California State Senator @scottwiener.bsky.social just introduced the Clean Homes and Energy Affordability Package, which includes legislation to streamline permitting for heat pumps (SB 222) and streamline approvals for plug-in solar systems (SB 868): sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/slash-e... 🔌💡
To Slash Energy Costs & Climate Emissions, Senator Wiener Introduces Legislative Package to Streamline Plug-in Solar, Heat Pump Permitting
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
sd11.senate.ca.gov
January 7, 2026 at 12:12 AM
California State Senator @scottwiener.bsky.social just introduced the Clean Homes and Energy Affordability Package, which includes legislation to streamline permitting for heat pumps (SB 222) and streamline approvals for plug-in solar systems (SB 868): sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/slash-e... 🔌💡
"The UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, @carbonbrief.org analysis shows, but electricity generation from gas still went up." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... 🔌💡
Analysis: UK renewables enjoy record year in 2025 – but gas power still rises - Carbon Brief
UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants set records in 2025, Carbon Brief analysis shows, but electricity from gas still went up.
www.carbonbrief.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"The UK’s fleet of wind, solar and biomass power plants all set new records in 2025, @carbonbrief.org analysis shows, but electricity generation from gas still went up." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... 🔌💡
Solar repowering, pruning fossil gas networks, all-electric homes ... see what else made the list of the most-read stories of 2025 at Quitting Carbon: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/quitting-car... 🔌💡
Quitting Carbon's most popular stories of 2025
Curious to know what most captured the attention of Quitting Carbon's readers in 2025? Here were the top 10 most-read stories of the year.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Solar repowering, pruning fossil gas networks, all-electric homes ... see what else made the list of the most-read stories of 2025 at Quitting Carbon: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/quitting-car... 🔌💡
Solar power installations in the U.S. in 2025 are expected to exceed the record set in 2024. www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g... ☀️🔌💡
December 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Solar power installations in the U.S. in 2025 are expected to exceed the record set in 2024. www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g... ☀️🔌💡
Photovoltaic solar is expected once again to account for a significant percentage of U.S. generation capacity additions in 2026.
#energysky 🔌💡
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Writer: John Cropley
#energysky 🔌💡
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December 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Photovoltaic solar is expected once again to account for a significant percentage of U.S. generation capacity additions in 2026.
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/I0Yi50XQ55y
Writer: John Cropley
#energysky 🔌💡
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Writer: John Cropley
It takes <2 years to built out wind & electric plants. But the PJM queue for new projects is 8 years long! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
December 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It takes <2 years to built out wind & electric plants. But the PJM queue for new projects is 8 years long! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
Why solar, still?
No one is likely to build new coal or large hydro. Nuclear is far off; new gas turbines are expensive and backlogged for years. New wind power has slowed to the point that solar is poised to surpass it as the largest U.S. renewable resource by nameplate capacity. 🔌💡
No one is likely to build new coal or large hydro. Nuclear is far off; new gas turbines are expensive and backlogged for years. New wind power has slowed to the point that solar is poised to surpass it as the largest U.S. renewable resource by nameplate capacity. 🔌💡
Photovoltaic solar is expected once again to account for a significant percentage of U.S. generation capacity additions in 2026.
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/I0Yi50XQ55y
Writer: John Cropley
#energysky 🔌💡
See Full Story: ow.ly/I0Yi50XQ55y
Writer: John Cropley
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Why solar, still?
No one is likely to build new coal or large hydro. Nuclear is far off; new gas turbines are expensive and backlogged for years. New wind power has slowed to the point that solar is poised to surpass it as the largest U.S. renewable resource by nameplate capacity. 🔌💡
No one is likely to build new coal or large hydro. Nuclear is far off; new gas turbines are expensive and backlogged for years. New wind power has slowed to the point that solar is poised to surpass it as the largest U.S. renewable resource by nameplate capacity. 🔌💡
Trump's energy crisis is driving job losses and utility rate hikes.
Canceled or delayed projects have eliminated enough planned energy generation to power over 13 million homes.
Bad news for us poor folks, but could be good news for solar installers as Americans will install PV to save money. 🔌💡
Canceled or delayed projects have eliminated enough planned energy generation to power over 13 million homes.
Bad news for us poor folks, but could be good news for solar installers as Americans will install PV to save money. 🔌💡
December 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Trump's energy crisis is driving job losses and utility rate hikes.
Canceled or delayed projects have eliminated enough planned energy generation to power over 13 million homes.
Bad news for us poor folks, but could be good news for solar installers as Americans will install PV to save money. 🔌💡
Canceled or delayed projects have eliminated enough planned energy generation to power over 13 million homes.
