New York reaches 8 GW of distributed solar capacity + 29 more energy stories
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Jul 5, 2026 - Jul 12, 2026
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Tony Smith, chair of the Virginia Distributed Solar Alliance, told Utility Dive that other states can learn from New York's policies that "reduce soft costs, provide investment certainty, and remove u
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☀️ Solar
Canadian Solar has launched upgraded EP Cube Single-Phase 2.0 and Three-Phase Pro energy storage systems, combining hybrid inverters with modular LFP batteries for residential, C I, and scalable backu...
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The quite rural Porterville Unified School District (PUSD) in California, which sits between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or Los Angeles and Sacramento, has decided to go all-in on cleantech. It is ...
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U.S. solar module prices held steady at $0.30 per watt in the second quarter of 2026. The market saw a wave of corporate divestitures driven by federal trade rules. A new tariff petition against South...
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The financing will support the Government of India’s PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSMGBY) initiative.
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Renewables developer Elawan Energy has closed a €760 million financing on a 1.3GW solar PV, wind and battery energy storage system (BESS) portfolio in Spain.
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BYD Energy Storage has landed a contract to supply 11.275 GWh of battery storage for Masdar’s Round the Clock (RTC) project in Abu Dhabi — one of the single largest energy storage procurements ever si...
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I assume it's no coincidence the World Bank made announcements of new support for clean energy in both India and Pakistan on the same day. If you're going to support one, you better support the other!...
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A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
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💨 Wind
New Zealand has approved its first framework for offshore wind development in the country, but the country's national wind power association has flagged risks that the government is yet to address.
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⚛️ Nuclear
I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just because I love a poolside barbecue. This year the American holiday also marked a big symbolic deadline for US nuclear power. Last year the Trump ad...
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Up until recently, the U.S. was in a yearslong dry spell in the construction of new nuclear power plants. The hiatus finally ended in April , when two next-generation nuclear developers broke ground o...
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🔋 Electric Vehicles
The auto industry news of the week has to be Volkswagen's apparent crisis and plan to cut four factories, half of its models, and about 100,000 employees. So, when I saw other news coming out of Germa...
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Ford has yet to name its much-anticipated 100% electric mid-sized pickup truck for the US market, but the company's hybrid EV activity in Europe could provide a clue. The post Ford's New EV Needs A Na...
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📦 Storage
Yamaha has officially entered India’s increasingly competitive premium electric scooter market with the launch of the new Aerox-E, an electric version of its popular sporty maxi-scooter. Rather than c...
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⚡ Grid
The program will discharge power from small batteries during events like the early-July heatwave that pushed PJM Interconnection demand to near-record levels.
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Startup Peak Energy launched in 2023 with a promise to bring the up-and-coming sodium-ion battery chemistry to American shores. Now, it’s building a gigafactory in Sacramento, California, that will be...
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💧 Hydrogen
Volvo’s new FH Aero Electric is the kind of truck legacy manufacturers used to imply battery-electric trucking could not really become. It claims up to 700 kilometers of range, carries up to 725 kWh o...
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🌊 Hydropower
This story originally appeared in New York Focus , a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. When renewable energy credits hit the market as soon...
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🌎 Climate
Company drops net zero target that includes suppliers’ greenhouse gas emissions
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Bill Frist served as a senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. During his last four years, he was the Senate majority leader. He chose not to stand for re-election in 2006 because he pledged during ...
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Trump administration urged to relist a species in ‘very, very serious trouble’ under Endangered Species ActClimate change is driving a gray whale “catastrophic mortality event” in the Pacific Ocean as...
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Heatwaves have long been part of the Tour but temperatures now are pushing the riders to limit of human enduranceThe Tour de France and the heat of the midday sun are old bedfellows, going back long b...
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Microsoft, Amazon and Google say they still aim to achieve net zero output despite construction boomMicrosoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions have increased by nearly a fifth in the p...
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📋 Policy
The so-called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” Act (OBBBA) has cost the US US$68.2 billion in capital investments into clean energy projects, according to analysis from business advocacy group E2.
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🛢️ Oil & Gas
Oil prices are likely to remain volatile as long as the United States and Iran are unable to resolve the status of the Strait of Hormuz.
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🌋 Geothermal
Startup Quaise Energy has raised $134 million to advance its first superhot geothermal power plant in central Oregon. On Tuesday, the Houston-based company announced the first tranche of its Series B ...
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🏭 Carbon Capture
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📰 More
Global oil demand, disrupted by the Iran war, is poised to shrink in 2026, the first time that’s happened since the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Energy Agency said on Friday. What’s unclear is...
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New Jersey's governor signed bills that aim to cut transmission owners' return on equity, establish data center tariffs and require state approval for "supplementary" transmission projects.
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