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• CCanary Media2026-10-15✓ Read

  What’s up with Pennsylvania’s hydrogen hubs?

  This article was originally published by Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for its newsletter. Three years ago, hydrogen seemed poised for a long-awaited breakthrough. The Biden administration announced $7 billion in federal

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• CCanary Media2026-10-15✓ Read

  A new class of batteries helps data centers play nicely with the grid

  Lithium-ion batteries could do so much for AI data centers and the power grid. They’re cheaper than the fossil-gas turbines that tech giants are building at gigawatt scale for their “AI factories.” They can cushion the cost of building out grid infrastructure and power plants just to serve data centers’ peak energy

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• CCanary Media2026-10-14✓ Read

  Nuclear-powered data centers? It’s a tough sell in Utah coal country

  This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter . Cindy O’Neil understands the boom-and-bust cycles of industry. Her husband spent years working in Carbon County’s namesake coal mines. In this pocket of central Utah, energy and the economy have long been intrinsically linked, at

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• CCanary Media2026-10-14✓ Read

  How one Chicago program is diversifying the solar workforce

  CHICAGO — On a beautiful fall Saturday morning on the South Side of Chicago, the Life Center Church of God in Christ thrummed with excitement. The pews were packed with over a thousand people dressed in their best — including more than a hundred in black graduation caps and gowns. Before praying, Pastor Torrey L.

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• CCanary Media2026-10-13✓ Read

  What to say to Californians worried about grid batteries

  This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Hi everyone! Welcome back to California Wire. Last Thursday, I took the train up to Sacramento to participate in a panel at the California Energy Storage

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• CCanary Media2026-10-13✓ Read

  Trump goes after an offshore wind farm that’s already up and running

  After halting construction on offshore wind farms and canceling leases for future projects, the Trump administration just took another step to erode America’s troubled offshore wind industry. The Interior Department wants to reevaluate a key approval for Revolution Wind — a $6.2 billion project that is already

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• CCanary Media2026-10-13✓ Read

  Solar industry spends to flip control of Georgia utility commission

  Voters will have a chance to pick their utility regulators in nine states this November. But Georgia is one of the only states that could flip party control of its public utility commission, an often overlooked institution that determines how much people’s energy bills will rise. Last year, as energy affordability

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• CCanary Media2026-10-13✓ Read

  Qcells aims to build a giant factory for next-gen tandem solar

  Qcells , one of the most prolific solar manufacturers operating in the U.S., is staking a claim on the next generation of solar power. Laboratory scientists have established that solar panels convert sunlight to electricity with much higher efficiency if traditional silicon cells are paired with layers of

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• CCanary Media2026-10-12✓ Read

  With scaled-back plans, green banks navigate Trump’s funding freeze

  A community solar project built for New Orleans’ oldest historically Black Catholic order of nuns. An all-electric affordable housing complex in Salt Lake City. A program offering low-income Maryland households inexpensive loans for rooftop solar and energy efficiency. These are just some of the recent projects

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• CCanary Media2026-10-12✓ Read

  A new gas line or cash to electrify? California lets households…

  When one of the nation’s biggest investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas and Electric, wanted to replace Merrian Borgeson’s aging gas service line in Berkeley, California, she asked the company not to do it. Borgeson, who is the California policy director for climate and energy at the nonprofit Natural Resources

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