A shuttered plant is reimagined as Manresa Wilds, an example of an old facility repurposed to solve a new century’s problems.

With federal subsidies ending or becoming hard to claim, companies are racing ahead with solar, wind and battery projects.

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China is building a network of ultrahigh-voltage power lines to carry solar and wind energy hundreds and even thousands of miles as few citizens dare to protest.

China is using the high-altitude expanse for immense solar panel farms and wind turbines and has begun work on the world’s largest hydroelectric dams.

Domestic coal can’t compete with batteries, solar and gas much longer.

Share your energy bills for a forthcoming project about the demand of A.I. on the grid.

Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse.

The oil giant said Tuesday that it was acquiring assets from a Chicago company as it looks to start producing graphite, a key battery ingredient, by the end of the decade.

Its vast investment in solar, wind and batteries is on track to end an era of global growth in the use of coal, oil and gas, the researchers said.