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The race is on to build batteries big enough for planes to fly on clean electricity.
Energy storage is considered a green technology. But it actually increases carbon emissions.
Costa Rica is moving toward carbon neutrality faster than any other country in the world.
A new paper makes the case for supply-side climate policy.
Renewables require a change in the how we supply electricity.
We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
With 40 days to spare.
Solar producers in California and North Carolina will be hardest hit by the eclipse.
Not getting sick and dying from pollution is worth quite a bit, it turns out.
It’s the first of many planned panda power plants meant to get kids interested in green energy.
The appointments, the policies, the rhetoric — it is not subtle.
If we mean what we say, no more new fossil fuels, anywhere.
It would be cool, but there are challenges.
Solar continues its steady march down the cost curve, as growth accelerates.
A year after it was announced, Aquila finally took its inaugural flight.
One of the big reasons for solar’s spread: It’s viral.
Two experts argue that we’re thinking about solar costs all wrong.
The rise of rooftop solar panels has the grid quacking. (Quacking! Get it?!)
Defending supply restrictions against the disdain of climate wonks.
As renewable energy ramps up, entrepreneurs work to bring its benefits to the 300 million citizens who lack electricity.
Volta was behind batteries and a pretty amazing methane gun. Learn how he did it.
All those rooftop solar panels are basically invisible in official energy statistics.
“Many of us believe this is the field’s biggest breakthrough since the invention of the solar cell sixty years ago.”
There’s reason to be optimistic about wind and solar, but don’t go overboard.
The pattern becomes obvious in looking at the growth of solar in Connecticut.
It’s neat, but this is a really inefficient way to generate solar power.
It may require phasing out fossil-fuel emissions entirely this century, a new UN climate report warns.
It’s not the drop in panel prices. It’s small innovations in innovation, financing, and so forth.
Case in point: The biggest solar installer in America is now offering loans to make it cheaper to buy rooftop panels.
The battle over solar power in the US, explained.
The company is planning to build one of the world’s biggest solar-panel factories in upstate New York.