US solar contracts jump 15% but Q1 installations fall 27% as cell manufacturing lags far behind modules
The United States added 7.8 gigawatts of new solar capacity in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing 6 million cumulative installations, yet…
Grids, renewables, and the policies and investments powering the energy transition.
The United States added 7.8 gigawatts of new solar capacity in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing 6 million cumulative installations, yet…
Somewhere on your neighbor's roof sits a solar panel built around a layer of silicon oxide just a few atoms thick. That…
The United States is on pace to close out 2026 with nearly 65 gigawatts of utility-scale battery storage connected to the grid,…
Miles of salt left behind by an ancient sea sit nearly a mile beneath the farmland of eastern China. For decades, brine…
Xcel Energy received approval from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday for a $157 million electricity rate increase that will raise…
Every month, a bill lands in roughly 130 million American households. Most people glance at the total, wince, and move on. Behind…
Utah FORGE has launched its most demanding field experiment to date. The federal geothermal research laboratory has begun an extended circulation test…
The rig shows up before dawn, a 20-foot steel mast bolted to a flatbed truck. It parks over a chalked circle in…
All six of the United States' regional grid operators reached a regulatory crossroads on August 17, when a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
Picture a long stretch of interstate in Wyoming, Kansas or Missouri with no charger in sight and no money spent. Congress allocated…
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 6, 2026, imposing a 15 percent ad valorem tariff on downstream polysilicon derivative products…
Chunks of polysilicon feedstock enter one end of an integrated campus in northwest Georgia. By the time the material leaves the other…