Here It Comes. PJM’s auction is bad for everyone and it’s worse because we knew this was coming years ago. Reaching the price cap and STILL falling short on capacity is a recipe for consumers that don’t have the desired outcome when they hit their light switch.
Policy 180. After my commentary from last week highlighting Senator Schatz’s disappointment in a clean energy trade association, the association pulled their support from the SPEED Act. But alas, it was too later, as the House passed the bill yesterday.
- Canary Media: PJM’s capacity costs hit record as grid falls short on supply
- Reuters: US House passes bill to speed permitting for big energy projects
- Politico: Clean energy industry group pulls support for permitting bill after GOP changes
- Utility Dive: Court agrees to rehear $14B climate funding freeze case
- Bloomberg: California Cuts PG&E’s and Edison’s Profits for Grid Investments
- Axios: America’s data center growth hot spots, mapped
- PV-Tech: T1 Energy begins construction at 2.1GW TOPCon cell manufacturing facility in Texas
- Solar Power World: Environmental and renewable energy groups sue IRS, Treasury
- PV-Magazine: Machine learning models identify hidden physical defects in solar arrays
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Best, Yann