Good
morning! Canary
Media’s Northeast crew is at it
again with two fresh success
stories out of the region.
First, Maria
Gallucci takes us deep into
the ground beneath a Manhattan
building, where geothermal energy
piles are currently collecting
heat from the 16 stories above and
dumping it back into the earth to
keep offices cool.
From the
busy New York City streets we head
to Martha’s Vineyard, where a new
solar system will help hundreds of
hospital workers and lower-income
residents save on their energy
bills. Sarah
Shemkus has the story.
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HYDROGEN
- Air
Products cancels its plans to
build a $4.5 billion hydrogen
project in Ascension County,
Louisiana, which aimed to
produce hydrogen using natural
gas and capture the resulting
emissions. (Baton
Rouge Business Report)
FINANCE
-
Private
equity firm KKR will buy EDF
Power Solutions’ renewable
energy arms in the U.S. and
Canada for $4.2 billion. (Reuters)
-
Bloom
Energy and Brookfield expand a
partnership that will see
Brookfield use Bloom fuel cell
technology to meet AI power
demand. (Reuters)
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A
year after the One Big
Beautiful Bill became law,
many clean energy tax credit
marketplaces have shut down,
but the overall
transferability market still
expanded from $28 billion in
2024 to $42 billion last year.
(Latitude
Media)
DATA
CENTERS
- Google’s
greenhouse gas emissions rose to
record heights last year as the
company’s clean energy
investments failed to keep up
with its rapid expansion of AI
infrastructure. (Axios)
HEAT
WAVE
- Ahead
of high temperatures hitting the
eastern U.S. this week, grid
operator PJM gets federal
approval to make data centers
and other large loads use backup
generators and require power
plants to operate even if they
exceed pollution limits. (Maryland
Matters)
CLEAN
ENERGY
- University
of Hawai’i researchers find
developing more utility-scale
solar-plus-storage rather than a
new natural gas plant will save
the state’s utility ratepayers
billions of dollars and smooth
the transition to 100% renewable
energy. (Honolulu
Civil Beat)
- Misinformation
about solar farms’ impacts on
health, safety, and property
values that spread throughout
Louisiana’s Iberia Parish led
local leaders to establish a
moratorium and then setback
rules for large-scale solar
projects — the latter of which
effectively killed a large-scale
solar project. (The
Lens)
- A
coalition of 79 local
governments in Michigan asks the
state Supreme Court to consider
their case challenging a state
law that allows renewable energy
developers to bypass local
approval and seek state
authorization for projects. (MLive)
BUILDINGS
- A
federal appeals court upholds a
New York City law effectively
banning natural gas appliances
in most new buildings. (E&E
News)
- The
University of Oregon plans to
replace its natural gas boiler
with an electric one, saying the
appliance is the largest single
source of greenhouse gases in
the city of Eugene. (OPB)
COAL
- A
new report from Ohio consumer
advocates questions policies
that keep aging coal plants
online, saying they increase
prices short term, and in the
longer term discourage
investment in cheaper and more
efficient alternatives. (Ohio
Capital Journal)
NUCLEAR
- Industry
observers say the U.S. Energy
Department’s Reactor Pilot
Program is paying off as small
nuclear reactors reach
criticality in Utah and Idaho. (NPR)
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