When engineers at RheEnergise popped champagne in January, they were celebrating a milestone most people have never heard of: 500 kilowatts of peak power from a…
More than 2,000 sheep roam the flat, sun-baked expanse of Swisher County, Texas — threading between rows of solar panels in a landscape that has never…
California’s electricity grid powers tens of millions of homes, businesses, and electric vehicles across a state larger than most countries. In 2026, something remarkable is happening…
Blow across the neck of an empty bottle and you get a clean, resonant note — a party trick most people forget about by the next…
A low gray wall behind a credit union in downtown Des Moines, holding back a bank of earth at the edge of a parking lot. Precast…
Starting July 1, 2026, millions of Australians in Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia will receive electricity at no cost between 11 a.m. and 2…
Africa has long struggled to keep its lights on. Unreliable grids, soaring fuel import costs, and surging industrial demand have left governments and investors searching for…
A research farm in central Jutland, a little over 56 degrees north, flat fields under a pale sky. Across one of them run rows of solar…
Australia’s ghost lakes kept growing for two years straight — then a satellite caught it A Landsat 8 satellite image from October 30, 2024 shows something…
Europe’s nuclear plants are bending in the heat — but a new study shows energy losses have plummeted 91% since 2003 Every summer now, Europe braces…
Every morning, your coffee leaves behind a “second harvest” that scientists are turning into ultra-pure fuel for planes, trucks, and a cleaner energy future. Every morning,…
California’s gas plants are losing ground to solar and batteries faster than predicted On a sweltering August afternoon in 2026, California’s electricity grid hit its yearly…
Millions of aging solar panels are piling up with nowhere to go. A Texas startup says it can recover 96% of their critical materials on U.S.…
Maya Hart’s hand stung as she gripped the stick shift of her Dodge Ram, inching north from Galveston Island in the punishing September heat. She’d been…
Europe’s worst hydro summer in seven years barely caused a flicker — solar quietly absorbed the shortfall Europe’s summer of 2026 was, by one important measure,…
Thousands of mirrors stretch across the Gobi Desert outside Dunhuang, each one tracking the arc of the sun and bending its light toward a single tower…
The U.S. power grid is straining under a demand surge unlike anything it has faced before. More than 12,000 active projects are currently seeking grid interconnection,…
America’s solar boom is quietly taking root in unexpected places. A capped municipal landfill in southern New Hampshire. A 595-person ranching town in coastal California that…
The crisis of deteriorating water and wastewater infrastructure is no longer an isolated problem occurring in isolated locations. In its State of the Water Industry Report,…
A catamaran-shaped solar platform measuring 64 meters by 41 meters — carrying 600 solar modules and 500 kilowatts of generating capacity — has arrived at the…
Sometime around July 21, 2026, boaters on Williston Reservoir in British Columbia came across something that had no business being there: a landmass roughly the size…
For nearly a decade, South Africa endured rolling blackouts that its state utility couldn’t fix. So businesses and homeowners fixed it themselves — pouring billions into…
America’s power grid is divided into regions that rarely share electricity across their boundaries. That’s largely still true today — but a 420-mile transmission line now…
When the Trump administration shredded the Biden-era $7 billion Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program, US green hydrogen stakeholders were left counting their losses. Offshore wind stalled.…
George Wolff was still wiping the day off his hands when he leaned out to greet a visitor from the window of a parked truck —…
Africa officially added about 4.5 GW of solar last year. It imported roughly 18 GW of modules in the same period. That gap isn’t a rounding…
When a government invokes national security to halt an offshore wind project, the warning lands with weight. Turbines rising from the sea — structures tall enough…
Flying into a hurricane means accepting that the plane might suddenly drop hundreds of meters with no warning. In 2021, one research flight plunged roughly 500…
Somewhere beneath the Atlantic, a shark is doing the work of a weather buoy — gliding through the warm, deep water that quietly powers hurricanes. It…
Over a million Sandhill Cranes converge on Nebraska each spring — and a new ruling just protected their migration route Every spring, more than a million…
Before dawn on January 23, 1973, the island of Heimaey shook awake. A mile-long fissure had split open just half a mile from town, shooting fountains…
Boston temperatures were climbing toward 90°F, air conditioners were running across the region, and electricity demand was rising — exactly the conditions a decade-long, $1 billion-plus…
Solar panels and frozen lakes don’t belong in the same sentence — at least not in any engineer’s comfort zone. Yet floating solar, a technology that…
In Germany, more than 4 million apartment dwellers have been doing it for years: prop a small solar panel on a balcony railing, plug it into…
For years, the glass bottle plant at 4202 Fidelity St. was part of the fabric of Jacinto City, Texas. Then it went quiet in July 2024…
Nebraska’s renewable energy tax is reshaping some communities, but wind and solar wealth piles up in just 10 counties In 2017, the O’Neill Public School District…
Massachusetts lawmakers have been celebrating a rare moment of bipartisan progress. Two energy bills — one from the House, one from the Senate — cleared the…
New Mexico’s wind farms threatened millions of birds — until conservationists rerouted river crossings and added wire diverters The largest renewable energy infrastructure project in U.S.…
The rolling hills of Vermont in August smell like warm earth, hydrangea, and sun-ripened tomatoes. What they don’t smell like — at least not at this…
Floating solar works remarkably well — until the water stops cooperating. On calm reservoirs and sheltered lakes, conventional systems perform reliably. But push them into choppy…
At Fresno’s Northeast Surface Water Treatment Plant, the solar array looks wrong at first glance. There are no steel frames, no elevated rows tilting toward the…
Most of the world’s strongest offshore winds blow over water too deep for conventional turbines to reach. Beyond roughly 200 feet of depth, the steel foundations…
Inside a wind tunnel at Politecnico di Milano, two scale-model turbines stand just three rotor diameters apart. The upstream one bobs and tilts on a robotic…
Arctic cold locked down the northeastern U.S. for weeks this winter — heating systems running flat out, electricity prices climbing, grid operators watching the margins shrink.…
North Carolina’s rooftop solar installers had every reason to brace for collapse. The 30% federal tax credit that made home panels affordable for millions of households…
Somewhere on the floor of the North Atlantic, roughly 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste sit in the cold and the dark — a quiet consequence of…
Beneath the glaciers and snowfields of High Mountain Asia, an invisible crisis is deepening. The region — known as the “Asian Water Tower” — feeds rivers…
China builds almost everything in its renewable energy supply chain itself. Foreign companies rarely get a seat at the table — and almost none have managed…
A parked wind turbine looks inert — blades locked, rotor still, no energy being generated. But stillness doesn’t mean safety. During extreme wind events, stationary blades…
On the Atlantic coast of Portugal, a breakwater sits under repair — battered by storms that halted one of Europe’s most closely watched wave energy projects…
