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Canary Media is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. We report on how the world is decarbonizing - from electricity to transportation, buildings, and industry - with a critical focus on finding out what works and what doesn't.
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17h ago
The Nuclear Company , a venture capital–funded project-development firm, came out of stealth last week and announced eye-raising plans: It aims to deploy a 6-gigawatt nuclear-fission reactor fleet by the mid-2030s. That 6 gigawatts would represent more nuclear-generating capacity than the U.S. has deployed in the ..read more
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2d ago
Tesla may be struggling when it comes to electric vehicle sales, but its energy storage business is on a serious upswing. In the second quarter of this year, Tesla deployed 9.4 gigawatt-hours of battery storage , a record for the firm and more than double its deployment in Q2 of last year. Revenue from the firm’s ..read more
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2d ago
An under-the-radar U.S. agency is pushing efforts to slash emissions from buildings, marshaling billions of dollars to test and deploy new carbon-cutting technologies and materials at properties owned by the federal government. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) was founded 75 years ago to help the ..read more
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2d ago
If California wants to meet its goal of building gigawatts of floating wind turbines off its coast in the coming decades, the state needs to go big or go home. So say clean-energy industry groups and environmental advocates who are praising a recent proposal from the California Public Utilities Commission that they ..read more
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3d ago
The U.S. still has a chance to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet its 2030 climate commitments. But that chance rests on keeping key clean energy incentives and climate regulations in place — something that will itself depend on which party wins control of the federal government in November. So finds ..read more
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3d ago
On a recent Friday night, after hot veggie stir-fry and cold drinks, my husband, a few friends, and I broke out a new clean energy board game. Called Pampero , the game is all about harnessing wind power in the South American country of Uruguay, which has made some of the most rapid progress toward decarbonizing its ..read more
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4d ago
On January 20, 2021 — his first day in office — President Joe Biden signaled his intention to make climate change a serious priority: He rejoined the Paris Agreement, which his predecessor Donald Trump withdrew from in 2017. It was an encouraging start for a candidate who had promised to deliver big on climate while ..read more
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4d ago
Utility-scale solar in Puerto Rico has just received a $861 million boost from the federal government. On Thursday, the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office announced a conditional commitment to finance new solar and battery storage facilities on the southern coast of the island. The two solar farms under the ..read more
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4d ago
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — The signs of Iceland’s geothermal riches are hard to miss. Earlier this summer, bright orange lava sprayed like a fountain and flowed like a river from an active volcano, visible from miles away. Out on older lava fields, thick steam clouds rose from the ground as the earth brimmed with heat. The ..read more
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Renewable energy still supplies less of the world’s electricity than fossil fuels do, but it’s being built at a rate that far outpaces the construction of non-renewable forms of energy. Last year, renewables accounted for nearly 86 percent of new electricity capacity worldwide, according to new data from the ..read more