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Want to lower 'soft costs' of home solar, battery and EV charging? Meter socket adapters like Tesla's Backup Switch and ConnectDER's IslandDER can save big on labor and equipment. Now, the trick is getting more utilities to let installers to use them: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis... #energysky

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Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Capacity prices hit new record highs in PJM, the country’s biggest power market, as data center growth and inadequate generation interconnection combine to drive costs — and rising political backlash — for 65 million people from Virginia to Chicago: www.canarymedia.com/articles/dat... #energysky

TransAlta’s Centralia coal-fired Unit 2 was meant to close at month’s end and convert to burn gas by 2028. DOE’s must-run order — the latest in the Trump admin's campaign to force dirty, costly fossil fueled generators online — complicates that plan. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky

Relentless sociopathy can make you rich. But it can't get you into heaven. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/m...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

73% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to govt data. Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.” As ICE terrorizes cities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of Trump's major donors are private prison corporations.

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Great story by @alisontakemura.bsky.social of @canarymedia.com about a coal town building a #thermalenergynetwork that will use #geothermal energy to deliver clean heat and cooling to new office park. #EnergySky #cleanenergyeconomy www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

Fossil-fuel extraction massively outweighs critical mineral mining needs (quite literally) – We dig up tens of billions of tonnes of stuff every year to produce coal, oil & gas – Raw-material extraction for critical minerals would be a fraction of that, even under net-zero 1/2

Flexible interconnection works! Here's how: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...

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For more background on Raya Power and its portable solar + storage system, read my Q&A with co-founder Meghan Wood from earlier this year: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/bringing-sma... 🔌💡

A recap of building decarbonization market and policy developments in 2025 from @buildingdecarb.org and @sunstonestrategies.bsky.social: buildingdecarb.org/2025-wrapped... 🔌💡

"A January 2025 study by a Brown University research group placed Stevenson at the center of the network of activists and political operators driving America’s anti–offshore wind movement." www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... by @fieseler.bsky.social 🔌💡

As a major source of new jobs, the clean energy industry represents an innovative and vital sector of the U.S. workforce whose growth is outpacing overall employment growth despite overall economic slowdown and recessionary conditions in parts of the U.S. #EnergySky www.wri.org/insights/cle...

Looking for a compact solar-battery combo system that connects directly to key home appliances and cuts out costly and time-consuming permits? Startup Raya Power says its system, now being tested in Puerto Rico and California, could fit the bill: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

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Wow - @fieseler.bsky.social's magnum opus on this offshore wind foe's evolution into a central player in the falsehood-fueled movement undermining a key source of reliable clean energy is a must-read! (It's also a great beach read... ;-) www.canarymedia.com/articles/off... #energysky

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Speaking as a guy who spent 20 years building industrial cogeneration… plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Behind the fence clean energy ain’t new, nor are the utility objections. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Also, in Connecticut www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... Speaking of geothermal (though this is a geo network and not direct deep geothermal heat).

BYONCE may be coming to Georgia. That’s BYONCE as in Bring Your Own New Clean Energy — a very catchy acronym for a concept Georgia Power and regulators are working into their program to get data centers online faster.

Colorado doing more to crack down on gas utilities than California. Now requiring them to cut climate pollution 41% below 2015 levels by 2035: www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... via @alisontakemura.bsky.social

The Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign is far from over, especially as Trump wages a counteroffensive. @mikegrunwald.bsky.social recaps a decade of courtroom fights that have sent coal into a downward spiral.

This week in clean energy news: 🥶 Winter heating assistance is finally trickling out 🤝 Gas pipelines find unlikely allies in the Northeast ⛽ Trump targets Biden-era fuel economy rules Catch up here:

Two small nuclear projects are getting $400 million each from the Trump administration — but that’ll only cover a sliver of their costs.

Which country got the largest share of its electricity from solar last year? Hint: It’s not a sunny island nation.

FirstEnergy wants its Ohio utilities to have more time to restore power after outages, even though customers have been paying for substantial grid-hardening upgrades.

FirstEnergy is facing a $250 million penalty for its role in Ohio’s power plant bailout scandal. Advocates are hoping for further consequences.

Georgia Power and state utility regulators are circling in on a plan to get data centers online faster, without the need for massive new gas plants.

Back in 2017, 35 GW of new energy storage deployment by 2025 was a lot to aim for. The U.S. still made it happen.

The DOE is betting $800 million that these two projects will win the small modular reactor race.

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Could data centers contract their own solar and battery projects? Georgia Power and corporate energy buyers' trade group CEBA are close to a plan to do that. But a key thing is missing—capacity values for that clean power to supplant costly gas plants: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

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The Connecticut Green Bank goes beyond loans and grants to directly develop and own solar projects for towns and schools. Backers say it's a good way to grow clean energy and combat rising energy costs — and they want more states to follow its lead: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... #energysky

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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up. Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript

The Trump administration has forced the aging, costly polluting J.H. Campbell coal plant in Michigan to stay running for another 90-day stretch, citing an energy ​“emergency” that state utility regulators and regional grid operators say does not exist: www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... #energysky