Good
morning! The sun is
only just coming up in California,
and we’ve got two stories from the
state to start your day. The first
comes
from Jeff St. John,
who dives deep into the effort to
overhaul California’s
cap-and-invest program. The carbon
market is essential to meeting
state climate goals, and advocates
say proposed changes would put
those targets out of reach.
The Bay
Area has taken its own stab at
curbing emissions with rules that
would phase out the sale of
gas-fueled water heaters. But as
Alison F. Takemura reports,
regulators are first considering
whether to loosen the standards
for low-income and other
households.
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ELECTRIC
VEHICLES
- Global
sales of electric and plug-in
hybrid vehicles are on track to
hit a record 23 million this
year, the International Energy
Agency estimates, though another
report shows U.S. EV sales
haven’t rebounded since federal
tax credits were rescinded. (IEA,
Clean
Investment Monitor)
UTILITIES
-
Although
NextEra Energy CEO John
Ketchum has doubted offshore
wind’s viability in the past,
he now says his firm feels
“very good” about Dominion
Energy’s offshore wind project
as the companies look to
merge. (Reuters)
-
Congressional
Democrats turn their eyes to
regulating utilities as they
look to fight rising energy
costs. (E&E
News)
FOSSIL
FUELS
- Energy
company Enbridge proposes a
major expansion to a pipeline
that carries natural gas from
New Jersey into Massachusetts,
which will likely ignite more
debate about the Northeast’s
reliance on fossil fuels. (CommonWealth
Beacon)
- South
Carolina regulators approve a $5
billion, 2.2-GW gas-fired power
plant to be jointly built by
Dominion Energy and state-owned
utility Santee Cooper at a
former coal plant. (South
Carolina Daily Gazette)
CLEAN
ENERGY
- U.S.
corporations will buy a record
amount of clean energy this year
as they look to meet rising
demand and capitalize on
expiring tax credits, according
to the Corporate Energy Buyers
Association. (report)
GRID
- Lower-than-expected
demand from data centers is
helping reduce the risk of power
outages this summer, though
reliability risks are increasing
in other seasons, according to
the North American grid
watchdog. (E&E
News)
- Grid
operator ISO New England
forecasts that small-scale,
behind-the-meter energy storage
systems will slightly reduce
summer demand peaks by 2035. (Utility
Dive)
- Grid
operator PJM Interconnection
gets federal permission to
curtail power to data centers
and other large loads in its
13-state region as hot weather
and planned power plant outages
threaten to strain the grid. (Utility
Dive)
ELECTRIFICATION
- Berkeley,
California, implements a rule
aimed at leveraging real estate
transactions to reduce carbon
emissions by requiring home
sellers and buyers to replace
gas appliances with electric
ones as a condition of sale. (Bloomberg)
COAL
ASH
- A
federal appeals court overturns
a lower court’s decision and
allows an environmental group’s
lawsuit to proceed against
Alabama Power’s plan to leave
21.7 million tons of coal ash
sitting in an ecologically
sensitive area. (Inside
Climate News)
GEOTHERMAL
- In
an effort to reduce emissions,
Denver plans to convert a
gas-fired district steam heating
network to an “ambient loop”
system that uses heat pumps to
exchange thermal energy with the
ground and wastewater sources. (NPR)
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