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1 day ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
These two clean energy sources are growing quickly around the world. Here are the 10 countries that rely on them the most. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. Wind and solar are on the rise worldwide — here are the 10 countries that rely on the clean-energy sources most for their electricity. All of these countries used wind and solar to produce at least one-third of their electricity in 2024, according to a new report from the Energy Institute.
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1 week ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
Congressional Republicans are poised to eliminate a tax credit that makes rooftop solar cheaper for homeowners, the latest in a string of blows to the sector. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. Rooftop solar is already struggling in the U.S. — but the budget bill passed by House Republicans last month would send the sector into a tailspin.
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2 weeks ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
As written, the “Big Beautiful Bill” would cast uncertainty over a staggering amount of solar, battery, and wind projects, just as energy demand is surging. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. Amid rising power bills and surging energy demand, Republicans in Congress are set to undermine the country’s primary source of new electricity — clean energy.
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3 weeks ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
The state produces more clean energy than its grid can handle, forcing it to curtail the extra wind and solar power it can’t use. There are ways to fix that. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. California is throwing away a lot of solar power.
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4 weeks ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
None of the new steel and ironmaking capacity planned for the U.S. is coal-fired — but old, dirty units aren’t going anywhere, either. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. The future of steel and ironmaking in the U.S. is poised to get cleaner — so long as the country can let go of the industry’s dirty past.
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1 month ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
The global outlook is solid for EV and plug-in hybrid adoption, even as Trump’s trade and policy plans threaten to stifle growth in the U.S. 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), per a new International Energy Agency report.
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1 month ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
The House Republicans’ budget proposal would gut Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. Two of the GOP’s favorite energy sources could suffer. This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The House Ways and Means budget proposal would gut the Inflation Reduction Act and slow the rollout of solar, wind, and storage. It’d crimp EV adoption and crush clean-energy manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The House Ways and Means budget proposal would gut the Inflation Reduction Act and slow the rollout of solar, wind, and storage. It’d crimp EV adoption and crush clean-energy manufacturing. Energy costs and carbon emissions would rise. Green hydrogen would remain forever a whisper in the wind, even after so much screaming about the arcane rules governing its incentives.
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1 month ago | 
canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
The Inflation Reduction Act unleashed a rush of investment in Republican-represented districts. Now, the GOP is proposing to effectively repeal the law. See more from Canary Media’s “Chart of the week” column. House Republicans introduced legislation on Monday that would gut the Inflation Reduction Act.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy
See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column. House Republicans introduced legislation on Monday that would gut the Inflation Reduction Act. If the proposed rules become law, it will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions — and threaten hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of economic development in regions represented in Congress by Republicans.
