Wildfire smoke slashed solar power generation

Manhattan’s skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, are barely visible in a thick haze of smoke. Midtown Manhattan buildings are shrouded in smoke from Canadian wildfires on Wednesday, June 7th, 2023.  | Image: Luiz C. Ribeiro / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images

Wildfire smoke curtailed solar power generation when it clouded skies across the US last week. It’s one more example of how climate change is putting more pressure on stressed-out power grids.

Billows of smoke from hundreds of blazes in Canada wafted over huge swaths of the East Coast and Midwest, where it created a record-shattering air qu...

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