Inside Climate News · Dan Gearino
Aug 17, 2026 · 5:01 PM PT edition · 20 stories
PV Tech · JP Casey
Trump administration imposes 15% tariff, price floors on solar imports — Several changes made to federal policies that affect the US solar sector under the Trump administration have been met with caution or…
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Utility Dive · Ethan Howland
FERC approves MISO cost recovery plan for transmission projects in PJM region — In its decision affecting Exelon and Duke Energy utilities, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected calls to require the planned…
PV Tech · JP Casey
Arizona Corporation Commission cuts residential solar export rate to 5.5 cents per kWh — The ACC voted last week to cut the export rate—the price at which residential solar consumers can sell electricity back to the grid—by 10%.
PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini
Global solar capacity surpasses 3 terawatts, driven by China expansion — Global solar capacity has surpassed 3 TW, with China driving much of the recent expansion and emerging markets increasingly contributing to…
PV Magazine · Emiliano Bellini
Global energy storage cell shipments reach 468 GWh in first half of 2026, up 95% — In the first half of 2026, global energy storage cell shipments reached 467.84 GWh, up 94.8% year on year, just one data point from…
Grist · Tik Root
Used EV market heats up amid falling new car prices
Carbon Brief · Giuliana Viglione
US's two largest reservoirs hit record-low water levels — The second-largest reservoir in the US reached a record-low water height on Saturday – just days after the country’s largest… The post…
Sightline Climate (CTVC) · CTVC
Micro-reactor companies secure major funding rounds — Massive raises for the smallest nuclear
Wired Science · Ritsuko Kawai
Record El Niño expected to drive global weather, water and economic disruption — This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get.
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PV Tech · Shreeyashi Ojha
India poised to exceed 50GWdc solar installations in 2026, Wood Mackenzie projects — India is set for record solar installations in 2026, while ALMM-II drives cell shortages and higher system prices, according to Wood…
Utility Dive
AI power demand arrives amid tight grid conditions in North America — Why grid readiness may determine the future of the AI economy.
Utility Dive · Amith Kota, Chief Technology Officer, and Lisa Magnuson, Chief Marketing Officer
Grid operators deploy AI and automation to prevent wildfire-caused outages — Another summer of evacuation orders and smoke-filled skies across the country as hundreds of wildfires are burning.
PV Tech · Jonathan Touriño Jacobo
Brookfield, La Caisse complete acquisition of Canadian power producer Boralex — Global investment firm Brookfield Asset Management and investment group La Caisse have completed the acquisition of Canadian independent…
Latitude Media · Maeve Allsup
Land agents quietly assemble geothermal projects ahead of public announcements — There may be gigawatts of projects under development that haven’t been announced — but it isn’t next-gen startups leading the way.
Canary Media · Kathiann M. Kowalski
Ohio regulator set to rule on largest state solar-storage project — Following a key legal deadline last Friday, the stage is now set for the Ohio Power Siting Board to make a final decision about whether the…
Canary Media · Sarah Shemkus
Boston explores water-source heat pumps for large building heating — The waters of Boston Harbor, most famous for the crates of tea hurled rebelliously into them more than 250 years ago, could soon be the…
Inside Climate News · Amy Green
Climate heat exacerbates pesticide risks for farmworkers, research shows — For the nation’s 2.4 million farmworkers, climate change is poised to exacerbate the harms of pesticides, a growing body of research shows.
MIT Technology Review · Climate · James Dinneen