A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint.

Until this point, the public conversation about AI and climate change has been laser-focused on the vast amount of electricity used to power the technology.

PSEA is holding its Solar Panel Kit Training for middle school and 9th grade teachers on Saturday, September 26th at the Friends Center, 15th and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia from 10:00 to 12:30 pm. 

Along the wide and scenic Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Microsoft is reviving the nuclear power plant Three Mile Island. Infamous for the 1979 partial meltdown of one of its two reactors, it has been idle since 2019. But last year, Microsoft announced a deal with plant owner Constellation Energy to bring the nuclear facility’s remaining reactor back online and provide 835 megawatts of energy to help power its AI ambitions.

Democratic lawmakers and environmental advocates from Pennsylvania are advocating for proposed federal legislation that aims to promote clean energy and reduce peoples’ energy bills.

The U.S. just hit a big milestone: It got more power from solar panels than from coal plants in May.

A new solar farm, if approved, would generate approximately 3,000 megawatt hours of energy annually, effectively covering all of the airport’s electrical needs.

Mandatory utility fees, passed in 27 states, distort price signals for rooftop solar and storage, locking households into an expensive, centralized grid framework.

PHILADELPHIA – May 11, 2026  – Today, the Philadelphia Energy Authority (PEA) and Philadelphia Green Capital Corp. (PGCC), joined by City administration and state leaders, members of City Council, and former Council President Darrell Clarke, announced the 10-year results of the Philadelphia Energy Campaign, highlighting $2 billion of economic impact, more than 11,000 jobs created, and over $1.4 billion in energy savings for the City of Philadelphia and its residents.

Hundreds of family farms go bankrupt every year in Pennsylvania.  Due to skyrocketing energy costs,  fertilizer costs, tariffs and other factors,  current economic pressures on farmers have never been higher. 

Peco announced Thursday that it is withdrawing a request to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) for $520 million in rate increases to customers for electric and natural gas delivery in 2027.

The logic behind electric vehicles benefiting public health has long been solid: More EVs means fewer internal combustion engines on the road, and a reduction in harmful tailpipe emissions.

Teachers will learn how to teach students to design and build model solar cars.  The training is free to all 5th,  6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade teachers in public and private schools as well as after school programs. 

Natural gas, not solar panels and wind turbines, is the primary driver behind soaring power prices in Maine, according to a new report released this week by the state’s energy department. 

In case you haven't heard, the PA General Assembly and Governor Josh Shapiro re-enacted “Solar for Schools” legislation, as well as $25 million in the state budget for grants for schools to go solar!

The federal residential rooftop solar tax credits expire at the end of this year. But Philly-area homeowners have another affordable option through leasing.

Even though the residential solar tax credit now expires at the end of 2025,  it's not too late to go solar and save.   Through the Pennsylvania BRIGHT program, homeowners in the Greater Philadelphia area can still go solar and save. 

Since the Industrial Revolution, human society has run on ancient solar energy—captured by plants hundreds of millions of years ago, stored in fossil fuels, and dug and drilled from the earth. But this year momentum shifted unmistakably toward the energy that streams from the Sun today. Renewable energy, most of it from sunlight itself or from wind, ultimately driven by the Sun, overtook conventional energy on multiple fronts.

As the federal government rolls back incentives for solar power, the city of Philadelphia is buying more.

The city has inked an agreement with Oriden Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Power, to buy electricity from a solar farm planned in Pennsylvania’s Clearfield County. The project, called Abes Run, is expected to be built and operational by the end of 2026.

A compromise that sacrifices Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to end the commonwealth’s four-month budget stalemate would be shortsighted and harmful, environmental and clean energy advocates say.

The current about-face in federal policy on clean energy has echoes of earlier shocks, with one very big difference: solar PV is now the cheapest and fastest form of energy in the world. This means that solar can outcompete fossil fuels on a level playing field. That said, in Pennsylvania we do not have a level playing field — the state provides more than $3.5 billion in subsidies to fossil fuels annually.