Utilities
Charts: Utilities sticking with fossil fuels despite climate pledges
A new Sierra Club report highlights the major U.S. utilities that plan to burn coal and build new fossil-gas infrastructure through at least 2030.
Maria Virginia Olano is editorial and research associate at Canary Media and producer of the Political Climate podcast. Before joining the Canary team, she worked on state-level climate policy advocacy, specifically focusing on communications strategies. She also hosted and produced the podcast Cooler Earth.
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Clean energy
How does your state rank on fostering community-led clean energy?
Policies can help or hinder communities that want to take charge of their own energy future. Canary's chart of the week shows how U.S. states stack up.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Kavita Patel, principal at MUUS Climate Partners
Plus, climatetech career moves at Citi, TD Securities, Plus Power, Ørsted, Oracle, Energize Ventures, Origis Services, U.S. DOT and National Grid.
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Wind
Oil, gas or wind: What produces more energy per offshore acre?
Canary's chart of the week highlights some drastic differences in the amount of energy produced from a single leased offshore acre.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Sandra Henry, president of nonprofit Slipstream
Plus, climatetech career moves at Hannon Armstrong, Generac, PosiGen, Arcadia, AES, GreenBiz, FlexGen and more.
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Emissions reduction
Chart: Net-zero targets have gone global — but how meaningful are they?
National pledges to cut emissions to zero now cover 91% of the global economy, but many of them are too vague and reliant on offsets and carbon removal.
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Wind
Chart: California's big bet on offshore wind
The state has a goal to build 25 GW of offshore wind by 2045, most of it floating turbines — enough to provide 25% of its electricity.
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Workforce diversity
Charging Up: A chat with Susan Nickey, EVP and chief client officer at Hannon Armstrong
Plus, climatetech career moves at Apple, L'Oréal, Solar Sister, Arcadia, Earthrise Energy, Aurora Solar and more.
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Workforce diversity
Chart: Women hold less than a third of jobs in wind and solar power
A staggering 70% of the U.S. workforce for wind and solar electricity generation is male — even worse than the gender gap in coal and gas power generation.
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Electric vehicles
Chart: Which countries buy the most EVs?
The top spots are dominated by Nordic nations — while the U.S. barely makes the top 20.
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