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Clean energy in rural America gets another big boost of federal funding

The Biden administration announced $78 million — the latest from a $1 billion program — to install solar, batteries, and more in rural communities.

By Alison F. Takemura . 2 May 2024
Transmission

Why won’t PJM let batteries and clean power bolster a stressed-out grid?

The country’s biggest grid operator is preventing developers from adding batteries to existing projects that have extra grid space, in defiance of a federal mandate.

By Jeff St. John . 3 October 2024
Electric vehicles

The US electric vehicle industry faces a bumpy road ahead

Trump’s anti-EV agenda could spell trouble for the sector, but analysts expect growth to continue in 2025 despite headwinds.

By Tim Stevens . 28 January 2025
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Renewable energy standards: Seeing beyond percentages

Are Midwest states meeting their renewable energy mandates? The numbers don't always tell the whole story.
Photo by Josh Koonce via Creative Commons

By Ken Paulman . 8 March 2011
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Does God want fracking in Ohio?

Ohio Gov. John Kasich says the Lord may have put natural gas deposits in the ground to lift people out of poverty.

By Ken Paulman . 23 September 2011
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Mixed rate impact from MN renewable standard

A new law requires Minnesota utilities to report on how the state's renewable energy standard is impacting rates. We've just had a look at the first round of reports.

2 November 2011
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Universities become natural leaders in renewable energy

Colleges and universities in the Midwest and nationally are increasingly adopting onsite renewable and clean energy as a way to promote sustainability, reduce carbon footprints, dovetail with research programs, and ideally result in long-term cost savings.
Photo by CERTs via Creative Commons

By Kari Lydersen . 7 February 2012
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Smoothing out the bumps of compressed-air storage

The University of Minnesota has licensed a new technology that could be used to smooth out many of the peaks and valleys in wind and solar power generation.

18 April 2012
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How Chicago's municipal aggregation could be a boon for renewable energy

A community choice aggregation activist says Chicago can have its cake and eat it too – generating cost savings while sparking a boom of local and regional renewable energy construction; creating solar, co-generation, wind and other installations owned largely by the city and individual residents.

By Kari Lydersen . 15 November 2012
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Municipal aggregation: a new direction or the same old thing?

Ohio symbolizes the way aggregation can be a complicated mix of idealism and pragmatism, of making realistic deals in the present while hoping for more sweeping changes in the future.

By Kari Lydersen . 17 December 2012