Government officials and energy developers misjudged the difficulty of building huge clean energy projects in the United States, which has built very few of them.
Category: Energy and Power
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Surging U.S. Oil Production Brings Down Prices and Raises Climate Fears
American oil production is hitting record levels, delivering economic and foreign policy benefits but putting environmental goals further out of reach.
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Laser Fusion Start-Ups Ignite the Quest for Boundless Energy
Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy.
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Heat Pump Installations Slow, Impeding Biden’s Climate Goals
The devices can heat and cool homes more efficiently than furnaces and air-conditioners, but their sales have slowed because of higher interest rates and a slow rollout of federal incentives.
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How Your Child’s School Bus Might Prevent Blackouts
When not driving around, electric buses and other vehicles could help utilities by storing their solar and wind energy and releasing it to meet surges in demand.
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In a Warming World, Clean Energy Stocks Fall While Oil Prospers
The market is focused on making money now and isn’t heeding urgent warnings about climate change, our columnist says.
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China Is Winning in Solar Power, but Its Coal Use Is Raising Alarms
China is building as much clean energy capacity over four years as it had promised to build in 10 years, but continues to add coal-fired power plants.
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Orsted, Offshore Wind Firm, Cancels N.J. Projects
Denmark’s Orsted said it would be forced to write off as much as $5.5 billion as wind developers in the U.S. face wrenching financing costs.
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Siemens Energy in Talks With German Government for Financial Help
Financial problems at the company, a major supplier of wind turbines and power plants, could hamper the energy transition.
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Biden Seeks to Tame Oil Prices if Mideast Conflict Sends Them Soaring
The president has previously drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease price pressures, but that could be more difficult now
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Green Energy Builders Sought $12 Billion More Subsidies. New York Said No.
The developers will have to decide whether to absorb the higher-than-expected costs or break their contracts with the state.
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Green Energy Casts a Shadow Over a Cherished English Landscape
Residents of East Anglia fear that planned power lines for offshore wind projects will blight their rural idyll.