Donate

Donate

Clean energy journalism for a cooler tomorrow

Solar
Wind
Batteries
Electrification
U.S. regions
Northeast

Southeast

Midwest

West
Newsletters

Subscribe to Canary Media newsletters

You selected 1 newsletters
Events

Next Upcoming

Climate Night Live at Climate Week NYC

We're kicking off Climate Week NYC with an evening of connection and clean energy entertainment.

By Canary Media

September 22, 2025

Rumi

RSVP

Canary Media x Volts at Climate Week NYC

Join Canary Media and Volts’ David Roberts for a live double podcast with Carlos Araque of Quaise Energy and Doreen Harris of NYSERDA.

By Canary Media

September 24, 2025

IndieBio NYC

Register

Browse all
White papers

Data Center Impacts in the West: Policy Solutions for Water and Energy Use

Optimizing Energy Efficiency Programs for Financially Constrained Households

Scaling Technological Greenhouse Gas Removal: A Global Roadmap to 2050

Breaking Barriers in Carbon Dioxide Removal with Electrochemistry

Browse all

Solar
Wind
Batteries
Electrification
View All Topics
- Northeast
- Southeast
- Midwest
- West
Newsletters
Events
White papers
Canary Media
- About
- Our team
- Careers
- Donate
- Supporters
- Sponsorships

Energy storage

Clean energy

The US smashed clean energy records last year. Can it keep up the pace?

Developers plan to add even more solar, wind, and battery storage capacity in 2025, but the Trump administration isn't making that easy.

By Akielly Hu . 12 February 2025
Energy storage

Kore Power has a new plan after canceling $1.2B battery plant in Arizona

Amid political chaos, the company ditched long-simmering efforts to build a factory from scratch. Now, it’s hunting for an existing plant where it can set up shop.

By Julian Spector . 7 February 2025
Energy storage

Why we don't need to worry too much about the latest grid battery fire

Safety standards and industry practices have improved considerably since construction of the Moss Landing battery plant that recently burned up in California.

By Julian Spector . 27 January 2025
Clean energy

Chart: The biggest clean energy projects built in the US last year

We’re living in the era of the clean energy megaproject. Here are the 25 biggest solar, wind, and battery-storage installations completed in the U.S. in 2024.

By Dan McCarthy . 24 January 2025
Solar

Oregon to host nation’s largest solar-plus-storage installation

Massive projects like Sunstone Solar, which will extend across nearly 9,500 acres and have 1,200 MW of solar, are becoming more and more common.

By Akielly Hu . 21 January 2025
Batteries

Moss Landing, the world’s biggest grid battery, caught fire again

Vistra’s flagship energy-storage project in California turned into a towering inferno, forcing evacuations and raising fresh concerns about large battery installations.

By Julian Spector . 17 January 2025
Virtual power plants

Sonnen, Solrite to offer free batteries and solar to Texas homeowners

The catch: The companies will own and use the equipment to create a virtual power plant that they are betting will pay off installation costs.

By Jeff St. John . 16 January 2025
Energy storage

Massive underground air-battery project lands $1.76B DOE award

Hydrostor wants to use the conditional loan guarantee to store up to 4,000 megawatt-hours of energy in caverns in Kern County, California.

By Jeff St. John . 13 January 2025
Batteries

2024 was a fantastic year for energy storage

Batteries reshaped the power grid in California and Texas, showing the rest of the country what's possible when the tech is allowed to flourish.

By Julian Spector . 23 December 2024
Batteries

Duke Energy to knock down coal plant and build its biggest battery yet

Large grid batteries are finally coming to North Carolina, the nation’s fourth largest solar power producer.

By Julian Spector . 3 December 2024

1
2
3
4
5
… 24

Sponsored