Solar and wind made up nearly 91% of new US power capacity to the end of May 2025, according to the latest FERC data.

Solar hit 9% of US electricity in the first six months of 2025 as wind + solar topped 20% and renewables surged past 27%, ...

Power shortages are coming thanks to wind and solar subsidies. Here’s how they distort energy investment.

The Agriculture Department is curtailing its support for solar and wind energy on farmlands. In a Monday post on the social media platform X, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the ...

New data from a constellation of satellites 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years.

The massive half-day blackout shows otherwise. The nature of solar and wind generation makes grids that rely on them more prone to collapse—an issue that’s particularly expensive to ameliorate.

Ask families in Germany and the UK what happens when more and more supposedly “cheap” solar and wind power is added to the national power mix, and they can tell you by looking at their utility ...

The Block Island Wind Farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Seth Wenig/Associated Press But data centers need power around the clock, something wind and solar power alone can’t provide.

Wind and solar generation eclipsed coal throughout 2024, marking the first time renewable power outperformed coal for a full year. But carbon emissions from electricity still climbed.

What solar? What wind? Texas data centers build their own gas power plants Data center operators are turning away from the grid to build their own power plants.