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EPA sued for terminating $7B Solar for All program
“Instead of distributing the Solar for All funds as Congress directed, Defendants hastily and unlawfully terminated” the program, the plaintiffs allege.
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Sponsored by KrakenModernizing with confidence: the secret to seamless tech migrations
Cut costs, boost CX and migrate without disruption.
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Energy efficiency is reducing Northeast peak demand, electricity bills: Acadia
“It is more important than ever for policymakers, advocates, program administrators, and consumers to understand the value ... of energy efficiency resource acquisition,” said Acadia’s Jamie Dickerson.
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‘Not a good sign’: Weak manufacturing demand continues amid tariff uncertainty
Of the six biggest manufacturing industries, petroleum and coal products were the only sectors that saw growth in September, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s latest Purchasing Managers’ Index.
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OpinionBridging the skills gap and preparing tomorrow’s utility workforce
When veteran field techs understand how their data feeds analytics platforms or how remote inspections can save time, they don’t just adapt — they help optimize those systems, writes Dan Helman, CEO of Think Power Solutions.
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Hydrogen and batteries power ‘first-of-its-kind’ California microgrid
Interest in hydrogen fuel cells has grown as data centers and other large-load customers seek alternatives to diesel generators, said Frank Wolak, president and CEO of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association.
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Minnesota PUC approves $6.2B Allete sale to private equity
The deal with Blackrock’s Global Infrastructure Partners and a Canadian pension fund will bring about $200 million in ratepayer benefits, according to Allete.
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Shareholder earnings shouldn’t be default source for wildfire costs: Brattle
“Utilities are tapped out,” an independent analyst said, but ratepayers’ ability to bear additional costs is also waning — even as settlement costs grow.
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Newsom vetoes energy bills on virtual power plants, load management and interconnection
Trade and environmental advocacy groups said adopting a virtual power plant deployment plan could have saved Californians $750 million a year. The governor vetoed it, citing financial strains on the state energy commission.
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OpinionDistributed energy resources can accelerate data center interconnection
Solutions that help local utilities find or create spare grid capacity by harnessing distributed energy resources could help bring more AI compute capacity online faster.
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Power outages drive supply chain worries: report
Nearly nine out of 10 global executives reported experiencing energy-related disruptions in the last year, a Prologis survey found.
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Government shutdown could delay clean energy guidance, permitting: report
Shutdown plans could become hard to implement as agency staffing levels “are significantly lower than at the beginning of the year,” said sustainable finance company Crux.
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Texas PUC approves Entergy’s 500-kV SETEX transmission project
The Public Utility Commission also selected six projects to receive $381 million from the Texas Energy Fund’s Outside ERCOT Grant Program.
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Utility conferences to watch in 2026
See our annual list of notable power-sector conferences where industry leaders will share knowledge in a rapidly-changing landscape.
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Newsom vetoes bill to codify load flexibility in California grid planning
The governor said the bill does not align with the state’s existing resource adequacy framework. Clean energy advocates called it a missed opportunity.
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Corporate procurement stabilizes renewable energy projects: CEBA
“The primary role of corporate offtake agreements [is] to mitigate the financial risk associated with earning revenue from the variable wholesale electricity market,” the Clean Energy Buyers Association said.
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The week in 5 numbers: DOE slashes clean energy funding following coal ‘investment’
Plus PJM’s data center woes, record storage deployment and new generation additions.
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OpinionIs nuclear the key to powering the data center boom?
To fulfill the promise of an energy renaissance, nuclear resources must overcome complex operational, financial and workforce challenges, writes POWWR Director Nainish Gupta.
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Data centers ‘primary reason’ for high PJM capacity prices: market monitor
Load from data centers drove up revenue in the PJM Interconnection’s last capacity auction by $7.3 billion, said Monitoring Analytics. It said it is “misleading” to say market results simply reflect tightening supply and demand.
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DOE cancels $7.6B in clean energy awards in states that voted against Trump
“Our democracy is badly broken when a president can illegally suspend projects for Blue states in order to punish his political enemies,” said Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
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OpinionState frameworks are critical to addressing PJM affordability
Affordability concerns have risen in the PJM sphere due to “tightening supply and demand,” writes Senior Vice President Asim Haque. Supply has left the system due primarily to state policy and federal rules, he says.
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Shutdown furloughing federal workers imperils business-critical data
Just hours before most U.S. federal agencies closed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it would not release highly anticipated jobs data on Friday.
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World’s carbon-neutral aspirations may hinge on appliance efficiency: CLASP
“There is such a huge disconnect between what our research shows is needed ... and what the U.S. government is saying would be good for the world,” said Ari Reeves, CLASP senior director of research.
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Customers in 7 PJM states paid $4.4B for data center transmission in 2024: report
Transmission lines built for data centers fall into a “regulatory gap,” with utility customers on the hook for the costs, the Union of Concerned Scientists said.
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US added more coal capacity than wind in July: FERC
Coal is still in the negative from January through July, with retirements resulting in an overall loss of 40 MW of capacity, the report said.
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US sees record utility-scale storage deployments, but dropoff looms: report
California, Texas and Arizona accounted for 75% of utility-scale capacity installed during the second quarter, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association.
