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OpinionA new Colorado law makes it a top site for clean hydrogen developers, but it’s not a model for federal rules
We do not advocate that the U.S. Treasury adopt Colorado’s approach. Rather, it should base its decision on careful economic analysis and phase in more rigorous GHG accounting over time.
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No ‘silver bullet’: Report lays out fixes for interconnection delays plaguing US renewables and storage
“The wait to interconnect is so long that many projects drop out and never end up being built,” said Todd Olinsky-Paul, senior project director at Clean Energy Group.
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House fails to overturn Biden’s veto on congressional resolution to end Southeast Asia solar panel tariff pause
The measure returned to the House and passed 214 to 205, falling short of the two-thirds margin needed for a veto override.
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PG&E, BMW expand managed charging partnership to focus on V2X technologies
Pacific Gas and Electric wants to use electric vehicles in virtual power plants to help meet peak demand using only renewable energy.
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Energy Department cancels $200M Microvast battery grant
Republican lawmakers accused the Houston-area battery maker of having ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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US electrical steel shortage threatens energy transition, recovery from power outages, groups warn Biden
Electric utilities and other stakeholders have asked President Joe Biden to convene an “Electrical Steel Summit” with manufacturers to address the “supply chain crisis.”
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Energy permitting reform divides environmental, clean energy groups as it remains in debt limit talks
While three clean energy trade groups wrote to House and Senate leaders May 22 urging bipartisan transmission permitting legislation, some NGOs say easing energy permitting could undermine environmental goals.
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OpinionThe generators who cry ‘wolf’: How competitive wholesale markets handle generator bankruptcy
Generators with competitive operating costs that enter bankruptcy have every incentive to remain in business and to produce as much energy as they can whenever they can earn more than their variable costs.
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California’s ‘zonal’ approach could revamp clean energy planning, shrink interconnection queue: experts
The strategy is part of the California Independent System Operator’s latest transmission plan, which calls for 45 projects estimated to cost $7.3 billion.
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Mass. agency dismisses 2 battery storage projects, citing lack of legal clarity over ‘generating facility’
“As a matter of physics, batteries do not actually store electrical energy,” the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board said.
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Federal judge dismisses whale case, upholds permits for offshore Vineyard Wind project
Judge Indira Talwani found the case brought against the offshore wind project lacked merit because evidence indicated that it is “unlikely to cause the death of any right whale.”
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DOE funds $87M of EV projects from GM, Deere, others; details additional $99.5M opportunity
The largest award went to General Motors: $7.5 million to develop a new kind of multilevel inverter integrated electric drive system.
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DOE earmarks nearly $42M to produce, store and deploy clean hydrogen
The funding is intended to address “some of our hardest to decarbonize sectors — heavy transportation and industry,” said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
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BOEM completes environmental analysis for Ocean Wind 1 offshore New Jersey
The project could add up to 1.4 GW capacity to the grid if fully approved, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said.
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Enel chooses Oklahoma as home of first US solar panel factory
The more than $1 billion project will have up to 3 GW of production capacity by 2025, with the possibility of a future expansion to 6 GW.
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Oklo announces plans for 2 nuclear plants in Ohio area touted as prime real estate for advanced reactors
The probability of “any significant unknowns relative to the site is extremely small,” said a 2017 report to the U.S. Department of Energy, referring to its past industrial use.
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As Texas eyes new gas power plants, ‘probably the most important bill for grid reliability is effectively dead’
The likely failure of a bill to expand energy savings targets for investor-owned utilities is a “significant disappointment,” said Cyrus Reed, conservation director of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter.
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PJM interconnection delays threaten state renewable energy goals: NRDC report
Some states could fall short of their renewable energy goals as projects become mired in lengthy interconnection queues at PJM, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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DOE pilots information-sharing effort with private industry to bolster energy sector cybersecurity
Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy testified how sector agencies are responding to rising threats.
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Collecting data to support energy-burdened communities poses unique challenges, experts say
Census data isn’t collected often enough to reflect neighborhood demographic shifts, while asking communities to self-report can present additional burdens, panelists said at a Wednesday clean energy summit.
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FERC summer reliability assessment finds bright spots: low gas prices, reduced drought, more generation
“There's some good news here,” Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Acting Chairman Willie Phillips said Thursday. “I think we're seeing things trending in the right direction over last year.”
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MISO capacity prices plunge over 93% as generation comes online, demand dips in first seasonal auction
Capacity prices fell to $2/MW-day to $15/MW-day depending on the season from $236.66/MW-day a year ago across the grid operator’s central and northern regions.
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Exelon, other generators urge PJM to reject proposal to reduce ‘capacity performance’ penalties
The proposal would undermine reliability when more frequent extreme weather and falling capacity margins make it more important for resources to meet their capacity commitments, the companies said.
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OpinionRTOs may be ‘sick’ but weren’t designed to manage a huge transition of US generation. Here’s how to help.
RTOs provide great value in operating the electric system every day, but they struggle with their role in the massive undertaking and challenge of managing a wholesale overhaul of that system.
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How a federal program meant to help communities buy zero-emission buses instead favors fossil fuels: report
A legal requirement added to the Federal Transit Administration program in 2015 led to the disparity, advocacy organization Transportation for America said.
