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Almost 90 utility-scale solar projects are in the development pipeline in Ohio, which has lagged in renewable energy buildouts but now ranks No. 1 in Midwestern solar ambitions.

A major regional producer—Cloud Peak Energy—is near bankruptcy while another—BlackJewell LLC—is keeping up with its tax obligations, signals of an industry decline gaining speed.

In a “David and Goliath battle,” Kit Carson co-op is winning its fight to modernize its business model in a way that supports local job creation and local economic development.

The former coal-mining region of Lusatia is turning into a tourist attraction: “Almost 37,000 acres of land ravaged by mining will eventually become Europe's biggest water playground.”

In a policy shift, the Navajo Nation government said it would invest heavily in a regional renewable-energy boom. "The opportunity is here, ladies and gentlemen,” President Joseph Nez said. “Let us embrace it.”

Proper cleanup and waste storage at the Colstrip power complex in Montana would create over 200 long-term jobs and sustain a post-coal economy in the for years to come.

Repurposing of coal-fired plants in Indiana and Massachusetts suggest a strategy that can keep communities, jobs, and public services from disappearing. 

Closures last year of the J.M. Stuart and Killen coal-stations have decimated small-town economies. “The only thing we had going for us, really were the power plants,” said a local sheriff.

Researchers in Australia, where a power-generation shift is unfolding similar to the one happening in the U.S., stress the importance of putting “measures in place to ease the transition.”

“An unlikely coalition of backers”—unions, environmentalists and the state’s biggest public utility—helped enact a bill that pushes New Mexico into a new energy era.