Head Down And Call The Senate. There’s a lot going on in DC but let me reset your mind on the simple task at hand. Call, advocate and lobby your US Senators. They have the bill in their chambers and have the power to make the changes you want to see. The rest is noise that you can’t control. 

• Bloomberg: Elon Musk Aims to ‘Kill’ Trump Tax Bill as He Fails to Save EV Credits
• NBC News: Trump and Xi agree to new in-person meeting after phone call amid trade tensions
• Los Angeles Times: California broke law in cutting rooftop solar incentives, state Supreme Court is told
• PV-Magazine: California’s rooftop solar regulatory war wages on
• Utility Dive: Does PJM have a data center problem?
• Axios: Global clean-energy investment doubles fossil fuels
• Reuters: Sunnova Energy to lay off 718 employees
• Solar Power World: Republican senator pens op-ed seeking more measured approach to IRA changes
• Energy Storage News: US broke quarterly utility-scale BESS deployment records again in Q1 2025, ACP says

Opinion

• New York Times: In Puerto Rico, a Struggle for Power Comes to Light

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• Deseret News: Opinion – Tax credits with a scalpel — how to boost American energy without killing innovation
• New York Times: Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
• Utility Dive: House budget bill would kill 330K solar, storage jobs: SEIA
• BLoomberg: The Missing Engineers
• Axios: What to know about rare earths in the China-U.S. trade dispute
• Reuters: Five charts on key US electricity and power generation trends
• Solar Power World: Crux tax credit marketplace releases first annual report on clean energy investment dynamics
• Energy Storage News: US import tariff analysis spells out extent of challenge facing US battery storage industry
• Canary Media: Massachusetts grid breakthrough could benefit customers while boosting solar
• PV-Magazine: Automated solar permitting bill sails through New Jersey Assembly

Opinion

• Solar Builder: Future of residential solar at risk: A candid talk with Freedom Forever

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• BloomBerg: Senate Begins Putting Its Stamp on Giant Trump Tax, Debt Limit Bill
• Financial Times: Chinese battery glut plugs into solar boom to power Pakistan
• PV-Magazine: Leading threat to farmland is real estate development, not solar, agricultural analysts say
• Reuters: Azerbaijan, BP sign agreements on solar power plant in Karabakh
• PV-Tech: National Grid Renewables rebrands to Geronimo Power
• Energy Storage News: Powin could cease operations by end of July if ‘present business circumstances do not improve’
• Canary Media: In N.C., all eyes on Senator Tillis as IRA tax credits hang in balance
• Utility Dive: Why better monitoring of US transformers is a national security imperative

Opinion

• New York Times: Save Us, Senators, From a Very Expensive Mistake

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• Energy Storage News: Republican Senator praises energy tax credits during visit to Fluence factory in Utah
• Canary Media: The quiet demise of Texas’ anti-renewables legislation
• Utility Dive: California’s solar, wind curtailment jumped 29% in 2024: EIA
• PV-Magazine: Residential loan provider Mosaic issues pause on operations
• Reuters: Swiss solar panel maker Meyer Burger files for insolvency for German subsidiaries
• Axios: Supreme Court narrows key environmental law’s scope in 8-0 ruling
• PV-Tech: Waaree Energies secures 586MW US solar module supply deal

Opinion

• Washington Post: Trump is forcing this dirty, costly coal plant to stay open

Best, Yann