Solar energy
From tax breaks to solar panels, Vox explores the latest news on solar energy.
Batteries that could help drive the switch to renewable energy are already, well, driving.
Around the world, energy is becoming abundant — there’s just one problem.
2025 has felt brutal for climate policy in the US — but the bigger picture is surprisingly promising.
Imagine we had cheap and abundant energy. Some radical ideas are actually within our reach.
Rising power bills quietly shaped this year’s races — and gave Democrats a new attack line on climate.
Here’s why you shouldn’t panic. Yet.
Environmental activist and writer Bill McKibben on why “you can’t stop the sun.”
Trump’s EPA wants to claw back grants for a solar panel program.
Their messy split highlights some real fault lines in clean energy politics.
The good news about global warming.
Innovation is a resource we can mine.
Where current policies and trends could do real damage to climate progress.
The world is steadily moving away from fossil fuels.
Even the most determined opposition can’t stop the clean energy revolution.
Trump wants to reverse years of climate progress. It won’t be easy.
Climate progress is actually good business.
The future for our planet looks bleak. Here’s why it’s not.
The bipartisan case for abundance, briefly explained.
Turns out, it’s surprisingly hard to spend government cash.
The Taiwan invasion everyone fears might never happen. Here’s what could take place instead.
Claudia Sheinbaum, la nueva presidenta, ya está remodelando su industria energética.
The strategy comes at a cost for the planet.
Solar’s extraordinary forecast-defying growth, explained.
Arcane permitting rules are holding back clean energy. Speeding it up could have some big drawbacks.
And a few things you can do about it.
US solar power has more than doubled since the last eclipse. What will happen during this one?
Despite record power demand, the grid largely avoided blackouts. Don’t take this for granted.
We can’t truly switch to renewable energy without a breakthrough.
One man, some very old solar panels, and a law that looks a lot like part of the proposed US Green New Deal helped transform the way Germany gets its power.
The rise in renewable energy will scramble the decision making of grid managers.
Renewables require a change in the how we supply electricity.
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.
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?!)