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From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid
Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]
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Low-Cost Community Solar Keeps Growing Despite Tide Of Negative Federal Policy
Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, the community solar movement continues to grow in the US.
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BYD Shark 6 Is A Predator, Now More Than Ready To Eat The Philippine Pickup Market
This will be my first test drive report for CleanTechnica. Since I started off with that statement, let me say that I am nervous writing a test drive report for the US market, knowing how much knowledge and experience there is out there regarding EVs. I don’t even have one. … [continued]
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U.S. Coal-Fired Generating Capacity Retired in 2025 Was the Least in 15 Years
During 2025, the U.S. electric power sector retired 2.6 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, the least since 2010. At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to a future … [continued]
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Hydropower Generation Expected to Recover Despite Snow Drought in the West
In our April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect U.S. hydropower generation will increase by 5% in 2026 but remain 1.8% below the 10-year average following snow drought conditions in some states. Hydropower generation in 2025 increased to 245 billion kilowatthours (BkWh), about 4 BkWh more than the record-low generation year 2024. … [continued]
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