The Reconciliation Bill that passed earlier this month drastically reduces federal tax credits and other incentives for solar, wind and other clean renewable energy.  Residential solar tax credits expire at the end of 2025, so if you were planning to go solar, you really need to hurry.  The Electric Vehicle (EV) tax credits expire even earlier: at the end of September 2025.  Commercial solar projects must begin before the end of 2026 and be completed by the end of 2028.  This chart details all the renewable energy tax credit changes.

The New Jersey State Senate unanimously passed smart solar permitting legislation (S4100) on June 30 by a 39-0 vote. The bill will expedite the approval process for residential solar and battery systems, delivering more solar installations and energy bill savings for families across the state.

In many states across the U.S., getting a rooftop solar installation can provide financial benefits. The solar energy goes toward reducing the home’s grid energy usage, and any excess electricity generated can be sent back to the utility for at least some credit. In this way, a solar installation that is the property of the homeowner acts as a hedge against rising utility costs.

Solar energy companies across the region are reeling at the prospect of rollbacks to the solar energy tax credits included in the budget bill that passed the U.S. House in May.

With electricity bills set to rise for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware customers next month, clean energy advocates are demanding the regional electric grid operator allow new renewable energy sources to connect to the grid faster.

Perfect timing!  73 grants to help public schools and community colleges across PA go solar and save big were announced.  Five Philly public schools and Community College of Philadelphia are among the 25 winners in southeast PA. 

Attorneys general from 17 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, asking a district court to block the president’s ban on wind energy approvals and declare it unlawful.

A group of Bryn Mawr math majors partnered with PSEA last year to help schools do the preliminary solar audits and analyses needed to determine whether the school district should invest in on-site solar.  The students caught on so quickly to all the online modeling tools, the Solar Schools Toolkit and its proformas that they were able to complete detailed analyses for two School Districts.  Two of the students stayed with the project after the semester had ended and took it all the way to the finish line, with the School District deciding to go solar on an elementary school. 

Electricity customers in the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland (PJM) region are facing a looming cost crisis stemming from two major issues: (a) worsening barriers to building and connecting new generation resources needed to supply the electric grid, and (b) unprecedented increases in projected electricity demand. Accelerating new resource deployment will be necessary to reliably serve new and existing load without greatly increasing energy costs to electricity customers.

Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity.

Akira Drake Rodriguez, a University of Pennsylvania professor who has studied inequities in housing and schools, has repeatedly visited a school in west Philadelphia to install weather sensors. Kids there were hot and frustrated, squeezed into overcrowded classrooms, and unable even to get a drink of water because school water fountains didn’t work.

“Every time I walked through that school, whether it was June or October, the kids were like, ‘It’s so f-ing hot in here,’” she said.

Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA),  is a $396 million industrial decarbonization grant program at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

The goal of RISE PA is to substantially reduce emissions from Pennsylvania’s industrial sector by funding decarbonization projects at industrial facilities across the Commonwealth.

We explore some of the ways of deploying solar energy for groups of people and how to make them successful.

Invoking the innovative genius of Ben Franklin, Gov. Shapiro unveiled his Lightning Energy Plan, urging Pennsylvania to reclaim its energy leadership.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is warning regional electricity grid operator PJM that the state will consider leaving the organization if it doesn’t do more to protect consumers against soaring power prices.

Anna Goldman, a primary care physician at Boston Medical Center, got tired of hearing that her patients couldn't afford the electricity needed to run breathing assistance machines, recharge wheelchairs, turn on air conditioning or keep their refrigerators plugged in. So she worked with her hospital on a solution.

A new study finds rooftop solar will save California $2.3B this year — a rebuttal to the ​‘cost-shift’ math that’s led regulators to stifle solar growth.

For years, California utilities, regulators, and consumer advocates have argued that residents with solar panels on their rooftops are making electricity more expensive for everyone else in the state.

Five governors are urging the PJM Interconnection to reform its capacity market rules and interconnection queue process to prevent “unnecessary” costs for electricity customers.

The sector is enjoying massive production investment thanks to the clean energy law, even as it contends with heightened tariffs.

As the school year kicks off, many Philadelphia students are returning to aging buildings that are powered by an electric grid fueled largely by planet-warming natural gas.