Energy · Solar
Everything we've reported on solar power, panels, storage, the grid, and the people building it out, in one place.
For twenty years, a 30% tax credit made rooftop solar affordable. On January 1, 2026, it vanished overnight, and nothing that follows in the industry makes sense without that one fact.
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home turned thousands of ordinary home batteries and thermostats into a 16-gigawatt virtual power plant, aimed squarely at AI's exploding electricity demand.
In an Arkansas farm county of fewer than 40,000 people, construction just began on the largest solar-plus-storage plant in US history. Its first customer is Google.
Five times in just over a year, the federal government tried to halt America's offshore wind farms. Five times, it lost in court.
In 2026, Washington threw everything it had at renewables. Solar, storage, and wind still built 90 percent of America's new power in the first half of the year.