Renewable Energy
Vox’s news coverage and updates on the latest in renewables like solar power, wind energy, storage, and batteries.
The company realized its aim to make solar cheaper than coal wasn’t ambitious enough.
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.
Germany, which now gets 7% of its electricity from solar, will have to get creative to keep the lights on.
That and more in our daily news roundup.
In some places, renewables are getting competitive with new fossil-fuel plants.
But is that really a good thing?
Congress keeps erratically killing and then renewing a key tax credit for wind. They did it again in 2014.
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.