Massachusetts startup floats a versatile new solar boat

The TruSolar20, all straight lines and right angles, was not the sleekest vessel on the Charles River when I visited at the end of August. Once I climbed aboard with inventor James Worden and we pulled away from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s sailing...

The challenges and opportunities of clean energy in rural America

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The U.S. energy transition runs through rural America: As of last year, 87% of U.S. clean energy generation happened in areas far outside the country’s urban...

How dirty is the power generated in your state?

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . Have you ever gazed up at power lines and wondered how clean the electrons passing along them are? The answer is very different depending on where you are. Just look at the spectrum of blues in the map above....

Advanced grid tech gets a $1.9B DOE boost

For years now, grid experts have been trying to get utilities to deploy advanced transmission technologies that can squeeze more capacity out of overstressed U.S. power grids. On Thursday, the Trump administration put a $1.9 billion down payment on 31 projects that...

Meet the solar industry’s new Republican evangelist

Tim Pawlenty was a two-term Republican governor of Minnesota and made a run in the 2012 presidential primary, which ultimately went to Mitt Romney. Now, Pawlenty has reemerged on the national political scene as the leading evangelist for solar energy, while the...

A recent legal victory could free $7B in frozen Solar for All funds

Denise Abdul-Rahman, founder and CEO of nonprofit Black Sun Light Sustainability, can list in detail the harms that the Trump administration’s shutdown of the $7 billion Solar for All program has caused the Indiana communities she serves. About 1,000 low-income...

Should we get excited about California’s latest virtual power plant?

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. Hi, everyone! Let’s pick up a theme from last week’s newsletter: how California has yet to take full advantage of...

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