wind energy

Cheap solar and wind can replace imports of expensive and possibly unreliable fossil gas as well as imports of expensive and polluting black coal

Climate Crisis

Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time

Juan Cole

It is another clear piece of proof that humanity can get to carbon neutral by 2050 if it wants to.

Climate Crisis

Despite Trump, Renewable Energy keeps Surging

Yale Climate Connections

Solar and wind adoption are experiencing the sharp upward trajectory that other successful new technologies, experienced

Batteries

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

The Conversation

Replace fossil fuels with clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, electric vehicles and batteries. We are well on our way

China

As Trump commits Climate Suicide with Dirty Energy, China Leads world in Renewables, EVs

Tom Engelhardt

China installed more wind turbines and solar panels than any other country, indeed more than the rest of the planet combined

Climate Crisis

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C.

Juan Cole

The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025

Batteries

California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US Energy Information Agency reports that California’s fossil gas use is steadily declining. In the first half of 2025, fossil gas use was down a whopping 18% compared with the same period in 2020, to 45.5 billion kilowatt hours (BKWh). Even just in 2025, California reduced fossil gas usage […]

Donald Trump

Ozymandias on the Potomac: Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline

Alfred W. McCoy

( Tomdispatch.com ) – At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain. In Shelly’s stanzas, a traveler in Egypt comes across the ruins of a once-monumental statue, […]

Climate Crisis

India Plans 2.45 Gig Solar Park + 5 GWh Battery in Rajasthan, so why drag its Feet at COP30?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The paradox of India’s unhelpful stance at COP30, which has gone into extra innings over the obstacles the “like-minded developing countries” have placed in the way of a renewed pledge to transition away from fossil fuels, lies in New Delhi’s impressive investments in renewables. That is, even the right wing […]