Lanturn Weekly: The Grid Is Shifting

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:00:00 -0600

Welcome back. Three stories this week that share an unlikely thread: systems that quietly shape your daily life — your electricity, your technology, your family budget — are being rebuilt in real time, often in ways you’d never hear about on cable news. Here’s what’s happening and what you can do about it.

The U.S. Just Had Its Best Year Ever for Renewable Energy

Last year, one out of every four watts of electricity produced in the United States came from a renewable source — wind, solar, hydro. That’s a record, up 10% from the year before, and according to federal data the U.S. Energy Information Administration released this past week, it was enough to power roughly 108 million homes for a year. To put that another way: the country’s renewable output in 2025 was equivalent to nearly 300 Hoover Dams running at full capacity, every hour, all year long. That tells a story you’d never pick up from the political fights over energy policy.

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Lanturn Weekly: The Grid Is Shifting

The U.S. Just Had Its Best Year Ever for Renewable Energy