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China's new carbon scheme might look like a vast paper-pushing operation, but it could evolve into a powerful tool to defang China's coal-fired economy.

Warnings about the potential for widespread power failures never spread far beyond the rarefied arena of power plant operators and company executives.

Just under half of Texas’ power generation, or 53.3 gigawatts out of more than 100 gigawatts, was forced offline at one point during the cold snap that swept through Texas this month, the head of [...]

The chairman and four directors of ERCOT, the agency that runs Texas' electricity grid, have resigned after the grid failed catastrophically during a cold snap that swept through the state and [...]

Sunrun, the largest residential solar installer in the U.S., said online search traffic to its website from Texas has increased by 350% this week.

Turbines in colder climates are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas during this week’s historic cold snap, they were not.

A batch of new data from the job search site Indeed, extracted at the request of Forbes.com, shows a substantial uptick in the number of job postings related to wind or solar power starting in [...]

Lawmakers often turn to federally chartered "Independent Market Monitors" to vet the nuclear industry's claims that its plants are money-losing. This is an investigation of how one of these [...]

States in the Southeast and in other regions are still on track to generate the vast majority of their power from coal or gas by 2035. Biden could struggle to corral the votes needed in Congress [...]

Fuel efficiency increases for light-duty vehicles has slowed to only around 1.3% per year in recent years — down from roughly 2% in the handful of years prior, and well below the roughly 3% [...]