Bad news for us poor folks, but could be good news for solar installers as Americans will install PV to save money. 🔌💡
“Solar has really opened a door that the sheep industry hasn’t had for 50-plus years.” NC State University has opened one of the Southeast’s first training facilities for agrivoltaics, story via Canary Media Inc. 🔌💡
North Carolina training site pairs sheep grazing with solar
A state university just opened a unique agrivoltaics demo site where sheep farmers and solar developers will learn what it takes to share land.
ow.ly
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Solar has really opened a door that the sheep industry hasn’t had for 50-plus years.” NC State University has opened one of the Southeast’s first training facilities for agrivoltaics, story via Canary Media Inc. 🔌💡
🔌💡 This is too cool! All the good things in one product: Direct DC to heat-pump (@kevinjkircher.com), 120v plug-in AC (@shreyassudhakar.com), works w/ permissionless DER/balcony solar (DERTF), DIY for suburban dads (@volts.wtf). @lissaharris.bsky.social @dague.net @johnsmillie42.bsky.social
Christmas came early for me, with delivery of my new @airspool.bsky.social heat pump. The driving force behind me getting this thing was that it promised to be easy to install, and boy was it ever! Read on to see how I got it on the night it was delivered without drilling a big hole through my wall.
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🔌💡 This is too cool! All the good things in one product: Direct DC to heat-pump (@kevinjkircher.com), 120v plug-in AC (@shreyassudhakar.com), works w/ permissionless DER/balcony solar (DERTF), DIY for suburban dads (@volts.wtf). @lissaharris.bsky.social @dague.net @johnsmillie42.bsky.social
🔌💡Intersect is the developer of the Darden project, and Perkins in Imperial County, and a few in the riverside east solar energy zone. They are one of the largest buyers of modules from First Solar. bsky.app/profile/samm...
Well this is interesting. Google parent company Alphabet is buying San Francisco-based Intersect — a major renewable energy development — for $4.75 billion: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/alph...
Alphabet to Buy Intersect for $4.75 Billion as AI-Investment Plans Grow
Google-parent said it would buy Intersect’s data-center projects that are in development, plus multiple gigawatts of energy and the Intersect team as part of the deal.
www.wsj.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
🔌💡Intersect is the developer of the Darden project, and Perkins in Imperial County, and a few in the riverside east solar energy zone. They are one of the largest buyers of modules from First Solar. bsky.app/profile/samm...
Yes. Most folks do not need 1MW charging, but it's now possible. And while the cost of electricity may remain high in places that don't increase the rollout of renewables, the scale at which renewables are being added in China & elsewhere will provide cheap, clean power. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
December 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Yes. Most folks do not need 1MW charging, but it's now possible. And while the cost of electricity may remain high in places that don't increase the rollout of renewables, the scale at which renewables are being added in China & elsewhere will provide cheap, clean power. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
Bureau of Land Management advanced the Libra Solar project, 700 MW solar + storage on public lands in Nevada. This project already completed environmental review, but needed additional sign off under new Secretary of the Interior “elevated review” policy. 🏜️🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/17/a...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/17/a...
After a five-month freeze, BLM finally advances a solar project
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved changes to the 700 MW solar, 700 MW 2,800 MWh energy storage Libra Solar Project in Nevada, marking the first time it has advanced a solar project since...
pv-magazine-usa.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bureau of Land Management advanced the Libra Solar project, 700 MW solar + storage on public lands in Nevada. This project already completed environmental review, but needed additional sign off under new Secretary of the Interior “elevated review” policy. 🏜️🔌💡
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/17/a...
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/17/a...
This week the Westlands Water District board approved the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan to develop 21 GW of solar + 21 GW of batteries on 136,000 acres of the west Central Valley into solar farms, with over 400 miles of new transmission lines and substations. ☀️🔌💡 ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2024020124/3
December 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This week the Westlands Water District board approved the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan to develop 21 GW of solar + 21 GW of batteries on 136,000 acres of the west Central Valley into solar farms, with over 400 miles of new transmission lines and substations. ☀️🔌💡 ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2024020124/3
Westlands approves plan to convert a quarter of its California farmland to solar: Growers in the Central Valley see solar panels as a way to keep their business afloat in a more water-strapped future.
☀️🔋 🔌💡 #EnergySky #CAwater subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
☀️🔋 🔌💡 #EnergySky #CAwater subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
This week the Westlands Water District board approved the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan to develop 21 GW of solar + 21 GW of batteries on 136,000 acres of the west Central Valley into solar farms, with over 400 miles of new transmission lines and substations. ☀️🔌💡 ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2024020124/3
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Westlands approves plan to convert a quarter of its California farmland to solar: Growers in the Central Valley see solar panels as a way to keep their business afloat in a more water-strapped future.
