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Apr 30, 2026, 11:09:48 AM (yesterday) Apr 30
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Plus: Aluminum smelter still needs power supply, and California bills aim to boost grid utilization  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏  ͏ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­  

30 April 2026


Good morning! The temperature at my house in New York this morning may suggest otherwise, but winter is officially over. That means Massachusetts’ first season of lower electric rates for heat pump owners has ended, and as Sarah Shemkus reports, the program’s success may inspire other states to follow suit.

 

Heading to Oklahoma, Maria Gallucci takes a look at plans to build America’s first new aluminum smelter in decades — and why the project still hasn’t secured the power supply it needs. And in California, Jeff St. John covers two bills that would order major utilities to measure and improve their use of the power grid.

 

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

OFFSHORE WIND

  • Democratic Congress members launch an investigation into the Trump administration’s deal with TotalEnergies to abandon its offshore wind leases. (Associated Press)

SHIPPING

  • The Trump administration is circulating flyers at this week’s International Maritime Organization meeting that contain what one person who’d seen the memo called a “skewed” economic analysis of a global carbon tax on shipping, in an attempt to derail the policy for a second time. (Politico)

INDUSTRY

  • U.S. Steel announces plans to build a direct reduced iron facility at its Big River complex in Arkansas, where the iron will be fed into electric arc furnaces to produce steel. (TribLive)

PERMITTING

  • Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Angus King (I-Maine) tell Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that they won’t vote for permitting reform if they don’t have assurances the Trump administration will follow the law and let permitted renewable energy projects proceed. (Latitude Media)

GRID

  • More than 800 projects totaling 220 GW of generation enter PJM Interconnection’s reopened interconnection queue, with nearly half of that capacity coming from gas. (Utility Dive)
  • The Midcontinent Independent System Operator says it has enough grid resources to meet power demand this coming year, throwing cold water on the Trump administration’s insistence that the region needs to keep retiring coal plants online. (E&E News)

DATA CENTERS

  • Data center operator NTT Data will buy carbon removal credits from Climeworks in an unspecified deal. (Axios)

  • Compass Datacenters pulls out of a massive project in Virginia after a court ruling halted its progress amid heightening opposition. (WJLA)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

  • Chinese EV firm BYD reports a 55% drop in its first quarter profits compared to a year earlier, extending three straight quarters of falling profits as domestic sales slow. (Reuters)

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