"A new report by Oxford-based Aurora Energy Research detailed how adding battery storage to a site could improve data centers’ power quality, provide flexibility and reduce transmission congestion, while offering an opportunity to reduce emissions." 🔋 👏

"...we’ll need to generate enough new electricity in the next five years to power half of all U.S. homes. That herculean task will require laying thousands of miles of new gas pipelines, building transmission lines and substations, and constructing new generation facilities across the country." ⚡🚨

"Each year, an estimated 80 million U.S. utility customers have trouble affording their monthly heat and electricity bills....Rural utility customers face unique challenges around access to fuel and affordability programs, and they often live in older, less energy-efficient homes..." ⚠️ 🔌

"The world is clamoring for more electrons. It’s getting them from solar and wind. Between January and September, the two clean-energy sources grew fast enough to more than offset all new demand worldwide, according to data from energy research firm Ember." ☀️ ⚡

"A House subcommittee on Wednesday advanced several pieces of legislation to weaken energy efficiency programs, cancel standards for manufactured homes and eliminate some home rebates, building codes and job training programs." ‼️ ⚡

"The Department of Energy has restructured...[shifting] away from renewable energy and toward both fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The news came with no fanfare beyond a statement about the changes being necessary to better execute the Trump administration’s “American energy dominance” agenda." ⚠️ 💼

"Sales of gas-only vehicles are down by 31% from their peak, while electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly worldwide, largely due to China." ⛽ ⚡ 🇨🇳 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Thanks to Renew Missouri, clean energy options will be available for use with the incoming Kansas City data center. We remain hopeful that the developers, along with others across the nation, will see the advantage in opting to use these cleaner, cheaper sources of energy to the benefit of all ☀️ 🔌

"According to a report out this week from PPA marketplace LevelTen Energy, 76% of solar projects and 86% of wind projects slated to come online by the end of 2028 are already safe-harbored. Those projects account for around 33 gigawatts of capacity eligible for tax credits." ☀️ ✅

"Over the past 10 years, global renewable energy investment has exceeded a cumulative $4 trillion, but less than 1% of this investment has reached low-income markets." 📈 🌬️ 💸 about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

"A new emissions gap report released by the United Nations Environment Programme suggests that a decade of global climate policy under the Paris Agreement has reduced the projected maximum global warming for this century to less than 3 degrees Celsius for the first time." 📉 ☀️

"Over the next five years, the country will build nearly 67 gigawatts’ worth of new utility-scale batteries, per data from research firm BloombergNEF, enough to send almost 284 gigawatt-hours of stored-up electricity back to the grid." 🔋 ⚡

"Annual energy investment needs to increase by 30% from current levels to get the world onto a 2 °C pathway. A decade on and the world is still way off track to meet the Paris Agreement goals. No major economy is on track to meet its targets and the clock is ticking." ⚠️ 🚨

"The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major disasters in the US...according to a climate non-profit that has resurrected work axed by Donald Trump’s administration that tracked the biggest disasters." 🚨 ⚠️

This clean energy project tracker logs new clean economy projects, expansions, and production announced across America by congressional district and amount invested ♻️ ⚡ e2.org/clean-econom...

"Regulators are doing away with controversial regulations that required banks to plan for losses in the event of climate-related events, according to an announcement Thursday." 🚨 ⚠️

"Utilities in the United States are set to invest nearly as much between now and 2029 as they did in the entire previous decade. ...Between 2025 and 2029, the capital expenditures are likely to hit $1.1 trillion, nearly matching the combined $1.3 trillion spent from 2015 to 2024." ⚡ 💰

According to a new report by global risk firm, DNV, "data centers built for AI may demand 10 times more power over the next five years," with major implications for U.S. electricity infrastructure.

"States that embrace renewable energy are far more likely to save money for electricity consumers than those relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power...findings that undermine one of the Trump administration’s main justifications for its aggressive rollback of federal clean energy policies." ☀️ ♻️

"President Donald Trump’s crusade to uproot the Biden administration’s big-spending climate programs has left a surprising survivor — the $5 billion effort to install electric car chargers from coast to coast." 🚗 ⚡

"The Energy Department said Wednesday night it's terminating $7.56 billion worth of financial awards that support 223 projects funded via several of its clean-energy offices." 🚨 ⚠️ www.axios.com/2025/10/02/d...

"The thousands of DOE employees who exited the federal service amid the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s sweep of the agency has resulted in the largest staffing drop-off in the agency’s history..." 🚨

"The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, on Wednesday announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while dodging questions about affordability and grid reliability and claiming international climate policy has not lowered emissions."

"It won't rescue the renewables industry, but at least it's something. The Federal Reserve announced [September 17] that it will cut the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points, bringing it down to between 4% and 4.25%." ☀️ 💰

"St. Louis city officials announced plans Thursday to regulate data center projects and will not move forward with a moratorium proposed last week."

