Casey Crownhart

How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.

The company’s electricity demand has doubled since 2020, making its end-of-decade target more of a challenge.

Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review’s senior climate reporter and Pilita Clark, FT columnist (and a former environment correspondent) ask whether power limitations are about to cost the US its technological advantage.

Welcome to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next six weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Casey Crownhart, senior reporter for energy at MIT Technology Review and Pilita Clark, FT’s…

Why focusing on the energy system and large companies is more important than policing individual behavior.

This startup wants to clean up the copper industry

Why he thinks near-term targets can be a distraction, and what technologies he expects to power our future grid.

A wildlife veterinarian who performs necropsies shares what it takes to investigate a whale stranding.

Rondo Energy hopes hot bricks could help clean up manufacturing.

What’s BECCS, and why’s it so complicated?

What our latest list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch says about this moment.

The startup is using waste materials and alternative fuels to make cement, slashing greenhouse gas emissions in a polluting industry.

Federal support can’t last forever, but things aren’t looking great for electric vehicles in the US.

The new edition of our annual list features startups and established businesses working to decarbonize transportation, heavy industry, energy, and more.

The industry is getting billions, but it’s way too early to count on fusion to meet growing electricity demand.

The power purchase agreement makes Eni the second major customer for Commonwealth’s first commercial fusion power plant.

Forecasts aren’t looking quite as rosy for the green fuel, though China is still a bright spot.

A legal battle is brewing, as two companies are suing to overturn the two-year ban.

AI is changing the grid. Could it help more than it harms?

Meet the Ethiopian entrepreneur who is reinventing ammonia production