Across the country, governors and state lawmakers are facing the same challenge: electricity demand is rising, power bills are increasing, and constituents expect solutions. Increasingly, policymakers from both parties are arriving at the same answer. Solar and energy storage are among the fastest, most cost-effective resources available to add new … [continued]
Solar energy is the most affordable source of new electricity generation on the market today. It is the fastest energy source to build and is helping prop up the grid during even the most severe heatwaves. As electricity demand continues to climb, these technologies are well positioned to meet America’s growing energy needs. However, … [continued]
Electricity demand is rising. Prices are climbing. And America needs more power, fast. The good news is solar and storage are delivering. Across the country, from California to Texas to the Midwest, the industry is breaking records at a pace that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago. … [continued]
From the earliest days of our founding to the industrial revolution, from rural electrification to the interstate highway system, Americans have always met big challenges by building the tools, technologies, and infrastructure needed to power the next era of growth. Today, as America prepares to mark its 250th birthday, solar … [continued]
For the first time in the UK, more new electric vehicles (EVs) have been sold over a 12-month period than petrol cars, according to Carbon Brief analysis. The news comes amid a battle over the future of the UK’s “zero-emissions vehicle” (ZEV) mandate, which the car industry and some unions … [continued]
This rapid solarisation raises its electrification rate to the global average. Pakistan’s energy economy is now as electrified as the global average, following a rapid solarisation that has transformed the country’s energy system in just two years, according to a new report, “The Solarisation of Pakistan’s energy economy,” from Ember and … [continued]
As the UK experiences extreme temperatures, with forecasts above 37°C, think tank Ember finds that households with rooftop solar are powering the equivalent of five hours of air conditioning a day. Solar and air conditioning have similar seasonal patterns, meaning that when the need for cooling hits, solar is likely … [continued]
In the first two months of the US-Israel war with Iran, fossil fuel price spikes cost Europe an additional €18.5 billion. Despite this vulnerability, electrification offers Europe a path away from this vulnerability. European manufacturers can already produce twice as many wind turbines and electric vehicles as the continent deploys … [continued]
Ember has been experimenting with using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand the scale, depth and usability of our analytical work. AI allows us to move faster from a research question to a working analytical tool, but more importantly it helps us test more scenarios, combine more datasets and generate more … [continued]
Left: Observed changes in the Earth heat inventory for the period 1971–2020. Right: Estimates of the Earth energy imbalance for successive overlapping 20-year periods and the most recent decade (right). Shaded regions indicate the very likely range (90–100 % probability), while the stars show the CERES (NASA Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System) estimates for comparison. Credit: Forster et al. (2026)
The planet is heating up more quickly than ever before. For decades, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity have been building up in the atmosphere and trapping ever-higher levels of heat. The resulting asymmetry between incoming solar energy and energy radiated back out into space — known as “Earth’s … [continued]
