6 Energy News Sources for Power and Clean Energy

For power, utilities, grids, solar, storage, and the US clean-energy transition, start with sources that have different jobs. Utility Dive covers utility business and regulation. POWER adds generation, engineering, and plant operations. Canary Media follows clean-energy deployment. pv magazine and Energy-Storage.news provide asset-level depth in solar and batteries. EIA Today in Energy adds short, official explanations of US energy data.

All six are available as sources in Dailyn's current catalogue. Dailyn is our product. The publishers create the reporting and analysis, while Dailyn selects and summarizes relevant items into a digest. Catalogue availability does not mean every page, archive, dataset, newsletter, or paid product from a publisher is included. Review the visible source set and first digest before depending on it for a recurring workflow.

1. Utility Dive

Best for: US utilities, grid planning, regulation, generation, distributed energy, load growth, and storage.

Why it earns a place: Utility Dive is the broad daily anchor. Its reporting on large-load interconnection rules in Texas shows how it connects regulation, data-center demand, and utility planning.

Access: The publisher offers free newsletters and many public articles. News appears alongside opinion, press releases, sponsored resources, and custom content, so check the label.

Boundary: Its center of gravity is the United States. Read the relevant commission order or docket when exact legal language controls the decision.

Sources: About Utility Dive, newsletter signup, large-load interconnection example.

2. POWER

Best for: Power generation, transmission, plant operations, equipment, safety, and grid technology.

Why it earns a place: POWER brings an engineering and operations lens. Its feature on high-voltage equipment supply, 765-kV expansion, and data-center demand connects equipment constraints with grid investment.

Access: It offers online articles, newsletters, webinars, a magazine, and an archive. Some products require a subscription.

Boundary: Staff journalism, contributed work, press releases, BrandConnect material, and sponsored webinars can appear on the same site. Use the byline and content label to identify the source type.

Sources: About POWER, issue archive, grid-equipment feature.

3. Canary Media

Best for: The US clean-energy transition, including transmission, electrification, state policy, and deployment.

Why it earns a place: Canary Media is an independent nonprofit newsroom focused on the clean-energy transition. Coverage of a proposed power line connecting three US grids illustrates its system-level approach to technology, policy, and deployment.

Access: Articles and newsletters are free. The newsroom is donor-supported.

Boundary: Its clean-energy lens and regional coverage are US-focused. Add local authorities and market sources for other countries.

Sources: About Canary Media, newsletters, three-grid transmission example.

4. pv magazine

Best for: Solar markets, projects, manufacturing, policy, supply chains, and technology.

Why it earns a place: Its global and regional editions add solar project and market detail that broad power publications compress. Coverage of European solar-generation records shows its cross-border view.

Access: Public articles and a daily newsletter sit alongside paid print, archive, and exclusive products.

Boundary: Solar is the organizing subject. Pair it with POWER or Utility Dive when grid operations, generation beyond solar, or utility regulation matters. Choose the edition closest to the market you follow.

Sources: About pv magazine, newsletter, European solar example.

5. Energy-Storage.news

Best for: Battery projects, financing, market structures, suppliers, policy, and storage technology.

Why it earns a place: Its sections cover grid-scale, distributed, and off-grid storage, plus market analysis, software, materials, and production. Current coverage spans several major storage markets.

Access: Some news is public and some requires a free Basic account. Newsletters are available, while deeper analysis and interviews sit in the paid Premium product.

Boundary: Check the content label and confirm project capacity, financing, and technical claims in company disclosures or filings.

Sources: Energy-Storage.news, newsletter, Premium access.

6. EIA Today in Energy

Best for: Clear explanations of US energy statistics, trends, and newly released reports.

Why it earns a place: This US Energy Information Administration publication turns data into short announcements, in-brief analyses, and longer explainers. Its role here is to supply US data context for power and clean-energy headlines.

Access: Public, with email and RSS subscriptions.

Boundary: Dailyn availability applies to Today in Energy. It does not imply ingestion of every EIA dataset, dashboard, API, or report. Check each article's period, unit, model, and revision notes.

Sources: About Today in Energy, Today in Energy.

Starter combinations that avoid unnecessary overlap

Start with the two or three roles closest to the decisions you make:

• US utility and grid brief: Utility Dive + POWER + EIA Today in Energy. This combines current utility reporting, engineering context, and official data explanation.
• US clean-energy strategy: Canary Media + Utility Dive + EIA Today in Energy. Canary adds transition and deployment depth; Utility Dive adds the utility and regulatory angle.
• Solar development or investment: pv magazine + Utility Dive for the United States, or pv magazine + POWER for a broader project and engineering view.
• Battery storage: Energy-Storage.news + Utility Dive for US policy and utility context, or Energy-Storage.news + Canary Media for transition and deployment context.
• International solar and storage: pv magazine + Energy-Storage.news + POWER. Add the relevant local regulator, system operator, and government source outside this six-source set.

For manual reading, these combinations keep the routine small. In Dailyn, all six can be selected while the digest stays finite. Our guide to tracking an industry without the noise explains how to control overlap.

What this six-source set does not cover

This portfolio is deliberately narrow. It does not provide comprehensive oil and gas reporting, commodity trading data, every regional power market, binding regulatory documents, company filings, or local permitting decisions. It also cannot guarantee that a material event will appear in a digest.

Add the relevant regulator, system operator, energy ministry, exchange, company filing, or specialist publication when those sources control the decision. For high-stakes work, use the six publications for discovery and context, then verify the material fact in the primary document.

Set up the energy digest in Dailyn, review the proposed source mix, and adjust it after the first output.