Canary Media | Covering the clean energy transition

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Workforce diversity

Charging Up: Climatetech career moves at Stripe, Highland, AES, Array Technologies, RWE, Microsoft and more

Plus, a Q&A with Karen Miao, Senior Director of Renewable Structuring at JERA Americas.

By Eric Wesoff, Maria Virginia Olano . 17 May 2022
Workforce diversity

Inspired by a superhero, Shawn Jones became a climatetech engineer

Canary talks to BlueWave's head of storage development about big batteries, climate justice and bringing more people of color into clean energy.

By Maria Virginia Olano . 31 May 2022
Policy & regulation

Here are ways to connect clean energy projects to the grid more quickly

It won’t be easy to fix the massive pileup of energy projects that need to be connected to the transmission grid, but regulators and developers are ready to try.

By Jeff St. John . 31 May 2022
Podcast

Climatetech's surprising bottleneck: Land access

How geography, landscape and the rights to physical spaces could hinder key climate technologies.

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By Shayle Kann . 2 June 2022
Guides and how-tos

The power grid explained — plus demand response, virtual power plants and more

Canary Media defines the concepts that are key to a clean, distributed electricity system, from "behind the meter" to "balancing the grid."

By Alison F. Takemura . 2 June 2022
Food and farms

What's the most climate-friendly way to eat? It's tricky

Plus, why climate hawks should heed the Chick-Fil-A cows and eat more chicken.

By Michael Grunwald . 6 June 2022
Solar

Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom

Residents and shop owners are installing solar-plus-battery systems in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Will the government get on board?

By Maria Gallucci . 8 June 2022
Carbon-free buildings

How century-old 'district energy' networks can help decarbonize cities

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.

By Jeff St. John . 7 June 2022
Series

Recycling Renewables: A special series

As the world rolls out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, we’re cleaning up electricity — and generating a lot of equipment that will ultimately need to be recycled. The clean energy sector has drastically lower impacts on the environment than fossil fuels, but still needs to do its part to conserve resources and curb waste. In this week of special coverage, Canary Media reports on the technologies, policies and companies that can make clean energy even cleaner. We thank Solarcycle for its support of this series.
Clean energy

Why we need to recycle clean energy technologies — and how to do it

Millions of tons of spent solar panels, wind turbine blades and lithium-ion batteries could be wasted in landfills — or put back to use for the clean energy transition.

By Jeff St. John . 13 June 2022