This Amory Lovins & Justin Locke editorial makes the case for powering the data-center explosion with clean, renewable energy: solarnoon.net/2026/04/15/d... (story via @canarymedia.com)

An attempt to boost solar installations on all those big, flat commercial roofs around town (& avoid the NIMBYs)
solarnoon.net/2026/04/14/i... (story via @austinchronicle.bsky.social)

Trump’s Energy Crisis | Climate Power Trump and Republicans are creating a self-inflicted energy crisis, sending utility costs through the roof, closing down factories, and making us more dependent on foreign oil, all while dramatically i...

Since Trump took office, 365 clean energy projects have been canceled, delayed, or are laying off staff.

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather Britain’s sunny spring weather powered the grid to new solar energy records on two consecutive days this week. Solar farms in England, Wales and Scotland generated 14.1 GW of low-carbon electricity at lunchtime on Monday, surpassing the previous high of 14GW in July last year. Continue reading...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

The British get it: power from the sun means less dependence on fossil fuels, and less disruption from the wars that tend to break out over them: solarnoon.net/2026/04/09/b... (story via @theguardian.com)

Congratulations to the oil barons and the ever-gullible MAGA masses - the pro-fossil-fuel/anti-clean-energy lies have been working!
solarnoon.net/2026/04/06/s...
We've got our work cut out for us, folks. (story via @pewresearch.org)

It's not just what comes out of the tailpipe that's bad. Getting oil, shipping oil, refining oil; it's dirty & dangerous every step of the way (and that's not even counting the wars) solarnoon.net/2026/04/04/o... (story via @capitalb.bsky.social)

Who needs more gas-fired plants? Not California.
solarnoon.net/2026/04/03/s... (story via @canarymedia.com)

Could MAGA come around on renewables?: solarnoon.net/2026/04/01/could-maga-co...

Canary Media: Sky-high oil prices are about to hit Puerto Rico’s grid.

"“In the continental U.S., no one’s burning a significant quantity of oil to generate electricity,” said Cathy Kunkel, an energy consultant at the Institut... solarnoon.net/2026/04/01/canary-media-...

This is cool & clever, and reduces some workforce stress as we transition away from fossil fuels: The future of geothermal energy may depend on fossil fuel workers

"[Sage Geosystems cofounder Cindy Taff] sees a broad range of fossil f... solarnoon.net/2026/03/31/this-is-cool-...

Virginia, showing how to do it: solarnoon.net/2026/03/30/virginia-show...

Today in idiotic and self-defeating moves that increase energy prices by undermining clean energy projects: Trump is paying nearly $1 billion to stop offshore wind projects

The Hill: Reconciliation bill subsidizes fossil fuels by $3.5B each year, Democratic report finds

"The report only looks at provisions that specifically help the fossil fuel industry and does not include general corporate tax cuts that are likely to bolster those firms as well as others"

The Guardian, with some cool pictures and full shade: Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 of them – in pictures

"The US president has made the easily debunked claim that there are no wind farms in China"

European nations reinforce wind power commitment with 100 GW pledge

"“We are standing up for our national interest by driving for clean energy, which can get the UK off the fossil fuel rollercoaster and give us energy sovereignty and abundance,” said British energy minister Ed Miliband"

An llustraton shows the ominous shadow of President Trump cast across a solar array

Photo of the JH Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan, under cloudy skies

The Trump Energy Crisis: solarnoon.net/2026/02/07/the-trump-ene...

In case someone else says this dumb thing to you: Trump says the big US winter storm is proof of climate hoax – here’s why he’s wrong

"scientists point out that a single winter storm… tells us very little about longer-term, global climate trends. …The world [is] undeniably heating up"

Case in point on my agrivoltaics post the other day: Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables

"a growing number of farmers are discovering the free grazing opportunities offered by some solar panel sites are a toe-hold in an industry where land is often unaffordable/unobtainable"

Photo of dual-use agricultural land, green leafy plants and solar panels stretching away to the horizon under a clear blue sky

A family of five, including three small children, stands in the shade of a solar panel next to rows of garden plants on a dual-use agrivoltaic farm

Agrivoltaics - Win-Win-Win, So Many Wins: solarnoon.net/2026/01/14/agrivoltaics-...

Good news (again/for now): Judge reverses Trump order halting Revolution Wind

"Judge Lamberth said the government had failed to explain why the new information warranted a halt to construction, calling it an “unreasonable and seemingly unjustified” change in position."

There are a bunch of these dumb & purely political orders, all over the country, as the Trump admin desperately tries to prop up fossil fuels. This coal plant in Colorado isn’t even running (it broke down 2 weeks before the order). Gov. Polis is right: it’s ludicrous

It's true, @billmckibben.bsky.social gets the blame, errrm no oops, I mean the *credit* for this 😊 I hope to make solarnoon.net a source of inspiration & education. We've got to get this transition GOING

hi, there! after reading Bill McKibben’s Here Comes the Sun last year, I’ve become a clean-energy zealot. I’ve been learning a lot about it; it’s an area with fantastic potential & massive innovation… there’s so much good news (& bad; thanks Tr*mp) that I’ve started a new blog: Solar Noon

air pollution over dense urban area

An 1880 cartoon depicting "Old King Coal" and a deadly demon of air pollution inflicting disease on the city below

Lifesaving Solar: https://solarnoon.net/2026/01/02/lifesaving-solar.html

offshore wind turbines and construction platform in the Revolution Wind project

We Need Wind Power, Especially in Winter: solarnoon.net/2025/12/31/we-need-wind-...

Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way

Great story & pictures from @science.org naming the surge in renewables their Breakthrough of the Year www.science.org/content/arti...

"China’s solar power generation grew more than 20-fold over the past decade, & its solar & wind farms now have enough capacity to power the entire United States."

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Chart: Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption The small European country unseated a longtime champion in a ranking of nations by how much of their electricity comes from solar.

Which country got the largest share of its electricity from solar in 2024? A balmy island nation, a country with swaths of blistering desert, or at least somewhere notoriously hot and sunny? Nope - per @canarymedia.com, the global leader was Hungary www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol... 🌞

This is what’s known in the business as, “bullshit”: Trump officials halt offshore wind-farm projects over ‘national security risks’. It’s a disgusting & arbitrary overreach that will only drive up energy prices (and deadly emissions, of course)