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This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The U.S. depends on hydroelectric power — and ever-worsening drought is threatening its supply. The western half of the country has faced a water crisis for years, and things have only gotten more dire in…
See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the Week” column . It’s a tough time to build renewable energy in the U.S. In 2026 alone, the Trump administration has phased out tax credits , frozen clean-energy permitting , and issued tariffs certain to raise the cost of solar — while continuing to take lazy and…
Last month, grid operator PJM Interconnection unveiled a long-awaited proposal to prevent data centers from spiking power prices — but the plan largely relies on states to give it teeth . Pennsylvania, one of the biggest states in PJM’s 13-state territory, is taking up that challenge. This week, Pennsylvania Gov.…
For the better part of the year, Duke Energy’s bid to jack up electric rates in North Carolina has been hotly contested by politicians, consumer advocates, and the public at large. Under the utility’s latest proposal before state regulators, the average Duke residential customer could pay about $10 more on their…
Heat pumps are a key way to get fossil fuels out of buildings — and the tech recently notched a win in the U.S. housing market. 2025 marked the first year that over half the apartment buildings constructed nationwide came equipped with the überefficient electric appliances , according to U.S. Census Bureau data .…
LANSING, Mich. — The Trump administration has made clear its disdain for electric vehicles and clean energy. Yet at the grand opening of South Korea–based LG Energy Solution’s latest battery manufacturing facility, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum cheered the factory as a fulfillment of the president’s agenda. “That’s…
Sage Geosystems has hit a big milestone out on a rugged tract near San Antonio: The startup is producing power from its first next-generation geothermal plant. The system is just the third of its kind to come online in the U.S. as the sector races to commercialize the source of on-demand clean electricity. The novel…
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. Inside the vast Qcells factory in Cartersville, Georgia, workers — and a bevy of robots — move ultrathin slices of polysilicon through a lengthy series of machines and chemical baths to get what are known as cells. “The…
Next-generation geothermal energy has massive potential in the western United States, but it won’t be realized unless developers can overcome the big economic barriers these novel systems face. Unlike traditional geothermal plants, next-gen projects use innovative underground techniques to produce power wherever…
California’s Democratic candidate for governor, Xavier Becerra, is borrowing a page from Australia with a new plan to give state residents free electricity during certain parts of the day. Last week, Becerra unveiled a proposal to offer up to two free hours of electricity per day, starting with low-income families.…
California, with its sky-high electricity prices, isn’t facing the same influx of data centers that many other states are. But the massive facilities are still being built and proposed in California — and legislators are racing to stop them from pushing up utility rates and pollution. Two major data center bills…
Following a key legal deadline last Friday, the stage is now set for the Ohio Power Siting Board to make a final decision about whether the state’s largest solar and energy storage project to date can move ahead. The OPSB initially approved the Oak Run Solar Project in March 2024, but the case has since been bogged…