Welcome
to a new week! Mittens,
a 16-year-old cat who was recently
adopted after being hit by a car,
will get to rest easy this summer.
That’s because the feline’s
Boston-based owner partnered with
other residents to buy
all-electric heat pumps at a
discounted bulk rate, Alison F.
Takemura reports — a type of
collaboration that’s taking off
across the U.S.
More
clean progress is happening out in
California, where a
first-of-its-kind battery storage
project has joined the grid, Julian
Spector reports. The
Tumbleweed project is midsize but
mighty, as it’s able to discharge
power for eight hours — twice as
long as a typical array.
Meanwhile,
New York City just plugged into
tons of clean hydropower — though
questions remain about whether
drought-stricken Quebec can
actually spare the electricity. I’ve got
that story. And circling
back to Massachusetts, Jordan
Wolman reports on the
state’s lagging EV charger
deployment.
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CLEAN
ENERGY
- A
federal court strikes down IRS
rules and restores a
long-standing method for wind
and solar developers to "safe
harbor" their projects and
qualify for expiring tax credits
by investing at least 5% of the
project's total cost. (Crux
Climate)
- The
Government Accountability Office
finds that the DOE may have
broken the law by allocating
four times more money to
geothermal projects than
Congress appropriated while
slashing funding for other
renewables. (Latitude
Media)
EMISSIONS
- The
most recent auction of the East
Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas
Initiative results in
lower-than-expected prices for
carbon allowances, despite fears
about Virginia’s pending reentry
to the cap-and-trade program
jacking up prices due to the
state’s data centers and lack of
renewable energy development. (E&E
News)
SOLAR
- Connecticut’s
governor signs a sweeping bill
that legalizes balcony solar
installations, requires
automated residential solar
permitting, and establishes a
revamped community solar program
while placing a moratorium on
certain kinds of large-scale
solar development. (PV
Magazine)
WIND
- Apex
Clean Energy celebrates ongoing
construction on Virginia’s first
wind farm after years of delay,
with operations set to begin by
the end of the year. (Roanoke
Times, WVTF)
DATA
CENTERS
-
State
legislators in Pennsylvania
and Delaware introduce bills
that would require data center
developers to build or buy
their own power supply to keep
them from racking up charges
for residential customers. (Pennsylvania
Capital-Star, Spotlight
Delaware)
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Leaders
at Google, Meta, and other
tech companies push back
against Midwestern utilities’
efforts to end competitive
bidding for transmission
projects that will feed data
centers, saying competition keeps
prices in check. (E&E
News)
ELECTRIFICATION
- The
EU proposes bloc-wide targets
for deploying smart meters that
can help prevent power grid
strain and lower bills as more
electric appliances and cars
come online. (E&E
News)
FOSSIL
FUELS
- California
lawmakers push back on the Trump
administration’s planned $75
million subsidy for a
long-delayed coal export
terminal in Oakland, saying the
project would harm air and water
quality and increase electricity
costs. (Bay
City News)
- Data
show independent firms are
ramping up oil and gas drilling
in the Permian Basin, but
analysts say the resulting
production boost won’t bring
down oil prices. (E&E
News)
UTILITIES
- A
grand jury reindicts
FirstEnergy’s former CEO and a
former lobbyist on a combined 22
criminal counts after their
previous prosecutions in a
long-running Ohio bribery case
ended in a mistrial. (Associated
Press)
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