Renewable Energy
Vox’s news coverage and updates on the latest in renewables like solar power, wind energy, storage, and batteries.
The road ahead is long.
Geothermal is boring. The real fun starts when you can harness the power of magma.
In which I tell rich people how to spend their money.
Insanely detailed new study finds 30 percent renewables by 2026 is technically possible.
Solar continues its steady march down the cost curve, as growth accelerates.
Turbines are getting more powerful, costs are falling, and installations are surging. Happy times.
Solar is growing fast enough to absorb all the laid-off coal workers.
Unlike California, New York won’t sacrifice one zero-carbon energy source for another. It will use both.
The proposed deal would create “the world’s only vertically integrated energy company offering end-to-end clean energy products to our customers.”
It’s made of concrete!
One of the big reasons for solar’s spread: It’s viral.
Just requires a wholesale social and political revolution, NBD.
Billionaire Tom Steyer wants to register and mobilize the youngs in swing states.
Pro-innovation arguments, without the anti-environmentalist bile.
Two experts argue that we’re thinking about solar costs all wrong.
The state is about to hook up with a (dirtier) nearby grid, and it’s got legislators nervous.
The world installed more renewable capacity in 2015 than coal or gas — the first time that’s happened.
Pessimistic projections from the EIA and others are taken as predictions; they distort energy investment decisions.
Oregon decides: no more coal and twice the renewable energy.
Practical steps to accommodate more wind and solar — no tech breakthroughs required.
The rise of rooftop solar panels has the grid quacking. (Quacking! Get it?!)
Wind and solar are in for some boom years.
Under the arcane and boring shell, a gooey center of good news for clean energy advocates.
It’s a huge win for solar and wind power in the short run. The long-term is where things get tricky.
Taxpayers pay affluent people to buy efficient appliances. And maybe that’s okay.
Hint: People who have jobs hate losing them.
Everyone agrees IEA sucks at wind and solar, but no one can quite explain it.
As renewable energy ramps up, entrepreneurs work to bring its benefits to the 300 million citizens who lack electricity.
If Congress lets a key tax credit expire in 2017, solar’s record growth could slow drastically.
Big stuff going down in Cali this week.
It’s a political puzzle.
A closer look at her big new proposal to boost renewable power from 13% of electricity today to 33% by 2027.
Changing rules and markets is cheap compared with other clean grid solutions.
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.”
You can subscribe to the power generated by other solar projects through “community solar.”
They exist, but they can be pushed back.
Like trying to rebuild airplanes in flight.