A constellation of satellites orbiting 250 miles above Earth’s surface shows how solar and wind have taken off in recent years: Here’s what renewable energy sites looked like eight years ago ...

The United States added 22,332 megawatts of power plant capacity in the first half of this year, and the vast majority of it was utility-scale solar, batteries, and onshore wind. Natural gas was next, ...

A new trend for 2024 was diversification of these purchases to include not just wind and solar but also nuclear. Electric vehicle sales reached 1.5 million in 2024, growing by 6.5%.

Energy-packed plasma waves pump enough energy into streams of solar wind to propel them to their unexpectedly high speeds, observations by two sun-studying spacecraft suggest.

Solar + wind = 20.55% of US generating capacity. Just solar and wind combined now make up more than one-fifth of the US’s total available installed utility-scale generating capacity.

The International Energy Agency’s latest cost data continue to underscore this: Consumers and businesses in countries with almost no solar and wind on average paid 11 U.S. cents for a kilowatt ...

Battery storage is key to scaling up solar and wind power. Here's why. By Ben Tracy July 10, 2024 / 7:49 PM EDT / CBS News ...