Good
morning! We start the
day in Vermont’s Northeast
Kingdom, home to record snowfalls,
mountain biking trails, and, now,
a town torn over solar
development. The state needs more
clean, cheap power, but Lowell
residents — including many who
supported a nearby wind farm — tell
Austyn Gaffney that
the proposed solar array will
destroy an invaluable community
space. Similar debates are playing
out across Vermont, which must
balance decarbonization ambitions
with concerns about preserving its
rural character.
Lowell’s
struggle unfolds as renewable
power generators become more
valuable than ever. Julian
Spector dives into
a new report that shows how
batteries are solving solar and
wind’s fatal flaw: their
intermittency.
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CLEAN
ENERGY
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A
new American Clean Power
Association report expects the
U.S. clean energy
manufacturing industry will
include more than 950
factories supporting 374,000
jobs by 2030, up from 825
plants and 215,000 jobs today.
(report)
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Think
tank Ember finds wind and
solar generated 22% of the
world’s power in April, while
gas was responsible for 20%,
marking the first time the
renewable sources have beat
gas generation over an entire
month. (news
release)
STORAGE
- The
U.S. battery storage industry
installed 9.7 GWh of new
capacity in the first quarter of
the year, up 32% from the same
period in 2025 — an expansion
that shows how grid batteries
are becoming essential to
meeting rising power demand. (E&E
News)
GEOTHERMAL
- Arizona,
Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
announce a partnership aimed at
advancing geothermal energy
production and plan a consortium
of state officials to develop
incentives for the technology. (Utah
News Dispatch)
METALS
- Boston
Metals raises $75 million as it
looks to decarbonize production
of some critical metals, and
will bring its Brazilian plant
back online in September after
an accident shut the facility
down in January. (MIT
Technology Review)
FOSSIL
FUELS
- Republican-led
states say they’ve overcome
early hurdles and are now
successfully tapping a Biden-era
fund to plug and remediate
orphaned oil and gas wells. (E&E
News)
CLIMATE
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The
United Nations adopts a
nonbinding resolution that
directs countries to address
climate change, despite
pushback from the U.S. and
oil-producing nations. (E&E
News)
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A
group of young Americans who
sued the Trump administration
over its repeal of the
endangerment finding files for
an immediate stay on the
rollback’s implementation. (The
Guardian)
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