Daily Clean Energy Briefings — page 5 of 10

New York's Legislature passed a first-in-the-nation one-year moratorium on data center permits, signaling that the explosive demand from AI and cloud computing is colliding head-on with clean energy…

Google and Intersect Power are building a 1-GW-plus clean energy complex in the Texas Panhandle that co-locates a data center with wind, solar, battery storage, and gas-fired generation — a blueprint…

The American Clean Power Association reports that U.S. solar has officially overtaken wind as the nation's largest clean power source, even as total capacity additions fell 17% year-over-year — a…

Seven states launched a coordinated legal assault against the Trump administration on Tuesday over a nearly $1 billion deal paying TotalEnergies to walk away from offshore wind leases, marking the…

Florida just opened a statewide pipeline for floating solar on highway stormwater ponds — a first-of-its-kind deal that could unlock gigawatts of capacity in one of America's most land-constrained…

House Republicans are advancing new inspection fees on offshore wind projects that developers warn could exceed charges levied on oil and gas facilities, adding yet another layer of financial…

The American clean energy manufacturing base now spans 825 active facilities across all 50 states and is on track to surpass 950 by 2030, according to a sweeping new report from the American Clean…

House Republicans are pushing steep new inspection fees that could cripple the economics of offshore wind development in U.S. waters, even as states from New York to New Jersey race to lock in clean…

California just greenlit a monster — a 3.2 GWh battery storage project fast-tracked through Governor Newsom's accelerated permitting program, signaling that states are finding ways to slash red tape…

Big Tech's insatiable appetite for clean power is reshaping the American energy landscape, with Meta, Google, and a roster of Fortune 500 companies collectively contracting for more than 1.5…

The U.S. power grid is entering summer in its strongest position in years — thanks largely to a wave of new solar and battery storage capacity — even as the explosive growth of data centers threatens…

The U.S. energy storage sector shattered records in the first quarter of 2026, installing 9.7 GWh of new capacity — the strongest Q1 ever — even as the Trump administration's shifting policy…

Four Western states are joining forces to unlock what could be hundreds of gigawatts of geothermal energy capacity, launching the most ambitious multi-state clean energy collaboration in years — even…

A drone strike on a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates has rattled global energy markets and raised urgent questions about infrastructure security, even as the U.S. battery storage…

Antora Energy's 5 GWh thermal battery system at a South Dakota ethanol plant is now drawing intense industry attention as one of the largest energy storage installations on the planet — a bold proof…

A massive 5 GWh thermal energy storage system — among the largest of its kind — has gone live at a South Dakota biofuels facility, signaling that long-duration storage technology is moving from pilot…

Nearly $1 billion in new financing for Texas solar-plus-storage projects and a 365-MW Wyoming facility for Meta underscore how data center demand continues to turbocharge utility-scale renewable…

The proposed Dominion Energy-NextEra Energy merger — which would create the nation's largest regulated utility at 110 gigawatts — is now drawing scrutiny over what it means for Virginia ratepayers…

House Democrats are demanding a classified briefing on the Trump administration's sweeping blockade of roughly 200 wind energy projects on national security grounds, escalating a political…

NextEra Energy is reportedly near a deal to acquire rival utility Dominion Energy, a blockbuster consolidation that would reshape the American power sector and unite the nation's largest renewable…

Texas solar generation is now officially on track to surpass coal in 2026 — projected at 78,000 GWh versus coal's 60,000 GWh — marking a historic inflection point in America's largest…

Texas continues to cement its dominance as the epicenter of America's solar boom, with nearly $1 billion in new project financing, a landmark joint venture for a 670 MW facility, and fresh…

Meta signed 850MW of solar and storage power purchase agreements across three states, the latest signal that Big Tech's insatiable appetite for data center power is rapidly reshaping the American…

Ford Energy's entry into utility-scale battery storage with a $2 billion investment plan collides with a wave of sodium-ion breakthroughs and BESS deployments across the Sun Belt, signaling that the…

The Trump administration's EPA moved to let power plants, data centers, and factories break ground before securing air-emission permits — a sweeping regulatory rollback that could accelerate fossil…

The Pentagon's freeze on wind energy permitting has now ballooned to more than 250 stalled projects representing 30 GW of potential capacity, dramatically expanding the scope of the Trump…

A U.S. investor fund is threatening to dump its TotalEnergies stake over the French oil major's retreat from offshore wind, in what may be the most forceful signal yet that the Trump administration's…

The Trump administration is blocking 228 wind projects across the United States on national security grounds, a sweeping action that the American Clean Power Association warns could freeze the…

PJM Interconnection is reviewing more than 800 new power project proposals — its first major queue opening in four years — as data center demand reshapes the nation's largest grid, while a new…

California's battery storage fleet now rivals the output of 12 nuclear power plants, a milestone that lands just as the state subpoenas developers of a 2GW offshore wind project over an alleged deal…