Renewables

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    Connecticut and Rhode Island file for injunction to restart Revolution Wind

    The states argue in their motion that Revolution Wind is “real, fully permitted, and nearly complete.”

    By • Sept. 18, 2025
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    Bipartisan House group releases permitting reform ‘framework’

    This and other permitting reform efforts — supported by groups like the Edison Electric Institute — come amid rising electric demand and increasing electricity bills.

    By • Sept. 18, 2025
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    Trendline

    Top 5 Stories from Utility Dive

    Power demand is rising amid dramatic shifts in federal energy policy, but technology and markets continue to push the grid toward cleaner, more distributed resources. 

    By Utility Dive staff
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    Regulators approve demand charge, net metering changes for NV Energy

    Consumer advocates say the changes will worsen energy affordability issues in Nevada and make NV Energy’s solar net metering program less effective for customers.

    By • Sept. 18, 2025
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    Eversource faces financial risk over Trump administration’s offshore wind stop-work order: Fitch

    At the same time, New Hampshire's governor signals that an Eversource Energy utility may face more regulatory challenges.

    By • Sept. 17, 2025
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    CenterPoint Energy courts Minnesota communities for networked geothermal pilot

    The utility is hoping to prove to local governments that such decarbonization efforts can meet residents’ energy needs in a cold-weather climate.

    By Brian Martucci • Sept. 16, 2025
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    Thermal power plants more competitive than clean energy when considering reliability: Vistra CEO

    Even so, in the near term Vistra President and CEO Jim Burke expects solar and batteries to do well because they can be built quickly.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    Tulane University

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    Entergy expects data centers to drive 13% near-term annual sales growth: CEO

    With new gas-fired generation expected, Entergy faces challenges in meeting its 50% carbon reduction goal for 2030, CEO Drew Marsh said.

    By • Sept. 12, 2025
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    Amid policy pressures, clean energy investment is diversifying: Crux

    Data from the first half of this year shows clean energy investment continuing to increase, but changing in shape, said Crux CEO Alfred Johnson.

    By • Sept. 11, 2025
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    ‘Green banks’ petition for rehearing in $14B EPA funding freeze case

    A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 to uphold the EPA’s freeze on Inflation Reduction Act grants, but the plaintiffs have asked for a rehearing from the entire appeals court.

    By • Sept. 11, 2025
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    Complaint over MISO’s $22B transmission portfolio faces widespread opposition

    Granting the complaint from five utility commissions could delay adding power supplies in the Midcontinent region and hurt reliability, according to comments filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

    By • Sept. 10, 2025
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    Solar, storage are booming, but federal policy is driving costs higher: SEIA/WoodMac report

    Residential solar pricing is up 2% year over year, commercial systems are up 10% and utility-scale pricing is up 4%, according to new research.

    By • Sept. 9, 2025
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    RE+ kicks off in Las Vegas under shadow of Trump’s war on renewables

    Technological and market advances have pushed renewable energy toward an ever-larger share of the energy mix despite policy shifts, tariffs and the hostility of the Trump administration, attendees said.

    By • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Clean energy developers hope for clarity in upcoming FEOC guidance

    The foreign entity of concern rules in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are onerous and complicated, with “multiple traps for the unwary,” said Vinson & Elkins tax partner Lauren Collins.

    By • Sept. 8, 2025
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    Fed primed for rate cut as hiring slumps, unemployment inches up to 4.3%

    Traders in interest rate futures, responding to new labor market data, increased the odds that the Fed will cut the benchmark interest rate by at least 0.75 percentage point before next year.

    By Jim Tyson • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Opinion

    Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it

    Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.

    By Amory B. Lovins • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Trump’s FERC nominees pledge agency independence in Senate confirmation hearing

    Nominees Laura Swett and David LaCerte said they support the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s independence and the need to be agnostic on generating technologies.

    By • Sept. 5, 2025
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    This 4-GW renewables joint venture aims to play the long game

    Two European renewable energy firms are teaming up to develop a significant portfolio of wind, solar and energy storage projects in the Western United States.

    By Brian Martucci • Sept. 5, 2025
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    Global solar installations rise 64%, to 380 GW, in first half of 2025

    China led the pack in solar installations, adding 256 GW — more than twice as much solar capacity as the rest of the world combined.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Trump escalates war against offshore wind as Danish developer strikes back

    The administration moved to revoke another offshore wind permit as the developer of a different blocked project filed a lawsuit.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Opinion

    Energy meets urgency: Solving the data center power problem with solar

    For years, data center developers built with confidence that the grid would keep up. That’s no longer the case.

    By Jared Burden • Sept. 4, 2025
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    Solar industry looks to third-party ownership as 25D tax credit winds down

    A third-party ownership structure allows residential solar installers to claim the 48E investment tax credit and pass on those savings to the homeowner.

    By • Sept. 4, 2025
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    With tax credits expiring, a home electrification nonprofit is racing against the clock

    Rewiring America has launched a national campaign to help homeowners take advantage of clean energy and efficiency incentives that will expire soon.

    By • Sept. 3, 2025
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    Trump administration axes $679M in offshore wind infrastructure funding

    “Where possible, funding from these projects will be recompeted to address critical port upgrades and other core infrastructure needs of the United States,” said the Department of Transportation.

    By • Sept. 2, 2025
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    The growing need for EMT modeling for inverter-based resources (IBRs) for system reliability

    With IBRs changing grid dynamics, EMT modeling is key to compliance, reliability, and stakeholder collaboration for a stable, resilient grid.

    By Mariana Kamel, Principal Consultant at EnerNex • Sept. 2, 2025
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    3.5 GW of offshore wind in New England could offset natural gas price spikes: report

    Offshore wind in the region could have offset the surge in natural gas prices last winter and saved ratepayers $400 million, according to a report from Daymark Energy Advisors.

    By • Aug. 28, 2025