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Modern farming depends on massive amounts of ammonia fertilizer, almost all of it made from fossil gas in enormous chemical plants. These facilities use high heat and pressure to split that gas, mostly made up of methane, into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere, and... Read more

Li-Cycle once seemed like a leader among the startups trying to recycle electric vehicle batteries in the U.S. Now it’s mired in bankruptcy proceedings. The company’s board replaced the CEO and CFO in a decision announced May 1, when Li-Cycle publicized that it was looking for buyers . A potential... Read more

Brooke Canova was nervous after she and her husband bought their Ford F-150 Lightning, the electric version of the enormous, classic pickup truck. She wasn’t worried about running out of charge and being stranded on the road, or whether the truck would have enough oomph to merge onto a speeding... Read more

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . Sixteen states, the District of Columbia, and more than a half dozen environmental groups have alleged in a lawsuit that the…... Read more

The Trump administration has followed through on a threat to use emergency wartime powers to force expensive and polluting coal-fired power plants to stay open — even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, and the grid operators responsible for maintaining reliability all agree it’s... Read more

This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The House voted almost entirely along party lines on Thursday to approve a big budget bill that would send many of the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy provisions to an early... Read more

Powering Rural Futures: Clean energy is creating new jobs in rural America, generating opportunities for people who install solar panels, build wind turbines, weatherize homes, and more. This five-part series from the Rural News Network explores how industry, state governments, and education systems are training…... Read more

See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . Despite challenges in key markets like the U.S., the global shift to battery-powered vehicles is moving along. Last year, more than one in five new cars sold worldwide were either fully electric or a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) ,... Read more

Powering Rural Futures: Clean energy is creating new jobs in rural America, generating opportunities for people who install solar panels, build wind turbines, weatherize homes, and more. This five-part series from the Rural News Network explores how industry, state governments, and education systems are training…... Read more

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the grid operator for most of the state, is increasingly curtailing solar- and wind-powered electricity generation as it balances supply and demand amidst rapid renewables capacity growth.... Read more

At EIA, we publish U.S. electricity net generation from two different perspectives:... Read more

The retail price for regular-grade gasoline in the United States on May 19, the Monday before Memorial Day weekend, averaged $3.17 per gallon (gal), 11% (or 41 cents/gal) lower than the price a year ago. After adjusting for inflation (real terms), average U.S. retail gasoline prices going into Memorial Day... Read more

China has a major role at each stage of the global battery supply chain and dominates interregional trade of minerals. China imported almost 12 million short tons of raw and processed battery minerals, accounting for 44% of interregional trade, and exported almost 11 million short tons of battery materials, packs,... Read more

Colorado State University’s hurricane forecast estimates the 2025 hurricane season will exceed the 1991–2020 average, with an estimate of 17 named storms, compared with a historical average of 14 storms. Meteorologists expect 13–18 named storms, including 3–6 storms with direct impacts on the United States, during this year’s Atlantic hurricane... Read more

We expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 7.5% in 2025 but will remain 2.4% below the 10-year average in our May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Hydropower generation in 2024 fell to 241 billion kilowatthours (BkWh), the lowest since at least 2010; in 2025, we expect generation will be 259.1... Read more

U.S. electric utilities are facing an unprecedented rise in electric demand, driven in part by supply chain issues, the increased development and deployment of AI and data centers, electrification, and shifts in national energy policy. For example, a recent resolution was signed rolling back energy efficiency standards on appliances, which will, in turn,... Read more

When the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) launched its Smart Energy Snapshot Series with the “Alleviating Americans’ Energy Burdens” survey in June 2023, American households were dealing with high energy costs as the economy recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. That survey found that a quarter of all Americans had struggled... Read more

We’re just a few days away from launching the new Energy Central—a faster, smarter, and more connected experience built for our community. 🗓 Launch Date: June 1, 2025 🔐 How to Log In: Visit www.energycentral.com and use your current email. You’ll just need to reset your password the first time... Read more

By Kennedy Maize Offering an implausible rationale, the Trump administration has ordered a private-sector electric utility to delay plans to shut down a large coal-fired power plant in Michigan from the planned closure this Saturday (May 31) until at least August 21. The order last Friday (May 23) from the Department of... Read more

A new solar technology is emerging that doesn't require massive rooftops or sprawling solar farms to work effectively. It is perovskite solar cells, thin enough to slip into the devices you already own, efficient enough to keep them running, and cheap enough to make energy independence accessible to everyone.  The... Read more

Imagine a farmer who sows his fields, nurtures the crops through months of hard work, then — during a particularly good harvest — simply dumps the surplus wheat off a cliff into the sea. How would you describe such behavior? Wasteful? Irrational? Perhaps even absurd? For in all his strategy... Read more

Overview: The role of state Attorneys General When the dust of history finally settles on the Trump administration, it will be shown as one of the most litigated administrations in US history. Among the leaders of that litigation will be state attorneys general. Over the next four years, their efforts... Read more

A❤️415-word🧡under💛2.5-minute💚read All right. Even Donald Trump isn’t likely to start loading cattle on planes destined for El Salvador. I just thought the headline might get people’s attention and I need to broaden my social media footprint to monetize my efforts. I’m almost there, only another 99,999 readers to go. In... Read more

I attended the IEEE Reliability and Resilience Summit May 19-21, 2025, in San Jose, CA. There were more than 300 attendees from more than 150 organizations.  The program can be found at 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society Summit - IEEE Power & Energy Society.The key takeaways were: This was an... Read more

UAE |  Hydrogen Pipeline   A Vision of Hydrogen Pipeline Infrastructure • This report presents a vision of hydrogen pipeline infrastructure across the UAE towards 2040, offering snapshots of the development of a dedicated hydrogen network by 2030, 2035 and 2040. • The proposed hydrogen backbone would interconnect and benefit... Read more

Energy: News and analysis: what's missing? A characteristic that is clearly predominant in portals, magazines and news that deal with energy is to focus on the supply side of the market. More specifically, topics involving the value chain of each source, such as hydroelectric, solar, wind, gas, nuclear, biodiesel, etc.... Read more

Awarded projects The Commission selected the following 15 projects to receive funding for the production of RFNBO (renewable fuel of non-biological origin) hydrogen. These projects must reach financial close within 2.5 years and start production within 5 years of signing their grant agreements. They will only be awarded their fixed... Read more

Unlike regular grants, auctions are market-based instruments for funding innovative low-carbon technologies under the Innovation Fund. The implementation of the Fund’s renewable hydrogen auctions is the domestic pillar of the European Hydrogen Bank (EHB), which establishes a financing and coordination platform to secure cost-efficient and renewable hydrogen across Europe.  ... Read more

When we use the word sustainable as it relates to the power industry, several keys come to mind, keys that are not always understood or shared. For us, sustainability in the power industry is a multifaceted concept that encompasses the development and implementation of energy systems that are environmentally friendly,... Read more