EV charging

Can battery swapping for electric vehicles beat out real-time charging? This business concept has already led to one high-profile flop, but Ample is gearing up to make it work.

Fun stuff

Politics

The Midwestern state has passed a barrage of policies in recent days and months meant to cut carbon emissions from the state's buildings, cars and electricity system.

Utilities

The Inflation Reduction Act earmarked $10.7B to make rural energy cleaner and more affordable. Now we have the details on how exactly the program will work.

Solar

State regulators have denied several solar projects in recent months, prompting clean energy developers to plead for greater clarity.

Electrification

We dig into the nerdy nuts and bolts behind induction cooking and how exactly it creates a speedy, precise and fossil-free cooking experience.

Workforce diversity

Plus, climatetech career and board moves at Nextracker, Tesla, Arcadia, American Clean Power, The Engine, Kevala, The Guardian, sonnen and more.

Transmission

The state’s grid operator unanimously approved the plan — a crucial step in California’s bid to modernize a grid that lags behind its climate goals.

Carbon capture

But most new development is in the early stages, and only a fraction of projects are actually operational at this point.

Electric vehicles

Startup Kevala forecasts California will need $50 billion in grid upgrades to meet electric-vehicle goals — and it can tell utilities where to start investing.

Public transit

The project, located in Maryland's most populous county, will use a solar microgrid to produce enough "green" hydrogen for 13 new fuel-cell buses.

Clean industry

CarbonBuilt kicked off production with its novel tech, which it claims can reduce overall CO2 emissions from concrete-making by 70 to 100 percent.

Solar

A number of companies are now using automation and AI to expedite utility-scale solar installations, ease labor shortages and protect workers from unsafe conditions.

Transmission

The White House wants Congress to pass permitting reform. In case that doesn't work, it's tapping DOE's authority to make it easier to build transmission.

Clean energy manufacturing

A new study shows the potential for clean energy and hydrogen-based steel production to slash carbon emissions and put Americans to work.

Fossil fuels

The state legislature in Vermont overruled the governor’s veto to pass a law that will curb greenhouse gas emissions from heating homes and other buildings.

Fun stuff

Our next live event will be in Seattle at the KEXP Gathering Space on Wednesday, June 28.

Utilities

A bill expected to be signed by the Colorado governor will be the most sweeping yet to prevent ratepayers from having to fund utilities’ political activities.

Electric vehicles

EVs now make up about 1% of the nation's school bus fleet, but that figure is rising fast thanks in large part to $5 billion in federal funding.

Utilities

Utilities and fossil fuel companies have touted carbon capture for years, but now they're unhappy that the EPA is telling them it's viable and ready for use.

Wind

Surging commodity prices have reversed a trend of falling costs, but wind power remains one of the cheapest — and cleanest — forms of electricity generation around.

Carbon capture

Two Israeli companies are betting that by trapping biomass deep underwater, they can keep gigatons of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Utilities

The state has set ambitious climate targets. Now it can build the clean energy it needs to meet them.

Utilities

The clean-energy retailer is both serving and disrupting the utility sector — selling software, renewable power, smart home energy devices and more.

Climate crisis

Canary's culture correspondent has a whale of a time connecting with fellow climate-conscious citizens in his New England hamlet.

Climatetech finance

SVB — now under new ownership — announces a $200 million financing deal for Pivot Energy, a leading community-solar developer.

Energy equity

A state law calling for utility bills to be based on household income could drive adoption of EVs and heat pumps — or punish rooftop solar and efficiency.