VPPs built out of home solar and battery systems could bolster the overtaxed power grid, lower energy costs for consumers, and help invigorate a… ...

A transmission line cuts between a solar farm and the coal-fired Fort Martin Power Station in West Virginia, one of the 13 states served by PJM (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) ...

Solar panels and electric buses can boost school budgets while cutting emissions. Here’s how Steelton-Highspire School District put both to use.

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Transmission towers along the Indiana-Illinois border. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) A battle is brewing over who gets to plug into the Midwest’s power grid first. Utilities and state regulators are ...

California state Senator Josh Becker is worried that the Golden State is undermining a pillar of its clean energy transition: distributed solar power. Though California has more large-scale solar and ...

Sarah Shemkus is a reporter at Canary Media who is based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and covers New England.

New solar, wind, and batteries could be a huge help to grid reliability. Instead, Trump is propping up a false solution: old, unprofitable coal plants.

The coal-fired Scherer power plant in Juliette, Georgia. Georgia Power's new integrated resource plan proposes keeping several coal power plants open past previously planned closure dates. (Marli ...

California’s grid isn’t growing fast enough to hook up EV chargers or electrify buildings. A new law aims to speed up utility grid buildouts to meet these needs. Faster and more flexible grid ...

A three-year effort to revamp California’s moribund community-solar market, spurred by state law and backed by solar industry groups, consumer advocates, environmental-justice organizations, labor ...