Clean-energy super PAC names its target list for general elections

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Midterm elections are less than a month away. For the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition, it’s the perfect time to double down on fighting clean energy opponents in...

Heat pumps have so far withstood the death of federal tax credits

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . America’s demand for heat pumps isn’t going away just because federal incentives did. Shipments of heat pumps stayed strong in the first half of 2026, and the tech is on track to match or exceed its best year,...

A new group to help US small towns lead the clean energy transition

As the mayor of tiny Enfield, North Carolina, Mondale Robinson has huge clean energy ambitions . Among them: building a solar farm to power the entire town of about 2,000, replacing the town’s decrepit substation to distribute those renewable electrons, and building a...

How a reluctant Iowa farming county undid a ban on battery storage

The soil in northwest Iowa is so fertile it’s referred to as “black gold.” “It’s incredibly rich, wonderful topsoil from thousands of years of silty deposits from the Missouri River,” said Luke Seaberg, a researcher at Iowa State University’s extension program. So...

California amps up pressure on grid buildouts that take too long

This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! This week, I want to dive into a topic that’s both timely and timeless:...

Connecticut’s solar ambitions hit skepticism from a major utility

Connecticut is trying to clean up its grid with more solar energy. But a major utility’s reluctance to commit to buying power from some projects is raising questions about the prospects for success. Connecticut last month announced plans to secure 63.4 megawatts of...

Tesla is now making more EVs that can double as a home battery

Households and the power grid run on alternating current. Batteries — including those in electric vehicles — run on direct current. That AC-DC divide has complicated the prospect of EVs as home backup batteries. Today, almost every commercially available...

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