Energy experts at EnergySage debunk some of the most prevalent clean energy myths out there in this article on The Cool Down ☀️

A narrowly-passed fiscal 2026 spending bill "shows it won't be easy" to garner widespread support for Trump's energy agenda.

"President Donald Trump has put energy front and center during his second term. On his first day in office alone, he froze spending under the Inflation Reduction Act, took a wrecking ball to offshore wind, and declared an ​“energy emergency,” citing affordability and grid reliability issues." 🚨 ⚠️

"Several planned projects would have brought solar to communities in the Midwest and Great Plains for the first time. Others would have expanded existing efforts. Now, the projects are on hold after the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly terminated $7 billion in funding." 🚨 ☀️

"A preliminary investigation by St. Louis County firefighters points to natural gas as the likely cause of the explosion that ripped through a north St. Louis County neighborhood on Monday."

"The Trump administration has set up yet another roadblock for wind and solar power in the U.S. — one that will make it harder for clean-energy developers to qualify for federal tax credits before they expire next summer." ☀️ 🚨

"Managed charging programs can turn flexible electric vehicle loads into a grid resource capable of generating $30 billion in annual utility savings, according to research from ev.energy, a managed charging provider in the United States, and The Brattle Group." 🚗 🤩 💵

A report release from the EIA reveals that the average utility bill rose to $144 in 2024. ⚡📈

"Aug 14 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is expected as soon as Monday to take another step toward curbing the growth of renewable energy in the United States by making it harder for companies to claim federal tax subsidies for wind and solar energy." 🚨 ⚠️

"The pace of new capacity of U.S. solar, wind and battery systems has slowed nationally and in key states this year, hurting clean energy sector sentiment. But climate trackers can take heart from the continued growth outside Texas and California." ☀️ 🔋 🍃

"Utility commissions across the nation are “broken” and must be reformed to stop rising electric costs, a coalition of lawmakers, consumer and environmental advocates said Tuesday during a joint press conference." 🔌 ⚠️

"Adding about 11 GW of batteries in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator footprint could save about $27 billion in system costs by 2035, according to a study prepared for the American Clean Power Association." 😀🔋

BloombergNEF's Michael Liebreich makes the case the clean energy transition is not yet lost: "...rumors of the death of the [clean energy] transition are greatly exaggerated." ⚡ ♻️

Plans are in the works to build America's first two new aluminum plants in half a century: "For the economics to pencil out [their power] will need to be produced from carbon-free sources, like wind or solar, for the aluminum they produce to be more competitive on the global market..." ⚡ 🔌

"Investor-owned U.S. electric utilities will invest more than $1.1 trillion in the 2025-2029 period, marking a rapid increase in capital expenditures as the sector rushes to meet growing power demand, according to a Wednesday report from the Edison Electric Institute." ⚡ ⚠️

The application window for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), was abruptly closed at the last minute before its opening on July 1st. This comes after months of setbacks for the long-standing program, which provides avenues to vital income for farmers across the United States. 🧑‍🌾

It took Jerry Young, 92, and his wife, Dorothy, 88, ten years to build their exceptionally energy-efficient home in Collinsville, MO. 🏡 🍃 ⚡ The total cost of their 2024 electricity bill? $105. 😱

Data center project projections speculate that the U.S. will need to add up to 100 GW of power to its grid by 2030 in order to meet rising energy demand. However, some experts say these projections overshoot actual building capacity, and ratepayers will pay for it.

The passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" slashed clean energy tax credits for homeowners. However, they are not gone yet- read below to see how you can still take advantage of these tax credits before they are gone. 🏡 🚗 ⚡

"The recently passed Republican megabill ends the tax credits for wind and solar projects unless solar or wind farms start producing electricity by 2028 — or unless they start construction in the next year."

"...Missouri attorney general, Andrew Bailey, a Republican, opened an investigation into Grain Belt Express and requested that the state’s Public Service Commission reconsider its approval." ⚠️ 🔌

"Ameren Missouri... recently filed an application with the MO [PSC] to construct an 800-MW simple-cycle natural gas energy center and a large-scale battery storage facility in Jefferson County, Mo... which will be designed to efficiently meet increased energy demands... ensuring grid resiliency..."

Trump's recently-passed budget bill "includes provisions to prevent states from enacting regulations on artificial intelligence. Such untamed growth in AI will take a heavy toll upon the world’s dangerously overheating climate, experts have warned." ⚠️ 🚨

"Growth in Columbia Water and Light rooftop solar installations has been steadily increasing... Last year alone saw a growth of 10% in the number of customers adopting this technology. This positive consumer acceptance of rooftop solar is hard to ignore." ☀️ 🏡 💵

"Renewable power...is the least expensive and quickest power generation source to deploy in the United States, even without government subsidies..." says Lazard, a global financial services firm. The cost to build new gas-fired power plants, meanwhile, has hit a 10-year high..." ♻️ 👏