Alejandro de la Garza

Alejandro de la Garza is a reporter for TIME in New York City

The rural town of Panton, Vt., is home to GMP's newest effort to remake the electric system: a microgrid attached to a solar power plant, which can distribute its electricity to parts of the nearby community in case they get cut off from the main energy network due to falling trees or heavy snows, common occurrences in this isolated New England town.

This Vermont Utility Is Revolutionizing Its Power Grid to Fight Climate Change. Will the Rest of the Country Follow Suit?

'We have to move faster as an industry'

A view of Turow Power Plant, a thermal condensing power plant with closed cooling water system in Bogatynia.

Global Electricity Production Is Roaring Back—and So Are CO2 Emissions

Power plant emissions are expected to grow by 3.5% in 2021, per a new repor...

Power plant emissions are expected to grow by 3.5% in 2021, per a new report

Lighting strikes over Lake Mead as a storm rolls through the area Tuesday, June 29, 2021.

These Scientists Linked June's Heat Wave to Climate Change in 9 Days. Their Work Could Revolutionize How We Talk About Climate

'There's no point going through this exercise involving dozens of scientist...

'There's no point going through this exercise involving dozens of scientists if it's something that you think no one's going to care about'

Andrew Steven rests at the Oregon Convention Center cooling station in Oregon, Portland on June 28, 2021, as a heatwave moves over much of the United States.

This Week's Heat Wave Is Pushing Businesses and Workers to Their Limit

Portland food cart co-owners Eric and Nicole Gitenstein didn't have much ch...

Portland food cart co-owners Eric and Nicole Gitenstein didn't have much choice about whether to open their business during this week's unprecedented heat wave plaguing the Pacific Northwest. Excess heat from their refrigerators and burners...

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, on June 27, 2021.

How The Extreme Heat in the Pacific Northwest Is Taxing Electric Grids (and People's Air Conditioners)

The extreme heat and massive energy demand in the Pacific Northwest may be ...

The extreme heat and massive energy demand in the Pacific Northwest may be proving out dire predictions of worsening climate problems

A health worker collects a sample for a COVID-19 test at the North Bengal Medical college and hospital on the outskirts of Siliguri on June 8, 2021.

The Delta Variant Could Soon Become the Dominant COVID-19 Strain. Here's What You Need to Know

The more infectious strain threatens to worsen the pandemic around the worl...

The more infectious strain threatens to worsen the pandemic around the world

A street covered in mud, debris and the neighbors' belongings that were swept away by Hurricane Iota flooding in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Nov. 21, 2020.

The Start of Hurricane Season Brings Anxieties to Central America, Still Reeling From Last Year's Disasters

The region is still reeling from the last hurricane season