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U.S. battery storage hits 52 GW after three years of 70% annual growth
The buildout, projected to double again to 105 GW by 2028, is reshaping how developers site solar projects and how grid operators plan for reliability — but PJM's reformed interconnection queue…
Tesla files for tax incentives on a $10.1 billion solar factory in Texas
The proposed facility in Fort Bend County — 3,050 acres, 9,712 permanent jobs, vertically integrated from wafer to module — would be the largest single manufacturing investment the company has ever…
The ITC sunset hits 680 solar projects in the crosshairs
With projects starting construction after July 4 losing access to the 30% federal Investment Tax Credit, developers are scrambling to restructure economics around power purchase agreements — a shift…
Tesla plans a $10.1 billion solar cell factory in Texas
The project, internally dubbed "Project Crystal Sun," would rank among the largest clean energy manufacturing investments ever announced in the United States — a bet that domestic solar production…
U.S. offshore wind's collapse leaves trained workers stranded
As projects evaporate across the Eastern Seaboard, a generation of technicians who retooled their careers for the industry now faces an uncertain future — a workforce problem that will compound any…
Federal judge orders Pentagon to restart wind project reviews
The ruling unblocks more than 155 onshore wind projects stalled after the Trump administration halted routine Defense Department permitting assessments for turbines over 200 feet tall.
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to end its wind farm blockade
The ruling, issued by a Trump-appointed judge in Oregon, forces the Department of Defense to resume routine military evaluations of proposed wind projects after months of what developers called a de…
Trump's new 15% polysilicon tariff hits solar supply chain
The trade action, targeting Chinese manufacturing, threatens to raise module costs just as Texas cements its position as the nation's battery storage capital with a wave of new projects reaching…
Base Power closes $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation to scale U.S.-made home batteries
The round — backed by Ribbit and Valor Equity Partners — funds manufacturing expansion at the company's Austin plant and a push beyond its current Texas and Illinois footprint, signaling that…
Texas halts all new data center grid connections pending audits
Governor Greg Abbott's order freezes approvals statewide, injecting fresh uncertainty into the renewable energy buildout that data center demand has been driving across the state.
DOE backs AEP Texas with a $3.26 billion loan for baseload and nuclear
The financing package — the largest single commitment from the department's Loan Programs Office in months — signals the Trump administration's willingness to deploy federal capital for grid…
Local permit denials are piling up across the country
Local permit denials are piling up across the country, blocking gigawatts of solar and storage capacity at the county level even as state commissions greenlight landmark projects. The split signals a…
Antora Energy banks $550 million to mass-produce thermal batteries
The Series C round — one of the largest ever for a storage startup — targets industrial decarbonization and the insatiable power appetite of AI data centers, a sector now reshaping grid planning from…
Trump administration bans new foreign-made inverters, throwing a wrench into solar, wind
Trump administration bans new foreign-made inverters, throwing a wrench into solar, wind, and storage project pipelines nationwide. The FCC order, citing national security, could delay gigawatts of…
MN8 Energy will pay up to $375 million for Greenbacker Renewable Energy
MN8 Energy will pay up to $375 million for Greenbacker Renewable Energy, merging two independent power producers into a 6-GW platform that would rank among the largest pure-play clean energy…
Illinois orders 3 GW of battery storage, turning Chicago's vacant lots into prime energy real estate
The state-level mandate is already reshaping land values and deal structures across the metro area, giving storage developers a rare policy runway even as federal clean energy incentives face ongoing…
Canadian Solar's subsidiary opens a 6 GW solar cell factory in Indiana
Canadian Solar's subsidiary opens a 6 GW solar cell factory in Indiana , anchoring a nearly $1 billion bet on domestic manufacturing. The Jeffersonville plant — producing heterojunction bifacial…
Xcel Energy's Sherco coal plant in Minnesota is giving way to utility-scale solar and battery…
Xcel Energy's Sherco coal plant in Minnesota is giving way to utility-scale solar and battery storage, adding to a quiet drumbeat of coal retirements that continues despite the Trump administration's…
The Trump administration admitted in court it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants solely…
The Trump administration admitted in court it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants solely because recipient states voted Democratic. The disclosure — spread across federal filings in multiple…
Brookfield pays $7 billion for battery developer Aypa Power
The deal — the largest pure-play storage acquisition on record — hands Brookfield 6.5 GW of operating and under-construction capacity plus a 20-GW-plus pipeline, signaling that institutional capital…
Solar and storage grabbed 91% of all new U.S. grid capacity in the first quarter of 2026
Solar and storage grabbed 91% of all new U.S. grid capacity in the first quarter of 2026, and solar generation topped coal for the first time in May — now supplying roughly 13% of American…
Minnesota's largest solar farm hits 710 MW on a retired coal site
Xcel Energy's Sherco Solar project in Becker completed its third phase, with a proposed fourth that would push the coal-to-solar conversion to 910 MW — a template the industry is watching as…
National Grid commits $1.75 billion to U.S. data center power infrastructure
The British utility's bet on AI-driven electricity demand signals that load growth from hyperscale computing is reshaping capital flows even as federal clean energy policy remains in flux under the…
Virginia data centers are building their own gas turbines to dodge seven-year grid queues
Virginia data centers are building their own gas turbines to dodge seven-year grid queues, testing whether behind-the-meter fossil generation can sidestep state clean energy mandates. With 70 GW…
Oklahoma's thinning water supplies are emerging as a hidden dealbreaker for data center developers…
Oklahoma's thinning water supplies are emerging as a hidden dealbreaker for data center developers chasing cheap power in the Southern Plains. The constraint could redirect billions in load growth —…
Eight state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over $2 billion in settlements…
Eight state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over $2 billion in settlements paid to energy companies that abandoned offshore wind projects. The legal challenge, combined with…
Google's 2.5 GW Arkansas solar-and-storage deal now has a signed contract and a 2029 completion…
Google's 2.5 GW Arkansas solar-and-storage deal now has a signed contract and a 2029 completion target, making it the largest single corporate clean energy procurement in U.S. history. The sheer…
Google and Cypress Creek break ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage complex in Arkansas that would…
Google and Cypress Creek break ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage complex in Arkansas that would rank as the largest single solar project in the United States. The Steel River Energy Center, built…
Google and Cypress Creek broke ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas
Google and Cypress Creek broke ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas — the largest in U.S. history. The Steel River Energy Center, backed by a virtual PPA for 100% of its initial…
Federal permitting bottlenecks have now stalled over 450 solar and storage projects
Federal permitting bottlenecks have now stalled over 450 solar and storage projects — 36% of planned U.S. power capacity through 2030 — threatening $120 billion in consumer costs, according to a new…