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A row of public electric vehicle charging stations

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How fast electric vehicle adoption is happening

Worldwide electric vehicle adoption hit a record in 2025, but US sales reversed hard once the $7,500 federal tax credit expired in September.
NRC inspectors in hard hats at the Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear construction site in Georgia

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Is solar power cheaper than nuclear power today?

Is solar cheaper than nuclear? Lazard's 2025 unsubsidized data puts solar at $38 to $78 per megawatt-hour versus $141 to $220 for new nuclear.
Rows of white utility-scale battery storage containers at a solar-plus-storage site

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Does battery energy storage undercut the energy return of wind and solar?

Battery energy storage is scaling fast on the US grid. What a 2014 net-energy argument got wrong, what's changed, and what batteries still can't do.
Small ground-mounted solar arrays on a farm property

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How much money is going into clean energy now

Renewable energy investment is part of the $2.2 trillion that went into clean energy in 2025, almost twice fossil fuel spending. See where it went.
Wind turbines spaced widely across prairie wetlands at the Tatanka Wind Farm in the Dakotas

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Power density and how much land each energy source needs

Power density measures the watts each energy source produces per square meter, and it explains why wind and solar need more land than gas or nuclear.
Rows of solar panels at the Topaz Solar Farm in California

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Why solar keeps beating the IEA’s growth forecasts

The IEA solar forecast undershot actual solar growth for more than a decade, and its newest outlook moved down for policy reasons instead of up.
NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, where atmospheric carbon dioxide has been measured since the 1950s

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How do we know humans are causing climate change?

Is climate change caused by humans? Yes. NOAA and IPCC data show how scientists know, from record heat to a fossil fuel fingerprint in the air.
Close-up of a residential electricity meter mounted on an exterior wall

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Electricity prices around the world, by country

Household electricity price per kWh by country in US dollars, where the US ranks, and why German and British homes pay more than twice as much.
Smokestacks of the Huntley Generating Station, a coal plant on the Niagara River in Tonawanda, New York

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How carbon pricing works around the world in 2026

See how carbon pricing works, from carbon taxes to cap-and-trade markets, plus current US and EU allowance prices and why the US has no federal one.
Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the California coast, seen from Port San Luis

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Nuclear energy’s future in the US and worldwide

The future of nuclear energy includes US plant restarts backed by tech money and a Chinese reactor-building boom that's now roughly half the world's total.