☀️🔋 🔌💡 #EnergySky #CAwater subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
☀️🔋 🔌💡 #EnergySky #CAwater subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
"Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage, according to Cleanview analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data shared with Canary Media." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡
Chart: Clean energy remains dominant in the US — despite Trump
Trump spent much of 2025 boosting fossil fuels and blocking renewables, but 92% of new power additions through November were solar, wind, or batteries.
www.canarymedia.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Through November, 92% of new power capacity added to the grid in 2025 came in the form of solar, wind, or storage, according to Cleanview analysis of U.S. Energy Information Administration data shared with Canary Media." www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... via @danmccarthy.bsky.social 🔌💡
Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡
When I worked at the NCAR weather & climate research data archive, my largest data user by volume was the chief meteorologist for an Agricultural juggernaut. Other frequent users were looking for areas with wind and solar potential when load needs were highest & transmission to meet load. 🔌💡
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
When I worked at the NCAR weather & climate research data archive, my largest data user by volume was the chief meteorologist for an Agricultural juggernaut. Other frequent users were looking for areas with wind and solar potential when load needs were highest & transmission to meet load. 🔌💡
The Westlands Water District just adopted the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan which "repurposes up to 136,000 acres of drainage-impaired and water supply-limited lands for solar generation" and "could generate up to 21 GW of renewable energy." wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/pr... h/t @cvonka.bsky.social 🔌💡
Press Release (12-16-2025) - Westlands Water District
For Immediate ReleaseContact: Elizabeth Jonasson(559) 241-6233 Westlands Water District Board Votes to Adopt Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan District advances major land-repurposing initiative as wat...
wwd.ca.gov
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Westlands Water District just adopted the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan which "repurposes up to 136,000 acres of drainage-impaired and water supply-limited lands for solar generation" and "could generate up to 21 GW of renewable energy." wwd.ca.gov/wwd-media/pr... h/t @cvonka.bsky.social 🔌💡
A single Chinese state-owned company is buying more solar panels and wind turbines to deploy in 2026 than the entire US market is likely to build.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/15/c...
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Chinese PV Industry Brief: PowerChina launches 31 GW solar procurement
China Power Construction Corp. (PowerChina) has launched a 31 GW solar module tender for 2026 projects, split across n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon), heterojunction (HJT) and back-cont...
www.pv-magazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A single Chinese state-owned company is buying more solar panels and wind turbines to deploy in 2026 than the entire US market is likely to build.
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/15/c...
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“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity” 🌞🔋⚡️🔌💡🌎
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
“Solar is no longer just cheap daytime electricity, now it’s anytime dispatchable electricity” 🌞🔋⚡️🔌💡🌎
"The Raya Power unit that Wood and cofounder Nicole Gonzalez designed is meant to hit all those marks. Think of it as a portable alternative to rooftop solar, one that looks a bit like an external cellar door from the space age," writes @jeffstjohn.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... 🔌💡
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in your backyard
The startup built a compact solar-battery combo that connects directly to key household appliances, is easy to plug in, and requires no special permits.
www.canarymedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"The Raya Power unit that Wood and cofounder Nicole Gonzalez designed is meant to hit all those marks. Think of it as a portable alternative to rooftop solar, one that looks a bit like an external cellar door from the space age," writes @jeffstjohn.bsky.social: www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... 🔌💡
For more background on Raya Power and its portable solar + storage system, read my Q&A with co-founder Meghan Wood from earlier this year: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/bringing-sma... 🔌💡
Bringing small modular solar to the masses
In a conversation with Quitting Carbon, Meghan Wood, co-founder of startup Raya Power, says modular solar power systems will revolutionize energy access.
www.quittingcarbonmedia.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For more background on Raya Power and its portable solar + storage system, read my Q&A with co-founder Meghan Wood from earlier this year: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/bringing-sma... 🔌💡
As the fossil fuel industry derails efforts to ramp down, the tech bro propaganda campaign to normalize solar geoengineering is ramping up.😱
50+ African nations are calling for a NON-USE agreement before it's too late. The Guardian is joining them. So should the rest of us. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
50+ African nations are calling for a NON-USE agreement before it's too late. The Guardian is joining them. So should the rest of us. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
The Guardian view on solar geoengineering: Africa has a point about this risky technology | Editorial
Editorial: Sun-dimming risks putting the planet’s thermostat under Donald Trump’s control. Better to adopt the precautionary principle with high-stakes science
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
As the fossil fuel industry derails efforts to ramp down, the tech bro propaganda campaign to normalize solar geoengineering is ramping up.😱
50+ African nations are calling for a NON-USE agreement before it's too late. The Guardian is joining them. So should the rest of us. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
50+ African nations are calling for a NON-USE agreement before it's too late. The Guardian is joining them. So should the rest of us. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
Fewer U.S. solar projects are reporting delays in their expected online date. #permittingreform #solarpower ☀️🔌💡 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fewer U.S. solar projects are reporting delays in their expected online date. #permittingreform #solarpower ☀️🔌💡 www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...