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November 20, 2025

What’s Next After Louisiana’s Gas Plant Approval for Meta Data Center

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

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October 8, 2025

New England Closes the Door on Coal. Cheaper Renewables Can Take Its Place.

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

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August 18, 2025

Entergy Wants to Fast-Track Gas Plants for Meta Data Center, Leaving Ratepayers With the Bill

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

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July 28, 2025

Smarter Integration of Renewables Could Have Prevented the Blackout in Spain and Portugal

Lee Shaver
Senior Energy Analyst

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June 12, 2025

100K Louisianans Were Left Without Power. Without Transmission Planning, It’ll Keep Happening.

Guest Commentary

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May 29, 2025

Entergy Doesn’t Want Louisianans to Know How Expensive this Gas Project Could Be

Paul Arbaje
Energy Analyst

House Committee on Oversight

March 3, 2025

What UCS Said at the Congressional Hearing on ‘Opportunities to Strengthen US Energy Reliability’

Rachel Cleetus
Policy Director

A man installing a solar panel on a rooftop.

Raze Solar/Unsplash

September 18, 2024

Michigan Can Get Solar for All Right With These Steps

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

A dispatch board shows the distribution of the state's electricity at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Alhambra Control Center after a Stage 1 power emergency was announced in 2006.

David McNew/Getty Images

June 10, 2024

Want to Connect Clean Energy to California’s Power Grid? Get in Line (Part 2 of 3)

Vivian Yang
Western States Energy Analyst

large-scale solar array

Werner Slocum/NREL

October 16, 2023

We Need Large-Scale Solar. A New Agreement Points the Way Forward

John Rogers
Associate Director, Energy Analytics

August 4, 2023

Batteries Now Can Replace Old Power Plants

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Pedro Castellano

June 12, 2023

Fossil Fuels vs. Renewables: A Price on Reliability?

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

solar panels atop a school in San Franciso,, California

Matt Montagne/Flickr

April 27, 2023

Where is California Going to Site Its New Solar Power?

Vivian Yang
Western States Energy Analyst

February 6, 2023

Can Solar, Storage and Efficiency Help Us Survive Winters Like This?

Maria Chavez
Energy Analyst

Ikcerog/Wikimedia Commons

December 1, 2022

How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

James Gignac
Midwest Policy Director

A worker from PHILERGY, a German-Filipino supplier and installer of solar energy, carries a solar panel during a home installation.

IMF Photo/Flickr

October 19, 2022

Solar Panels Should Be Reused and Recycled. Here’s How.

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

solar panels being manufactured

Solar Giga/flickr

October 19, 2022

How Are Solar Panels Made?

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

row of solar panels with mountain backdrop

October 19, 2022

Mining Raw Materials for Solar Panels: Problems and Solutions

Charlie Hoffs
Former UCS Fellow

May 19, 2022

Minnesota Lawmakers Could Go Big on Clean Energy, or Go Small

Meghan Hassett
Former Contributor

May 18, 2022

Why We Can Send A Rover To Mars, But We Can’t Send An Electron From New York to California

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Western Area Power

March 30, 2022

Five Grid Plans to Cut Fossil Fuel Dependence

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

Paxson Woelber/Flickr

January 24, 2022

Odds are Power Plants Near You are Holding Back on Cold Days

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

King County Housing Authority

December 2, 2021

Cutting Carbon Locally

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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November 29, 2021

The Magic Math of Solar plus Storage

Joseph Daniel
Former Contributor