Coal will make up 85% of electric generating capacity retirements in 2022 – Here’s why
US electricity generator operators have scheduled 14.9 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity to retire during 2022, and the vast…
US electricity generator operators have scheduled 14.9 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity to retire during 2022, and the vast…
Wind and solar, the fastest-growing sources of electricity, reached a record 10% of global electricity in 50 countries in 2021,…
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecast in its January Short-Term Energy Outlook that rising electricity generation from clean energy such…
Houston-headquartered renewables company EDP Renewables North America has completed a 200-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Randolph County, Indiana, northeast of…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Ørsted says Block Island is offline for summer maintenance, and rumors are flying….
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The US installed a record 26 gigawatts of new clean energy in 2020,…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The Tennessee Valley Authority implodes its oldest coal-fired power plant. The UK’s Ministry…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The largest private coal company in the US, owned by Robert Murray (above),…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): China built more new wind farms in 2020 than the world combined in…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): A climate group report shows fossil-fuel financing continues to rise despite Paris Agreement…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Two huge infrastructure plans will power New York City with wind, solar, and…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): If just six countries took action now, it would eliminate 82% of the…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Tesla models make up more than half of US EV sales in 2021….
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Arizona’s Navajo Generating Station coal plant’s smokestacks have been toppled — VIDEO. The…
2021 was a record-breaking year for investment in and deployment of clean energy, battery storage, and EVs in the US,…
West Virginia’s largest solar farm will sit on the site of the 5,800-acre Hobet Mine, one of the state’s largest…
For the first time ever, renewable power generation – that’s wind, solar, hydro, biomass, and geothermal – exceeded coal-fired generation…
The US Department of Energy (DOE) yesterday released a study stating that 80% of US coal power plant sites could be converted…
Coal investor and US Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) opposes his own political party’s clean energy program. And since not a…
Plans in Europe to place a small number of coal plants on temporary standby would only add 1.3% to EU emissions…
COP26, also known as the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021, kicks off Sunday October 31, and officially runs…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): GM endorses the EPA’s stricter emissions rule, and 22 states say it’s not…
Clean energy achieved momentum globally in 2022, yet it was something destructive that triggered that momentum.
Electric utility FirstEnergy Corp., which serves most of northern West Virginia, is going to repurpose a former coal ash landfill…