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Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further ...
An updated draft of the Senate’s megabill text slashes tax incentives for wind and solar energy – and adds a new tax on ...
Elon Musk calls the Senate’s latest version of the spending bill ‘utterly insane and destructive.’ ...
The latest version of the Senate's massive budget bill that the Senate is racing through for a vote as soon as Saturday deals ...
NASA’s CODEX is giving scientists unprecedented data on the Sun’s corona, unveiling solar wind details that could boost space ...
Using wind and solar cuts many more tons of carbon than their production and disposal create, and they’re vastly cleaner than fossil fuels. 2050 54 M tons Best-case Photovoltaic 2040 2030 2020 0 ...
Solar and wind combine to account for a record 17% of the total generation in the U.S. in 2024. It’s also tripled the amount ...
A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half ... significantly higher than the typical 350°C atmospheric background temperature.
For every 10 percentage points of solar and wind, the cost increases by more than 4¢. The results are nearly similar for 2019, before any impacts of COVID and the Ukraine war.
Solar + wind = 20.55% of US generating capacity. Just solar and wind combined now make up more than one-fifth of the US’s total available installed utility-scale generating capacity.
Credit: Simulating high-speed solar wind streams from coronal holes using an L5–L1 configuration of lagrangian points. Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97246-2 ...