Rural areas reap economic benefits from wind and solar projects, new Midwest study finds

Across the central U.S., more communities are passing ordinances to regulate renewable infrastructure development. A University of Missouri study examines the economic impact of renewable energy in rural areas…

 https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2026-10-05/wind-solar-energy-rural-economy-midwest

A solar industrial complex is turning Republicans into believers - POLITICO

A Georgia solar-panel factory — and the jobs it provides — is making renewable energy fans out of state Republicans...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/georgia-republicans-factories-solar-01066686

 

Ingham County solar project gets greenlight, after trying to bypass local opposition

The 90-megawatt solar facility will span three townships in southern Ingham County...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/transportation-infrastructure/2026-08-28/ingham-county-solar-project-gets-greenlight-after-trying-to-bypass-local-opposition 

Energy Abundance Is Here. Can the U.S. Catch Up? | The Ezra Klein Show

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nDCv5qEEhuA

The Iran war is pushing some countries to move away from oil faster : NPR

Countries are forging a new energy path with renewable and electric vehicle technologies sourced from China. In March, Chinese exports of solar panels were up more than 80% compared to last year, according to energy think tank Ember. China exported more than 2 million electric passenger vehicles between January and May, with nearly half of those exports occurring in April and May, according to a recent analysis note from SIA Energy, an oil and gas consultancy. 

"If China's car industry were handing out a salesman of the year award for 2026, President Trump would be a leading contender," the SIA Energy note says...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5872786/iran-war-evs-solar-energy-transition

 

Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time

Solar supplied 12.8% of US electricity in May even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/11/solar-energy-us-coal

How Denmark’s wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTakSsqgiA

Energy projects are ready to go, they're just lacking your signature.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xqpOVs4k8QQ

 

‘A share in the delight’: the people investing in the UK’s first community-owned solar battery

Oxfordshire’s Ray Valley Solar already generates clean energy for 7,000 homes, and is now crowdfunding storage to marry daylight with evening demand…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/08/a-share-in-the-delight-the-people-investing-in-the-uks-first-community-owned-solar-battery

 

A Michigan County Claiming Solar Farms Are a Health Threat Isn’t Alone — ProPublica

Craig Adair, vice president of development at Open Road Renewables, which has pursued renewable energy projects in several states, has fielded a range of concerns over the years — from how soil could be contaminated to the possibility of electromagnetic fields causing cancer. 

“Those questions, in just about every case, have an answer,” Adair said. “There is rigorous academic study, and there are examples of projects that have been operating.”…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county

Clean energy generation exceeded rise in global electricity demand in 2025

Output from solar farms rose by a third while electricity from fossil fuels fell, research from thinktank reveals…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/clean-energy-generation-exceeded-rise-global-electricity-demand-2025

 

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather…

 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08/britain-breaks-solar-energy-record-twice-uk-biggest-solar-farm-springwell-approval

 

Solar and EVs help countries weather energy crisis with Iran war : NPR

"The widespread adoption of solar and batteries kind of serves as a hedge or a protection sort of against these price shocks that the fossil fuel markets are very vulnerable to globally," she says. 

Some countries in Latin America and Africa are still deciding between investing in traditional fossil fuel infrastructure or renewable energy and batteries. The growing energy crisis fueled by the war makes the stakes more clear, Bond says. " Once you've got your solar panel, there's no cost for the sun," he says. "But once you've got your gas fire power station, you have to pay every day for the gas that you burn in it."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/nx-s1-5732984/energy-iran-war-solar-pakistan-crisis-renewable-evs

 

Utilities are raising concerns about plug-in solar panels : NPR

German utilities expressed many of the same concerns nearly a decade ago when plug-in solar started to become popular in Germany. But with more than a million systems installed, no safety incidents have been reported for customers who used the panels as instructed, according to a research paper funded by the U.S. Department of Energy...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/12/nx-s1-5737287/solar-panels-utilities-energy-saving 

 

Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it. - POLITICO

Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/08/gop-senator-mocked-green-energy-crap-his-home-runs-on-it-00791293 

 

The Culture Wars Are Coming for Your Electricity – Mother Jones

Utah Republicans celebrated last week when PacifiCorp, one of the largest utilities in the West, announced it would stop serving customers in Washington state. PacifiCorp mainly operates in Utah, but also in Wyoming and Idaho—and, to the chagrin of some Utah legislators, blue states like California and Oregon. Utah legislators had previously pressured to break their utility's ties with states with more aggressive climate policies. … 

"We want a divorce from the three states that don't look like Utah," said Mike Schultz, Utah's Republican House Speaker. "This is the first step forward."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/energy-fossil-fuel-wind-solar-renewables-political-identity-woke-electricty-bills/

Ohio Lawmakers Consider Bill That Would Essentially Ban Solar and Wind Projects – Mother Jones

SB 294 ​"will destroy competition by declaring renewable energy unreliable, and it's picking winners and losers."…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/ohio-lsb294-bill-ban-solar-wind-alec-projects/ 

 

What Solar’s 2025 Breakthroughs Mean for 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FffKMMnisu4

 

Utah Leaders Hinder Solar Efforts Despite Need for More Energy — ProPublica

Cox signed a pair of bills passed this year that will make it more difficult and expensive to develop and produce solar energy in Utah by ending solar development tax credits and imposing a hefty new tax on solar generation. A third bill aimed at limiting solar development on farmland narrowly missed the deadline for passage but is expected to return next year...

https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox 

 

Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them - POLITICO

The law was a double-whammy for the solar industry. It speeds up the phase-out of both the rooftop solar subsidy tapped by Calvert, Curtis and Massie as well as another credit relied on by project developers to cut the price of leased panels. At the same time, it boosted an oil subsidy created in the early 1900s and included other provisions to increase the production of fossil fuels that are primarily responsible for global warming. 

"There has been a push, as you know, for a long while to get rid of those tax credits," said Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose Capitol Hill rowhouse roof has been layered with solar panels for about a decade. "And then when you had Trump come into office, he made it very clear that this was not something that he was going to continue supporting."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/meet-republicans-who-killed-solar-subsidies-after-using-them-00631344