Solar and wind power just hit record highs in the U.S. with explosive growth and plunging costs. Here’s which states are ...

Efforts to block wind and solar energy have grown along with advances in the technology, especially since 2021. USA TODAY’s analysis found by the end of 2025, 24% of counties nationwide had some ...

Wind energy infrastructure doesn’t produce power if the air isn’t moving, and solar doesn’t generate power if the sun’s not out. But that doesn’t mean that either source of energy is "worthless" ...

How my portable wind turbine compares to solar panels - 2 years of testing later ...

Overall, electrical consumption in the US rose by 2.8 percent, or about 121 terawatt-hours. Consumption had been largely flat for several decades, with efficiency and the decline of industry ...

EIA’s latest monthly “Electric Power Monthly” report (with data through July 31, 2025), once again confirms that solar is the fastest growing among the major sources of US electricity. In July alone, ...

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new ...

The sun, our nearest star, never stops breathing. Every second of every day, it exhales a vast stream of charged particles ...

European energy giant Vattenfall has started construction on a new hybrid renewable energy project in southwest Germany that combines wind and solar power at a single site. The project, called ...

"Wind and solar energy infrastructure is essentially worthless when it is dark outside, and when the wind is not blowing," the U.S. Energy Department posted on social media. The U.S. Energy Department ...