Data center demand drives 33% jump in VPP deployments: Wood Mackenzie

But virtual power plant capacity rose more slowly than deployments last year, highlighting barriers to broader adoption, WoodMac said.

By Brian Martucci • Sept. 22, 2025

Clean energy jobs grew in 2024 but face policy threats: E2

Clean energy jobs outpaced growth in the rest of the energy sector as well as overall employment growth.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 22, 2025

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Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources. 

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Mars signs solar PPAs with Enel to speed energy transition across supply chain

The confectionery company is teaming up with Enel North America on a trio of renewable purchase agreements estimated to annually generate 1.8 TWh from three Texas solar projects.

By Zoya Mirza • Sept. 22, 2025

AI’s electricity demand is a challenge utilities can’t ignore, but subsidies aren’t the solution

Utilities need portfolios that balance renewables and natural gas with long-duration storage, writes Stefan Pastine, CEO of semiconductor materials company Thintronics.

By Stefan Pastine • Sept. 22, 2025

Connecticut and Rhode Island file for injunction to restart Revolution Wind

The states argue in their motion that Revolution Wind is “real, fully permitted, and nearly complete.”

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 18, 2025

Bipartisan House group releases permitting reform ‘framework’

This and other permitting reform efforts — supported by groups like the Edison Electric Institute — come amid rising electric demand and increasing electricity bills.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 18, 2025

Regulators approve demand charge, net metering changes for NV Energy

Consumer advocates say the changes will worsen energy affordability issues in Nevada and make NV Energy’s solar net metering program less effective for customers.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 18, 2025

Eversource faces financial risk over Trump administration’s offshore wind stop-work order: Fitch

At the same time, New Hampshire's governor signals that an Eversource Energy utility may face more regulatory challenges.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 17, 2025

CenterPoint Energy courts Minnesota communities for networked geothermal pilot

The utility is hoping to prove to local governments that such decarbonization efforts can meet residents’ energy needs in a cold-weather climate.

By Brian Martucci • Sept. 16, 2025

Thermal power plants more competitive than clean energy when considering reliability: Vistra CEO

Even so, in the near term Vistra President and CEO Jim Burke expects solar and batteries to do well because they can be built quickly.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 12, 2025

Entergy expects data centers to drive 13% near-term annual industrial sales growth: CEO

With new gas-fired generation expected, Entergy faces challenges in meeting its 50% carbon reduction goal for 2030, CEO Drew Marsh said.

By Ethan Howland • Updated Sept. 24, 2025

Amid policy pressures, clean energy investment is diversifying: Crux

Data from the first half of this year shows clean energy investment continuing to increase, but changing in shape, said Crux CEO Alfred Johnson.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 11, 2025

‘Green banks’ petition for rehearing in $14B EPA funding freeze case

A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 to uphold the EPA’s freeze on Inflation Reduction Act grants, but the plaintiffs have asked for a rehearing from the entire appeals court.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 11, 2025

Complaint over MISO’s $22B transmission portfolio faces widespread opposition

Granting the complaint from five utility commissions could delay adding power supplies in the Midcontinent region and hurt reliability, according to comments filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 10, 2025

Solar, storage are booming, but federal policy is driving costs higher: SEIA/WoodMac report

Residential solar pricing is up 2% year over year, commercial systems are up 10% and utility-scale pricing is up 4%, according to new research.

By Robert Walton • Sept. 9, 2025

RE+ kicks off in Las Vegas under shadow of Trump’s war on renewables

Technological and market advances have pushed renewable energy toward an ever-larger share of the energy mix despite policy shifts, tariffs and the hostility of the Trump administration, attendees said.

By Meris Lutz • Sept. 8, 2025

Clean energy developers hope for clarity in upcoming FEOC guidance

The foreign entity of concern rules in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are onerous and complicated, with “multiple traps for the unwary,” said Vinson & Elkins tax partner Lauren Collins.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 8, 2025

Fed primed for rate cut as hiring slumps, unemployment inches up to 4.3%

Traders in interest rate futures, responding to new labor market data, increased the odds that the Fed will cut the benchmark interest rate by at least 0.75 percentage point before next year.

By Jim Tyson • Sept. 5, 2025

Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it

Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.

By Amory B. Lovins • Sept. 5, 2025

Trump’s FERC nominees pledge agency independence in Senate confirmation hearing

Nominees Laura Swett and David LaCerte said they support the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s independence and the need to be agnostic on generating technologies.

By Ethan Howland • Sept. 5, 2025

This 4-GW renewables joint venture aims to play the long game

Two European renewable energy firms are teaming up to develop a significant portfolio of wind, solar and energy storage projects in the Western United States.

By Brian Martucci • Sept. 5, 2025

Global solar installations rise 64%, to 380 GW, in first half of 2025

China led the pack in solar installations, adding 256 GW — more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 4, 2025

Trump escalates war against offshore wind as Danish developer strikes back

The administration moved to revoke another offshore wind permit as the developer of a different blocked project filed a lawsuit.

By Meris Lutz • Sept. 4, 2025

Energy meets urgency: Solving the data center power problem with solar

For years, data center developers built with confidence that the grid would keep up. That’s no longer the case.

By Jared Burden • Sept. 4, 2025

Solar industry looks to third-party ownership as 25D tax credit winds down

A third-party ownership structure allows residential solar installers to claim the 48E investment tax credit and pass on those savings to the homeowner.

By Diana DiGangi • Sept. 4, 2025