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Weaning the developing world off fossil fuels is critically important to prevent the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe. But a major sticking point is making that goal hard to accomplish. Many developing countries lack access to the cheap financing they need to make the switch to clean power, so they continue to burn fossil …

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Many electric utilities are putting up lots of new power lines as they rely more on renewable energy and try to make grids more resilient in bad weather. But a Vermont utility is proposing a very different approach: It wants to install batteries at most homes to make sure its customers never go without electricity. …

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Virtual fencing stands on this common ground: The regional organization Conservation Northwest funded the two base stations the Wilsons use, seeing virtual fencing as a chance to protect a movement corridor for elk, deer, bears, wolves, ground-nesting birds and other resident species. “As soon as we heard about it, we were all over it,” said …

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When VJ Arizpe installed solar panels connected to batteries at his home in Houston last year, he did so to avoid the kind of power outages that had plunged much of Texas into darkness in the middle of a winter storm in February 2021. The new equipment allowed him to sell back extra power to …

In Summer Heat, ‘Artificial Shortages’ in Texas Grid May Have Cost $8 Billion Read More »

Cleaner energy technologies like electric cars and solar panels are spreading so rapidly that the global use of oil, coal and natural gas could peak this decade, but countries will still need to pursue more aggressive measures if they want to limit global warming to relatively safe levels, the world’s leading energy agency said Tuesday. …

Peak Oil Is Near, Energy Agency Says, but Climate Change Is Far From Solved Read More »

For more than two decades, workers at a factory in Perrysburg, Ohio, near Toledo, have been making something that other businesses stopped producing in the United States long ago: solar panels. How the company that owns the factory, First Solar, managed to hang on when most solar panel manufacturing left the United States for China …

Can the U.S. Make Solar Panels? This Company Thinks So. Read More »

This article is part of our special section on the Climate Forward event that will include policy and climate leaders from around the world. Ali Hajimiri thinks there’s a better way to power the planet — one that’s not getting the attention it deserves. The Caltech professor of electrical engineering envisages thousands of solar panels …

Looking to Space in the Race to Decarbonize Read More »