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US coal giant Peabody and Germany’s RWE are teaming up to develop 5.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar and energy storage projects on former mining land in the Midwest.

The Mockingbird Solar Center, Ørsted’s largest solar project globally, is now online, next to protected prairie donated by the renewable energy giant.

Caltrain, the 160-year-old San Francisco to San Jose rail corridor, has ditched diesel and is now fully electric.

Arevon Energy has kicked off operations at Vikings Solar-plus-Storage – one of the US’s first utility-scale solar peaker plants.

Xcel Energy has started delivering clean energy from one of the US’s largest solar farms: Sherco Solar in Minnesota. It’s a major step in the utility’s push to ditch coal and move to renewable energy across the Upper Midwest.

Corporate America is investing in clean energy at record levels, with tech giants taking the top spots for users of solar.

Arizona’s grid is getting a huge 200 MW Tesla lithium-ion battery energy storage system to support the state’s growing energy demand.

Penske Truck Leasing is rolling out rooftop solar on its US truck leasing, rental, and maintenance buildings, starting in Illinois.

Eco Wave Power (Nasdaq: WAVE) has secured the final permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers to install its first onshore wave energy system in the US at AltaSea’s site in the Port of Los Angeles. This pilot project will be the first of its kind in the US.

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid.

The first EV charging hub funded by the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program in the Eastern US is now online in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin.

China’s CHN Energy has connected the first solar units from its 1-gigawatt (GW) offshore solar farm – the world’s first and largest of its kind – to the grid.

Chevy EV owners in Texas who have Reliant as their electric utility can now charge for free at night with renewable energy.

Texas is about to get a major power boost – a new AI-powered virtual power plant (VPP) delivering capacity equivalent to 200,000 homes during peak demand.

Following Donald Trump’s US election win, the UK has stepped into a leadership role at COP29, and it’s just announced a more ambitious climate goal.

Hitachi Energy debuts Nostradamus AI, which delivers fast, accurate renewable energy forecasts, load predictions, and market pricing insights.

Enphase Energy (Nasdaq: ENPH) said in a statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it will lay off 17% of its global workforce to “streamline its operations.”

A “UK-first” intercity battery trial train proved that single battery technology can outperform diesel engines cost-effectively.

Faster progress on energy efficiency is crucial if we’re going to meet the global 2030 goal, but a year after countries pledged at COP28 to double energy efficiency improvements by 2030, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says we’re still falling short.

Support for Biden’s federal clean energy incentives cuts across party lines – 78% of 2020 Trump voters support them.