Interviews with solar installers show how inconsistent and resource-intensive local government permitting processes make it harder for Minnesotans to go solar.
SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative’s model allows anyone in the state to invest in local solar projects.
When Jimmy Carter was president in 1979, one of the two nuclear reactors at the Three Mile Island nuclear complex near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania partially melted...
More than 7.5 gigawatts of new power generation capacity went online in the third quarter of 2024 and most of it was renewable: 4 gigawatts...
Over 10 gigawatts of new power generation capacity went online in the second quarter of 2024 and most of it was renewable: 5.9 gigawatts of...
Jani Hale and Liz Veazy from Solar United Neighbors explain how the Solar Help Desk aids consumers and how the group organizes people to fight...
Tim Hade and Leah Stokes discuss how, through the coordination of a virtual power plant, distributed energy generation and storage will provide resilient and affordable...
Jeremy Kalin discusses the evolution of federal tax incentives for renewable energy and how the direct pay provision of the Inflation Reduction Act will deliver...
Over eight gigawatts of new power generation capacity went online in the first quarter of 2024 and nearly all of it was renewable: 5.5 gigawatts...
Energy democracy implies an energy system that is democratic, where decisions are made by the users of energy.
How much of the U.S. solar fleet is made up of smaller, distributed sources that help communities build local wealth? This 2023 update examines the...
Dorrie Bruggemann and Bill Powers discuss how a publicly-owned San Diego electric utility would be more supportive of distributed solar, offer lower rates thanks to...
4 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the fourth quarter of 2023. Over eight gigawatts of this fourth quarter surge was large-scale...
Charlie Fisher discusses the upcoming Salt River Project election and how clean energy advocates could flip the public utility's board and reverse anti-solar and anti-democratic...
7.2 gigawatts of new power generation capacity came online in the third quarter of 2023. Half of that capacity (3.6 gigawatts) was large-scale solar alone,...