Canary Media | Covering the clean energy transition
Ambitious, nonprofit journalism powered by RMI for the clean energy transition, economy-wide decarbonization, and climate tech markets.
Chart: US solar installations hit record high, but… | Canary Media
Dec 6, 2024 · That’s because this year’s “ uniquely high” installations were driven by the expiration of a two-year moratorium on tariffs targeting solar panels made in Southeast Asia, S & P wrote. That pause, which ended in June, allowed companies to stockpile cheap panels, but developers were required to use up that inventory by December 3 to avoid paying duties.
Chart: The US battery market is on track for its best year yet
Jul 5, 2024 · With this new data in hand, the prediction looks even more likely to be realized. The country installed more than double the amount of utility-scale storage in Q 1 2024 than it did over the same period a year prior. And overall battery storage installations — meaning not just utility-scale projects, but home and commercial installations as well — were 84 percent higher than in Q 1 …
Chart: Nearly all new US power plants built in 2024… | Canary Media
Feb 23, 2024 · The latest federal forecast for power plant additions shows solar sweeping with 58 % of all new utility-scale generating capacity this year. In an upset, battery storage will provide the second-most new capacity, with 23 %. Wind delivers a modest 13 %, while the long-delayed final nuclear reactor at Vogtle in Georgia will add 2 % of new capacity, assuming it …
California’s rooftop solar is a benefit, not a cost,… | Canary Media
Nov 15, 2024 · Utilities across the country have used this same cost-shift argument to fight various state-level policies that benefit rooftop solar. The aim is typically to water down or roll back net-metering programs, which pay customers for the power their rooftop solar systems send back to the grid.. Rooftop solar supporters dispute the cost-shift argument, which originated from the Edison Electric ...
The biggest grid storage project using old batteries… | Canary Media
Nov 21, 2024 · Texas project installed, manufacturing in the works. When we first spoke in late 2022, Stratakos planned to build the Texas plant in 2023 and start shipping the remainder of its battery stockpile in 2024.. The actual installation process turned out to be “ a learning experience,” Stratakos told me last week, meaning it took longer and cost more than initially planned — “ …
New York City tests a solar-powered… | Canary Media
Nov 4, 2024 · New York City utility Con Edison will need to be able to charge about 10, 000 electric school buses on its constrained power grid within the next 10 years or so. A $ 9 million pilot project in Brooklyn could help it figure out how to do that.. The project is starting small. Four battery-electric school buses are onsite today, with 12 more expected by the start of …
With new draft rules, Vermont’s clean heat standard… | Canary …
Oct 8, 2024 · Vermont passed its Affordable Heat Act in 2023, marking the official start of the state’s transition from heating homes with fossil fuels to using cleaner alternatives instead — a shift that will be crucial to meeting state climate goals.. Last week, Vermont reached a milestone in implementing the law: Its Public Utility Commission (PUC) released draft rules for how the clean heat standard ...
Coal-to-solar developer BrightNight lands $440M… | Canary Media
Oct 8, 2024 · Renewable energy developer BrightNight just closed a $ 440 million strategic investment from banking giant Goldman Sachs.. The equity investment will help Florida-based BrightNight build out its pipeline of utility-scale solar and energy storage projects, which together represent 31 gigawatts of clean power, the company announced on Monday. Among those projects is the 810-megawatt solar ...
Chart: Gas-powered cars are losing market share to EVs… | Canary …
Mar 1, 2024 · The change is driven in part by a surge in sales for hybrid vehicles with a gas-powered engine and an onboard battery but no plug, which together with plug-in hybrids made up nearly 10 percent of new car sales last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But although hybrids burn less gas than a conventional car, they don’t offer a pathway to eliminating carbon ...