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A new North Carolina factory will build large power transformers. How do they help the clean energy transition?
Big boxes of steel, iron, and mineral oil. That’s how John Gajda, a long-time utility engineer and professor at North Carolina State University, describes the power transformers Siemens Energy plans…
Cleveland summit spotlights growing corporate interest in clean energy projects
Companies have a smoother road for getting management to greenlight clean energy projects now than they did five years ago, thanks to corporate climate commitments, federal incentives and more. And…
Minnesota reboots community solar program with new focus on lower-income residents
Minnesota community solar developers are adjusting their business plans as the state’s program undergoes some of the biggest changes since its launch over a decade ago. One of the oldest…
Mass. drivers will save money charging EVs at night — but when and how much?
Charging electric vehicles in Massachusetts could get less expensive under a pair of utility proposals now under consideration, but advocates are arguing for tweaks they say would make the transition…
Why a natural gas storage climate ‘disaster’ could happen again
On a November afternoon in 2022, a 57-year-old well tapped into an underground natural gas storage reservoir in western Pennsylvania started leaking, fast enough that people a few miles away…
Power companies paid civil rights leaders in the South. They became loyal industry advocates.
This article by Floodlight and Capital B is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Former Florida state Rep. Joe Gibbons sat in the library…
Virginia districts roll on with electric school buses despite lack of state funding
A lack of state money isn’t curbing Virginia school districts’ enthusiasm for ridding their fleets of polluting, noisy diesel-powered buses. Through December, Virginia ranked fourth nationwide in the number of…
IRA offers lucrative incentives for low-income community solar, but also creates new challenges
Community solar is inherently a way to expand equity in solar access, as advocates describe it, since it makes clean energy and savings accessible to people who lack the capital…
Commentary: Demand response could have prevented blackouts in North Carolina
The following commentary was written by Shelley Hudson Robbins, Project Director at the Clean Energy Group. See our commentary guidelines for more information. The North Carolina Utilities Commission just dropped a…