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2 days ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

Domestic battery manufacturing and deployments have been growing fast — but Trump’s tariff wars and looming budget cuts threaten to derail progress. Companies making and deploying lithium-ion batteries in the U.S. recently gathered in Washington, D.C., to ask the federal government for the policy support they say they need.

5 days ago | canarymedia.com | Kathryn Krawczyk

Democrat-led states are suing the Trump administration to keep wind farm and EV charger construction rolling. This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has antagonized the clean energy industry, putting crucial federal funding on ice, rolling back key regulations, and even coming after state climate laws.

6 days ago | canarymedia.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy

Tesla is still by far the biggest name in U.S. electric vehicles, but its sales are slipping amid competition and blowback to Elon Musk’s political antics. See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the week” column. For years, Tesla has been the defining EV brand in not only the U.S. but the world. That’s changing. The company’s iron grip on the U.S. EV sector began to loosen back in 2023 as competition picked up.

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

The bill would deal another blow to California’s ailing rooftop solar sector — and hardly move the needle on its stated purpose of reducing utility costs. California lawmakers are considering a bill that would renege on decades of commitments to customers who’ve installed solar panels on their homes — all to shrink only a tiny fraction of the utility costs that are driving electricity rates through the roof.

1 week ago | canarymedia.com | Jeff St. John

Prisma Photonics uses preexisting fiber-optic cables to detect disruptions across thousands of miles of high-voltage transmission lines. Lots of costly and dangerous things can go wrong with high-voltage transmission lines. Strong winds or equipment failures can cause individual lines on a tower to contact one another and short-circuit, or even break entirely. Lines can sag hazardously near trees or the ground, either due to overheating or being caked in ice.