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In a suburb about an hour north of New York City, a former dairy farm is now producing solar energy. Some of the people who will benefit live nearby, while others are dozens of miles away in Yonkers, which borders the Bronx, or in Downtown Brooklyn. The 20-acre farm, in Yorktown, N.Y., is part of …

Community Solar Projects Make Renewable Energy More Accessible, and Trump May End Them Read More »

The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis, to commit to the biggest burst of spending on electric-power generation in Africa’s history. The World Bank, African Development Bank and others are pledging at least $35 billion to expand electricity across a continent where …

$35 Billion Loan Project, Led by the World Bank, Aims to Expand Electricity in Africa Read More »

President Trump’s repudiation of renewable-energy technologies stands to make the United States an outlier in the world. Many of its large-economy peers are choosing a different path. Even as coal, oil and gas still power the global economy, and more fossil fuels are burned year after year, the movement globally is toward heavy investment in …

Trump’s Retreat From Clean Energy Puts the U.S. Out of Step With the World Read More »

In its heyday in the mid-20th century, the steel mill in Weirton, W.Va., employed 13,000 people and offered workers a relatively stable blue-collar life. In 2003, Weirton Steel filed for bankruptcy. Shops downtown boarded up their windows, and young people moved away from the declining Appalachian town. Weirton’s prospects were turning around in May 2023 …

Opinion | China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy Read More »

President Trump is moving to restructure the nation’s energy future to block any transition away from fossil fuels. And he is testing the boundaries of presidential power to do it. The orders that Mr. Trump signed on Monday would make it easier and cheaper for companies to produce oil and gas and for the government …

Trump Wants to Unleash Energy, as Long as It’s Not Wind or Solar Read More »

A large fire erupted on Thursday at the Moss Landing battery plant, south of San Jose, Calif., closing Highway 1 and prompting local the authorities to issue evacuation orders for around 2,000 residents. The plant, owned by Vistra Energy, is one of the largest battery storage sites in the world and holds tens of thousands …

Fire Breaks Out at a Huge Battery Site in California Read More »