Tag: Solar Energy

The worldâs least efficient coal plants need to be phased out by 2030, and any remaining plants in use by 2040 have to be equipped with carbon capture technology, the International Energy Agency said.

Energy and Environment

Demise of coal in rich countries brings global carbon emissions to a stall

Josh Siegel · February 11, 2020 2:51 pm

High-resolution photos show detailed surface of the sun

Anthony Leonardi · January 30, 2020 8:50 pm

In this June 4, 2013 file photo, Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., asks a question during a the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The upstate New York congressman said he and his family were threatened after a dead animal and a brick bearing a family memberâs name were found at his home on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020.

Energy and Environment

House Republican proposes using tax code to combat climate change

Josh Siegel · January 8, 2020 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Green New Dealers, meet the ghost of Solyndra

David Freddoso · January 7, 2020 9:07 pm

Former President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M.

Energy and Environment

The 2010s: When energy ‘scarcity’ became ‘abundance’

Josh Siegel · December 28, 2019 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Sunset the solar tax credit

Ryan Ellis · November 1, 2019 3:52 pm

Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Democrats want to build big renewable power lines. How one project failed

Josh Siegel · October 24, 2019 11:00 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019 file photo, portable power generators and light stands help to illuminate a gas station, though the station's gas pumps were not working in Penn Valley, Calif. PG&E says it could cut off power to a large swath of Northern California later this week to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires during hot, windy weather. The utility says power could be shut off in 30 counties in central and Northern California starting Wednesday, Oct. 9, when hot weather and strong winds are forecast, and through Thursday. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

PG&E blackout is latest leverage in fight over California’s energy mix

Abby Smith · October 18, 2019 3:00 am

Silhouette of young male engineer holding laptop computer planning and working for the energy industry and standing beside a wind turbines farm power station.

Don’t be so quick to write off natural gas

William F. Shughart II · August 28, 2019 3:12 pm

In this July 15, 1979, file photo, college student Chuck McManis watches President Jimmy Carter's nationally televised energy speech, which became known as the "malaise" speech, from a service station in Los Angeles, as a gas station attendant fills up a customer's car.

Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter’s malignant ‘malaise’ speech

Quin Hillyer · July 15, 2019 7:22 pm

Ninth Congressional district Democratic candidate answers a question during a news conference in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

House candidate’s nonprofit group pushed policies that aided his business interests while raising energy bills

Alana Goodman · July 3, 2019 4:00 am

In this photo taken Monday, May 7, 2018, solar panels are seen on the rooftop on a home in a new housing project in Sacramento, Calif. The California Energy Commission will take up a proposal, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 , to require solar panels on new residential homes and low-rise apartment buildings up to three starting in 2020.

Before hiring minorities, the rooftop solar industry needs to stop scamming minorities

Julianne Malveaux · June 14, 2019 4:05 am