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Electrification

Rebates for home energy upgrades are coming soon. Here’s how to plan

A home-energy expert offers 5 to-dos for households eager to ditch their fossil-fuel appliances with help from the High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Act.

By Maria Gallucci . 7 February 2023
Podcast

The journey to monetizing distributed energy resources

Customers are adopting DERs, but cumbersome rules are hampering more widespread deployment.

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By Shayle Kann . 47 min . 26 January 2023
Long-duration energy storage

Xcel to install Form’s long-duration batteries at retiring coal plants

The utility is testing Form’s 100-hour storage tech to achieve its lofty carbon-reduction goals — and at a scale bigger than nearly any battery plant on earth.

By Julian Spector . 27 January 2023
Liquefied natural gas

Inside the high-dollar race to sell natural gas as low-carbon

Special report: Rival U.S. firms lob differing, and debatable, climate claims as they market “green” liquefied natural gas, or LNG, to a warming world.

By Jeffrey Ball . 30 January 2023
Liquefied natural gas

Can an economic giant clean up natural gas — and then swap in hydrogen?

Special report: South Korea, a top importer of U.S. natural gas, wants to curb its carbon emissions and ultimately shift to cleaner energy. Will its bid work?

By Jeffrey Ball . 31 January 2023
Hydrogen

This utility is blending hydrogen into fossil gas. Can it scale?

Some households in Minnesota have been using a gas blend with 5% hydrogen to cook and heat their homes. Results have been positive so far.

By Frank Jossi . 31 January 2023
Fossil fuels

Clean energy is cheaper than coal across the whole US, study finds

Almost every coal-fired power plant in the country could be cost-effectively replaced by local solar or wind and batteries, according to a groundbreaking new analysis.

By Jeff St. John . 31 January 2023
Workforce diversity

Charging Up: A chat with Tasha McCarter, VP of solar engineering at RWE

Plus, climatetech career moves at Reactivate, Energy Innovation, Arcadia, Greentown Labs, Energy Vault and more.

By Maria Virginia Olano, Eric Wesoff . 2 February 2023
Heat pumps

10 questions to ask if you want to get a heat pump

Will you need to overhaul your electrical panel? What if you live in a cold climate? Will a heat pump save you money? We walk you through the basics.

By Julian Spector . 7 February 2023
Electrification

Home of the future: Climate-friendly, electrified and closer than ever

The technology and policies are falling into place. But we’ll need a revolution in U.S. home retrofit business models and financing to scale up enough to meet the climate challenge.

By Jeff St. John . 6 February 2023