Fossil fuels

Solar

GlassPoint is back from liquidation with big plans to decarbonize heavy industry using solar-powered steam — and funding from BlackRock to make it happen.

Carbon-free buildings

Vicinity Energy aims to convert Boston's steam network to run on clean electricity, showing how some cities can move toward climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings.

Utilities

Heat, drought and fires could push the grid to its limits this summer. The solution is a flexible system with a wide range of power sources, not reliance on big power plants, experts say.

Fossil fuels

Speeding up the switch to renewables will free consumers from the price volatility of dirty energy.

Podcast

How residential drilling sparked public health and environmental justice problems in California.

Policy & regulation

The Commerce Department’s consideration of new tariffs for Southeast Asian solar-panel makers is stalling solar projects — and undermining the clean energy transition.

Clean energy

Wind, solar, hydro and other renewables combined contributed more electricity to the U.S. grid last year than nuclear power — but the total was still just shy of coal.

Clean energy

Motivated to ditch Russian oil and gas, countries in Europe and beyond will find cheaper renewable energy solutions ready and waiting, says analyst Kingsmill Bond.

Clean energy

The market has spoken — and it says the energy transition is already well underway.

Podcast

Does the Russian war in Ukraine upend the idea that natural gas can be a bridge fuel?