First Solar, a leading U.S. solar panel manufacturer, said on Tuesday that an audit had found that migrant workers in its operations in Malaysia were victims of forced labor.The independent […]
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Back to news homeOffshore Wind Runs Into Rising Costs and Delays
Vattenfall, a Swedish energy company, has for years been doing preliminary work for what would be one of the world’s largest offshore wind complexes, in the North Sea off eastern […]
BP Reports Sharply Lower Earnings as Oil Prices Slide
Behind the NumbersThe sharp drop was largely due to lower prices for the oil and natural gas that the company produces and sells. Energy prices soared in the previous spring […]
A New Job for Electric Vehicles: Powering Homes During Blackouts
In early March, strong winds brought down trees and power lines in the Nashville area, leaving thousands of homes without power. But about 20 miles outside the city an electric […]
The Energy Transition Is Underway. Fossil Fuel Workers Could Be Left Behind.
Tiffany Berger spent more than a decade working at a coal-fired power plant in Coshocton County, Ohio, eventually becoming a unit operator making about $100,000 annually.But in 2020, American Electric […]
Yellen Urges China to Cooperate More on Climate Finance
The Biden administration called on China on Saturday to do more to help developing countries combat climate change, urging the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases to back international climate […]
A Giant Wind Farm Is Taking Root Off Massachusetts
On a chilly June day, with the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard just over the distant horizon, a low-riding, green-hulled vessel finished hammering a steel column nearly 100 feet into […]
North Sea Sees Potential Shift from Oil and Gas to Renewable Energies
The North Sea has long been host to some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes and hundreds of rigs for producing oil and natural gas. Now, if European leaders have […]
Energy Tax Credits, Meant to Help U.S. Suppliers, May Be Hard to Get
In April, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells, a solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Ga., to announce an early triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act: Summit Ridge Energy, one […]
Burning Man Becomes Latest Adversary in Geothermal Feud
One of the darkest towns in America lies roughly 100 miles north of Reno, where the lights are few and rarely lit until one week each summer when pyrotechnics and […]