Renewable Energy
The technology powering a lower-carbon, renewable electricity grid.
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Illinois’ Battery Storage Deal Could Save Homes $2,800
What would an extra $2,800 be worth to your household over the next twenty years? Illinois just placed a big bet on batteries to find out.
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How Three New Solar Plants Are Ending Blackouts for 17,500 Comoros Households
A UAE-financed solar and battery upgrade is cutting the Comoros islands’ reliance on imported diesel, bringing cleaner, steadier power to 17,500 households.
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This Texas Plant Recycles a Solar Panel Every Minute, and Everyone Wins
One solar panel, gone every sixty seconds. That is the pace a new solar panel recycling plant outside Dallas plans to hit once it opens, turning a growing pile of retired rooftop and utility panels into raw materials the country badly needs. For the millions of American homeowners who went solar over the past fifteen…
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A Virginia Solar Deal Cuts Power Bills and Saves a 150-Year-Old Family Farm
For more than 150 years, the Harris family has worked the same acreage in Hanover County, Virginia, growing hay, grazing cattle, and passing Cross Creek Farm down through generations. Land taxes climbed. Equipment costs kept rising. Families in their position often sell out to developers who pave the fields over for good, but the Harrises…
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A Geothermal Drilling Breakthrough Could Make Clean Heat Affordable for Everyone
Just one percent of buildings in the United States pull their heat from the ground beneath them. A geothermal drilling breakthrough out of Boston might be about to change that math, and fast. Geothermal heat pumps are about as close to a free lunch as home heating gets. They use the earth’s steady underground temperature…
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Delaware’s Community Solar Push Slashes Power Bills for 16,000 Households
Sixteen thousand Delaware households are about to see a smaller number at the bottom of their electric bill, and not one of them had to put a panel on their roof. Governor Matt Meyer’s administration cleared the way for four new community solar projects across Sussex and New Castle counties this month, and together they…
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Albuquerque’s New Solar Factory Means 300 Jobs and Cheaper Panels
This week, workers in Albuquerque cut the ribbon on a factory floor the size of four football fields. Inside it, machines will soon stamp out steel trackers, the motorized frames that tilt solar panels to follow the sun across the sky. ARRAY Technologies opened the plant on September 9, and the timing matters: the 300…
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US Solar Power Hits a Milestone: Enough to Run 50 Million Homes
One in three American homes could now run on solar power alone, and the industry got there faster than almost anyone predicted a year ago. A new market report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie found that U.S. solar capacity crossed a striking threshold in the second quarter of 2026: installed solar…
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Solar Battery Microgrids Will Save Roanoke Schools $22 Million
Picture a summer storm rolling through the Blue Ridge Mountains and knocking out power across Roanoke, Virginia. Streetlights go dark block by block. But at two of the city’s high schools, the lights stay on, the water keeps running, and families arriving for shelter don’t have to worry about a generator running out of fuel…
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How Derry, NH Turned a Landfill Into $4 Million in Solar Savings
Derry, New Hampshire’s fourth-largest town just found $4 million hiding under an old landfill. For six years, an all-volunteer committee called the Derry NetZero Task Force pushed for a plan that finally switched on this month. The idea was simple: cover ten acres of capped, unusable landfill with solar panels and let the sun quietly…