Clean energy

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.

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.

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.

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.

Food and farms

Oil and gas giants are spending billions to develop RNG projects from trash, food and manure. But experts say there’s a limited future for the waste-derived fuel.

Transmission

The new wires will deliver cheap Canadian hydropower to a region still dependent on gas and oil.

Batteries

Home battery installs could double in California this year, now that the state has ditched net metering and overhauled incentives for rooftop solar owners.

Clean energy

But polling data shows a big partisan divide and age gap on the question of whether climate change is a serious problem.

Nuclear

The startup is spurning room-sized reactors in favor of a small, modular design. But it’s unclear when or if fusion technology — large or small — will pan out.