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The budget talks are a high-stakes test of how effective K Street’s new energy teams can be on Capitol Hill.

The projects, which had been conditionally approved by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office, are mostly battery factories.

The new analysis suggests that China’s carbon dioxide emissions may have peaked.

GOP plan could cut US household incomes by more than $300 annually.

As it navigates foreign tradewars, China is turning more cash toward local clean energy projects.

The consensus forming among Republican lawmakers on renewable energy subsidies is less extreme than the industry’s worst fears.

Demand for gas power-generation hardware is surging, but the few companies that make it are reluctant to scale up.

After winning a $20 billion contract with Google, Intersect Power wants to “create a whole new class of real estate.”

Europe’s electric grid is sorely underinvested in. Forthcoming interest rate cuts should help.

The bulk are in GOP-controlled districts, and could be on the chopping block if congressional Republicans follow through on repealing or gutting Biden-era tax credits.

Dividend payments and share buybacks are at risk if oil prices continue to slide.

The Trump administration wants to push the power sector more into coal and gas, but utility execs have a different plan.