T1 Energy CEO Daniel Barcelo highlighted the challenges facing the U.S. solar industry in competing with China, particularly in areas like polysilicon, while expressing confidence that America can be cost-competitive by strengthening domestic manufacturing.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” E.U. Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero, and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra said that solar energy will eventually be one of or the cheapest energy options, but “We are late with tackling climate change,
The Treasury Department has announced stricter rules for solar and wind projects to qualify for federal tax subsidies, which are being phased out over the next two years under President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
President Donald Trump essentially halted a Biden-era wind farm that the previous administration tried to push through at the last minute.
Attorney General Merrick Garland finds himself in the congressional crosshairs as Republicans on Capitol Hill intensify investigations into his Department of Justice’s alleged coverup of a solar energy scandal centered around a plant based in Nevada called Crescent Dunes.
Outgoing President Joe Biden’s Justice Department moved on election night on Nov. 5 to essentially ensure the cover-up of a potentially massive green energy scandal, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
California is producing so much solar energy that it has to pay other states — or energy traders — to use it, making electricity cheaper for other states’ residents, while raising energy bills for local residents.
Generators warned supply was expected to be insufficient for the first time in two years on Monday, just days after UK shut final coal plant.
GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel — The sunlight glints off a geometric shape across the glassy surface of a reservoir in the Golan Heights. This is a solar array, with panels mounted on floating pontoons, and anchored to the banks, rising and
President Joe Biden visited a wind tower manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to tout his green policies, even as Hispanic ranchers in the state say they are turned off by Democrats’ climate-centric agenda.
Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, South Africa’s newly minted electricity minister, followed up a trip to China last week with pronouncements that the Communist Party will provide a solution for the socialist country’s collapsing power grid, which has needed planned blackouts for much of the past year.
House Republicans and Democrats are looking to reverse President Joe Biden’s tariff waivers for suspected Chinese companies that are reportedly funneling their solar panels through other countries to evade United States trade rules.
China’s solar manufacturers are evading United States tariffs by rerouting their production through three Southeast Asia countries, the Commerce Department reveals in a preliminary probe issued on Friday.
Republican Washington state U.S. Senate candidate Tiffany Smiley is calling for a return to American energy independence, according to her energy and environment policy proposal obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
A new report from CNBC reveals that Amazon powered down all of its solar rooftops in the U.S. last year following a series of major fires at facilities throughout the country.
Half of backbenchers in the Conservative Party have joined a green agenda group to push ahead with Boris Johnson’s Build Back Better vision.
President Joe Biden’s proposal to tax the oil and gas industries in the reconciliation bill would be costly to both the economy and in terms of job loss, an analysis by the American Petroleum Institute’s Energy Citizens initiative found.
A UK developer is considering building the world’s largest solar power farm, but campaigners warn that the project poses significant risks.
An artificial depression created around the coronavirus outbreak will kill thousands of Americans, explained Jacki Pick.
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore launched a new documentary, Planet of the Humans, on Tuesday, ahead of the 50th Earth Day on Apr. 22. Like most Moore projects, it targets corporate greed and hypocrisy. But this time, the greed and hypocrisy it targets are on the environmentalist left.
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart and Tesla have settled a lawsuit filed by the retail giant alleging that Tesla installed rooftop solar panels that caught fire.
Ostensibly environmentalist left-wingers living in smog-ridden cities lack credibility on environmental issues, said Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV), in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
The bankruptcy of California utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Tuesday will complicate efforts by Democrats to pursue a “Green New Deal,” which aims to move the U.S. to 100% renewable energy.
Elon Musk’s Tesla Energy Solutions will reportedly pay back $13 million to the state of Oregon after it was determined that the company inflated the price of its 14 commercial-scale solar projects by more than 100 percent in order to qualify for higher state tax credits.
When it comes to solar panel manufacturing, the United States once reigned supreme in the high-tech, high-end solar manufacturing industry it created.
Last month, HBO funnyman John Oliver spent an episode of his show “Last Week Tonight” delivering a profanity-laced rant demonizing coal, coal-energy advocates, and presidents of the United States who don coal-miner hard-hats. He did so following the formula that Jon Stewart has used so successfully throughout his career: Be witty and quote a lot of apparent facts in order to back up your satirically-expressed opinion about any issue and hope your audience will accept you as an expert.
California is producing so much green energy that it is forced to pay other states like Arizona to take its excess solar-generated electricity.
If a country’s goal is to decrease carbon emissions by increasing reliance on renewable energy, it only makes sense to install the new equipment in the location with the best potential—both in geography and government.
In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy.
Located in the middle of a desert, this solar tower is part of a new generation of solar power technology and helping to cement Israeli’s position as a world leader in renewable energy. Developers hope the launch will energize the
The ongoing “Solar War” between Consumers for Smart Solar and Floridians for Solar Choice continues to heat up the political pavement, as more and groups continue to take sides in this already-heated debate about whether Americans should be able to sell their surplus solar energy.
If you live in the United States, vote, pay taxes, and get your electricity from a utility company, you’ve helped the solar power industry. You support the solar industry through a variety of tax and regulatory policies—voted in by politicians you elected—that favor it over other lower-cost forms of electricity generation.
Whilst the vast majority of Europe is looking forward to watching next week’s solar eclipse in wonder and delight, for the people in charge of Germany’s power grid, the celestial event poses a major problem. Seven percent of Germany’s electricity comes
