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• How Massachusetts is trying to turn EVs into grid batteries March 24, 2025
  The batteries inside electric vehicles can do a lot more than power a car. They can back up homes, schools, and businesses during power outages. They can soak up grid power when it’s plentiful and cheap and send it back when it’s scarce and costly. And they could eventually provide enough reliable power to allow…
• Texas Senate passes bill to upend energy market, spur gas over renewables March 24, 2025
  Texas legislators have a new plan for their state’s famously competitive energy market, and it looks a lot like the government picking winners and losers. On Wednesday, the Texas Senate passed SB 388 , which would set a target for 50% of new power plant capacity to be “sourced from dispatchable generation other than…
• Debunking the myth of clean energy’s 'cost problems' March 21, 2025
  This analysis and news roundup comes from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Speaking to fossil fuel executives and other energy leaders at the CERAWeek conference last week, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright made a bold claim. “Everywhere wind and solar penetration have increased…
• Cutting clean energy won't lower New England utility bills, advocates say March 21, 2025
  A growing chorus of New England state officials — and not just Republicans — is calling for cuts to clean energy programs in an attempt to rein in high electric bills. These efforts are underway everywhere from Maine, where legislators are trying to repeal incentives for rooftop and community solar , to deep-blue…
• Chart: These states get more power from clean energy than coal March 21, 2025
  See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . The U.S. hit a major energy-transition milestone last year: For the first time ever, it produced more electricity from wind and solar than from coal. Over half of U.S. states now get more power from breeze-blown turbines and sun-soaked photovoltaic panels…
• The Trump climate story is boring — except this part March 20, 2025
  Canary Media’s " Eating the Earth " column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in. As a journalist who spent three decades reporting for mainstream media outlets — and specifically as a climate journalist who’s spent the last six years researching the impacts of the food system…
• Gutting clean energy incentives would drive up electric bills March 20, 2025
  The Trump administration insists that renewables are making energy more expensive and that more fossil-fueled power will reduce utility bills. But those claims are false — and if congressional Republicans succeed in repealing key tax credits supporting the growth of clean energy, Americans will suffer the…
• Indiana utilities want ratepayers to fork out for small nuclear reactors March 19, 2025
  Indiana legislators are considering multiple bills to promote small modular nuclear reactors, including a controversial provision that would let utilities charge ratepayers for projects that may never be built. Such allowances, referred to as “cost trackers,” are widely used by utilities to recover early-stage…
• Three years into the Ukraine war, is Europe’s energy system cleaner? March 19, 2025
  When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, it ignited an energy crisis that threatened to upend Europe. The continent relied on Russia for much of its gas supply for electricity and heating. Suddenly, European consumers faced soaring fuel prices, which rewarded Russia for the very chaos it had caused. European…
• Vermont’s clean energy transition faces unprecedented political threat March 18, 2025
  Vermont clean energy advocates are playing defense this year in Montpelier. The Green Mountain State has long been a leader on clean energy, generating nearly all of its electricity from renewable sources since 2015. A shift in state and national politics, however, has left supporters in the Legislature focused on…