday despite saying it has not yet felt any major business impact from the global coronavirus pandemic, highlighting the uncertainty facing the global solar market. First Solar executives said that plans to…

Are progressive ideas on how to tackle climate change the political poison pill they're often thought to be? New opinion polling challenges this assumption. On this week's episode of Political Climate, we discuss how data is helping decode where the American…

Form Energy, the stealthy, Bill Gates-backed startup, has secured its first utility deal for a novel super-long duration energy storage technology. And its stated capability blows away anything else on the market. A cadre of storage industry veterans and MIT…

Destruction. Dislocation. Collapse. A permanent reset. Read any news about oil markets, and these are the vivid descriptions you’ll encounter. We are now deep into an historic pause for oil demand across the globe — shutting down oil fields, causing…

Solar Edge and Enphase, which together dominate the U.S. market for residential solar inverters, managed to achieve major growth in the first quarter of 2020, but warned of reduced demand in the months ahead due to the global pandemic. Enphase delayed the…

Shell Nederland and Dutch energy company Eneco have confirmed they entered last week’s Dutch offshore wind tender as part of a joint effort to create a record-breaking hydrogen cluster in the Netherlands. The tender closed last week with Ørsted confirming…

U.S. residential solar bellwether Sunrun reported solid business in the quarter that ended with the arrival of shelter-in-place orders.  First quarter installations grew 13 percent year-over-year, to 97 megawatts. That performance handily beat rival installer…

For decades, the massive coal-fired Navajo Generating Station powered the great cities of the desert southwest: Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas. Yet the Navajo Nation that hosted it contains 75 percent of all the households in the U.S. that lack electricity,…

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric may need to rely even more heavily on forced blackouts this year, to prevent its grid from starting more deadly wildfires like the ones that drove it into bankruptcy.  PG&E’s wildfire mitigation work is well…

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the world's second largest wind turbine manufacturer, posted a €165 million ($178 million) net loss for the January to March quarter, with coronavirus weighing on its results. The loss compared to a €49 million profit in…

Supportive policy in China, North America and Europe has led to rapid development of public and residential electric vehicle charging markets. As electric vehicles climb to 13.8 percent of new vehicle sales globally by 2030, these regions will see their EV…

The head of Softbank’s renewable energy subsidiary, SB Energy Global, says his firm is committed to growing its presence in international clean energy markets despite ongoing financial struggles at the parent company — and new ones stemming from the…

The Department of Commerce will investigate potential tariffs on steel components used in electrical transformers, equipment used in the transport of all types of electric generation. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Monday that the department aims to…

Vestas, the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines, posted an operating loss for its first quarter of 2020 on Tuesday — but that doesn't tell the full story, with nearly every other metric looking positive. Costs, largely attributable to the…

Over the past few weeks the U.S. residential solar industry has seen layoffs, warnings of falling demand and a scramble to shift as much work as possible online. So far, many of the reports of pain have been anecdotal. But soon the industry’s public…

In the midst of a global pandemic, Siemens is pressing ahead with plans to spin off its energy units, including its majority stake in wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, into a new business. If the goal is maximize the proceeds, the timing…