Renewable Energy
Vox’s news coverage and updates on the latest in renewables like solar power, wind energy, storage, and batteries.
Trump’s retaliation plan has a bit of a hitch.
The natural gas “bridge” to sustainability may be shorter than expected.
A researcher discusses the “duck curve” he helped discover.
This is the path to a cleaner, more reliable, more resilient energy grid.
How much energy we use, what kind, and how much is wasted.
Wind and solar are great, but other sectors require other solutions.
The omnibus spending bill contains funding increases for clean energy research.
A new survey of utility execs reveals rising bafflement at the country’s regulatory path forward.
Reasons for skepticism, reasons for optimism, and some tentative conclusions.
The 30 percent duty will undermine the business case for new solar power development in the United States.
Is it the right target? Is it even possible?
The administration’s National Security Strategy document omits climate risks.
Scott Pruitt’s initiative undoes a key framework for states to cut their emissions.
Shared solar is a way for non-rooftop folks to directly support clean energy, while also supporting local jobs and economic development.
The company uses as much electricity as San Francisco.
Also everyone hates coal.
How to address climate change, energy access, and air pollution, at once.
Energy expert Dan Kammen weighs in on recent controversies.
Further decarbonization means wrestling with transportation.
A new study shows they can help the grid without being degraded.
Batteries are going to make rooftop solar invulnerable.
A study quantifies the lifesaving benefits of aggressive solar growth.
10 pieces of evidence that Perry is doing exactly what Trump instructed.
Activist Debbie Dooley doesn’t think caring for the environment is anti-Republican.
Two bits of symbolism to illustrate Trump’s doomed battle to save coal.
With $200 billion in revenue, it’s sneaking up on consumer electronics.
GOP governors are becoming clean energy leaders.
It’s not “the cheapest electricity in the world,” but it’s getting really cheap.
Geothermal might not have the flashiness of solar or wind, but it’s the solid, steady workhorse of the renewable energy race.
Progress is never unstoppable.
He vetoed a bill that would have made them voluntary.
The unsung, unsexy state-level policies that are quietly saving billions of dollars.
They moved ahead last year.
The legislature wants to make them voluntary.
A chat with IEA executive director Fatih Birol.
A small source of optimism.
A few points of light in the darkness.
Turns out other companies make nifty products too.