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Renewable Energy

Vox's news coverage and updates on the latest in renewables like solar power, wind energy, storage, and batteries.

4 winners and 1 loser in the EPA’s historic move to limit power plant pollution

By Rebecca Leber

The EPA’s long-delayed new rules for power plant pollution, explained

By Rebecca Leber
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How to fix clean energy’s storage problem

By Sam Ellis

A renter’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber

How you can take advantage of tax breaks in the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber

A mountain, a tower, a thermos of molten salt. These are the batteries that could power our renewable future.

By Neel Dhanesha

The end of a battery’s life matters as much as its beginning

By Rebecca Leber

The real reason a heat wave is pushing California’s power grid to its limits

By Neel Dhanesha

4 underrated parts of the Inflation Reduction Act

By Rebecca Leber

Congress failed on climate. What can Biden do now?

By Rebecca Leber

These batteries work from home

By Rebecca Heilweil

There’s a climate solution hiding in our walls 

By Neel Dhanesha

Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells

By Neel Dhanesha

The hydrogen energy dream

By Umair Irfan

How to clear the air in the most polluted cities on Earth

By Siobhan McDonough

Dirty energy pays more than clean energy. That’s a problem.

By Neel Dhanesha

Biden’s offshore wind plan is also a jobs plan

By Neel Dhanesha

The latest data on US climate pollution is very bad

By Rebecca Leber

Is this the beginning of the end of gas stoves and dirty heat in buildings?

By Rebecca Leber

The infrastructure law aims to clean up pollution in your community

By Rebecca Leber

An “attack on American cities” is freezing climate action in its tracks

By Rebecca Leber

One policy that could challenge a century of fossil fuel dominance

By Rebecca Leber

The US power grid isn’t ready for climate change

By Rebecca Heilweil

The fastest way to get more people to buy electric vehicles

By Ella Nilsen

How Biden could actually deliver on his climate goals

By Rebecca Leber

Why every state is vulnerable to a Texas-style power crisis 

By Umair Irfan

2020 ties for the hottest year on record

By Jariel Arvin

The Earth itself could provide carbon-free heat for buildings

By David Roberts

Live results: Nevada renewable energy ballot initiative

By David Roberts

China’s commitment to become carbon neutral by 2060, explained

By Lili Pike

Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil

By Leah C. Stokes

How Germany helped make renewable energy cheap for the rest of the world

By Jillian Weinberger, Amy Drozdowska, and 1 more

California now requires solar panels on all new homes. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

By David Roberts

Solar and wind are coming. And the power sector isn’t ready.

By David Roberts

These huge new wind turbines are a marvel. They’re also the future.

By David Roberts

This book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.

By David Roberts

Texas’s wind and sunlight complement each other exceptionally well. That’s huge for its grid.

By Umair Irfan

Energy transitions are usually slow. Why the clean energy transition might be faster.

By David Roberts

Trump says he’ll cut GM’s subsidies. He can’t do it without Congress.

By Emily Stewart

Clean energy is catching up to natural gas

By David Roberts