A solar and wind excise tax is out. A quick end to EV incentives is in. Here’s what clean energy provisions made the Senate-passed “big, beautiful bill.” https://t.co/LRWtH2BSsv

Can clean energy help bring jobs to rural America? For a new series with Rural News Network, Canary Media's Kari Lydersen traveled to Decatur, Illinois to find out — the video below details what she found.

New from @ClareFieseler: Empire Wind, a massive offshore wind project in New York, may soon be abandoned mid-construction due to a mysterious report that few have seen. https://t.co/v1WukZA8Vi

The House Republicans' plan to revamp clean energy tax credits has a huge poison pill — a "foreign entities of concern" section that would bar any energy project or factory from claiming credits if they use materials even remotely tied to China: https://t.co/BOEmd9lGPb

The House GOP budget proposal contains far-reaching restrictions on foreign materials that would amount to a "back door repeal" of the Inflation Reduction Act, @jeffsaintjohn reports. "It’s going to grind everything to a standstill," one source said. https://t.co/1REX3sDQ6N

Trump talks about bringing industrial manufacturing back to the U.S. But with DOGE at the helm, his administration is set to gut the Industrial Demonstrations Program that was upgrading blast furnaces at steel plants, support Exxon Mobil projects and reshoring aluminum smelting

Is Georgia Power planning gigawatts of fossil gas-fired power plants to meet booming data center demand? Or is it giving cleaner options like solar and batteries a fair shake? Watchdog groups and tech giants want to know — but the utility isn't telling: https://t.co/2VDy5mqEkn

In one of the nation’s poorest towns, the mayor and others are planning to build a solar installation and a gleaming new resilience hub, betting big on clean energy to uplift the community. Reporting by @envirouzts:

Texas-based startup Base Power just raised $200 million to expand its rapidly growing home-battery business. @JulianSpector has the scoop: https://t.co/bua7fzOc8W

News from @ClareFieseler : The Trump administration axed hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — including many tasked with making sure offshore wind activities can coexist with whales and other wildlife. https://t.co/VQhClYrsvU

Part three of @CanaryMediaInc's data center series looks at how utilities, tech giants and other data center developers are choosing to take on the looming AI power crunch, not as an excuse to build dirty power plants, but as a clean-power opportunity:

Holtec is looking to make history not once but twice at Michigan's Palisades nuclear plant: First by restarting a reactor shuttered in 2022 and second with plans to build the nation’s first small modular reactors, @AlexCKaufman reports for Canary Media: https://t.co/2LKuWg0clG

Part two of @CanaryMediaInc's data center series explores a big problem for utilities trying to serve the AI boom — the uncertainty around where data centers will be built, how much power they'll need, and whether the AI boom will turn out to be a bust:

This week, @CanaryMediaInc explores the AI and data center boom forcing utilities and regulators to choose between bearing steep climate and consumer costs for what might end up a tech mirage, or finding a cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable way forward:

What will data centers do to the grid? And does it have to be bad?? Join me and four experts at this free webinar on Tuesday, Feb. 25 to talk through the AI boom, the grid crunch, and how cleaner pathways could also be cheaper and faster: https://t.co/g6syxELQ7K 📷

Amid political chaos, Kore Power ditched a long-simmering, $1.2B plan to build a battery factory from scratch. Now, it’s hunting for an existing plant where it can set up shop, @JulianSpector reports: https://t.co/Hk5kLx6dFN

🚨Personal news🚨: Canary Media and Energy News Network are officially merged! What to expect: The same in-depth clean energy journalism that you know and love, only a lot more of it — and with an even stronger focus on regional news. Read more here:

The Trump admin’s likely illegal freeze of federal climate and energy funds has forced grant recipients to furlough workers, bear unreimbursed costs and delay projects. A federal judge has ordered the freeze to end. When will federal agencies comply?

And that’s just one week’s worth of reporting from our small-but-mighty (and growing!) nonprofit newsroom. Give us a follow @CanaryMediaInc and get more in-depth clean energy reporting like this each week.

To close out the week, a spot of good news: @akiellyhu writes in our chart of the week that in the EU solar generated more power than coal for the first time ever last year. https://t.co/CIEv6apCQZ