This is your SolarWakeup for July 15th 2025
Opinion
News
1 New York Times:
Energy Department to Gut Funding for Solar and Wind Projects
2 Wall Street Journal:
The Wall Street Machine for Financing Rooftop Solar Is Seizing Up
3 Utility Dive:
Data center activity ‘exploded’ in Texas, spiking reliability risks
4 Reuters:
US opens national security probes into imported drones, polysilicon
5 Axios:
How the new budget law will slow clean energy deployments
6 Politico:
DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear
7 PV-Tech:
US solar and wind to be 100GW lower by 2030 without tax credits – WoodMac
8 Energy Storage News:
Canada
9 Canary Media:
A cheat sheet to clean-energy tax credit changes under Trump’s new law
Opinions:
10 PV-Magazine:
One Big Beautiful Bill is anti-solar
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 11th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Utility Dive:
Solar generation expected to rise by a third this summer
2 Bloomberg:
French Power Prices Go Negative With Solar Output at Record
3 Reuters:
Trump calls wind, solar bad for power grid. Texas shows otherwise
4 PV-Magazine:
Solar is 77.7% of new capacity added to U.S. grid in 2025
5 New York Times:
Trump May Not Be Done Overhauling Renewable Energy
6 Solar Power World:
Omnidian in the running to buy Sunnova’s solar service platform
7 Axios:
Trump announces 50% tariff on copper from Aug. 1
8 PV-Tech:
BayWa r.e. secures US$3.5 billion in funds to build its renewables portfolio
9 Energy Storage News:
India has held tenders for 171GWh of energy storage capacity since 2018
10 Canary Media:
States, enviro groups fight Trump plan to keep dirty power plants going
Opinions:
11 Solar Builder:
Solar Stress Test
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 10th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Utility Dive:
There aren’t enough AI chips to support data center projections, report says
2 Reuters:
Trump’s big bill shrinks America’s energy future
3 Politico:
Senate Finance Chair endorses a second megabill this fall
4 Bloomberg:
Will Trump’s Bill Trigger a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Crunch?
5 Solar Power World:
Chaberton Energy cuts ribbon on 3.2-MW Maryland community solar project
6 PV-Magazine:
Minnesota approves one of its largest single-site solar projects
7 New Yorker:
How Solar Power Is Changing the World
8 Energy Storage News:
US energy storage to ‘retain momentum’ post-reconciliation bill, near-term rush to complete projects
Opinions:
9 Washington Post:
Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy has just begun
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 9th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Axios:
Trump could make it harder to access wind and solar credits
2 Utility Dive:
Load growth, plant retirements could drive 100x increase in blackouts by 2030
3 PV-Magazine:
Navigating FEOC restrictions on energy projects
4 BLoomberg:
Power Firm AES Explores Options Amid Takeover Interest
5 Reuters:
Xi says China's heavy industries must not be 'abandoned'
6 PV-Tech:
Fraunhofer ISE
7 Canary Media:
A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.
Opinions:
8 Euro News:
How solar power helped European grids pass ‘the stress test’ during the recent heatwave
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 8th 2025
Opinion
News
1 New York Times:
Solar Industry Says Senate Plan Would Cede Production to China
2 San Francisco Chronicle:
Like a ‘30% price hike’ - What Trump budget bill could do to California rooftop solar customers
3 Energy Storage News:
FlexGen steps into Powin bankruptcy proceedings as stalking horse bidder
4 UTility Dive:
‘Growing reliability concerns’ top North Carolina regulator’s large load conference
5 Solar Builder:
The history of butyl sealants for solar attachment (and why butyl isn’t magic)
6 Bloomberg:
Sunnova’s Unsecured Creditors Oppose Releasing KKR Over Loan
7 Axios:
Clean energy's political test looms now that Trump bill is law
8 PV-Tech:
Skycorp commits US$150 million to expand PV portfolio
9 PV-Magazine:
Arizona’s largest grid-scale battery is now online
Opinions:
10 Financial Times:
Shift to solar comes at a price for Pakistan’s national grid
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 7th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Reuters:
Clean-energy backers blast US budget bill as a setback
2 New York Times:
The G.O.P. Policy Bill Would Shift U.S. Energy Policy
3 Axios:
EPA places 139 on leave over letter bashing Trump policies
4 Bloomberg:
Indian Solar Photovoltaic Modules Maker Emmvee Files for IPO
5 Utility Dive:
New Jersey seeks 1 GW of transmission-scale storage
6 PV_Tech:
Germany innovation tender ends up four times oversubscribed with €0.0615/kWh average price
7 Energy Storage News:
Vitis Energy and Enertis Applus+ advance Texas BESS projects
8 Canary Media:
N.C. governor vetoes bill that would have delayed clean energy goal
Opinions:
9 PV-Magazine:
The ‘MAGA Solar Act’
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for July 2nd 2025
Opinion
News
1 Bloomberg:
Senate Republicans Seek to Ease Solar and Wind Tax Credit Cutoff
2 Axios:
Trump's clean-energy grenade rattles high-tech industries
3 Reuters:
India renewable power output grows at fastest pace in three years
4 PV-Tech:
Zelestra secures US$282 million financing for 220MW solar-plus-storage plant in Chile
5 Energy Storage News:
US grid-scale BESS market could shrink by almost a third in 2026, Wood Mackenzie says
Opinions:
6 PV-Magazine:
Utility-scale solar developer Arevon secures $600 million portfolio funding
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for June 30th 2025
Opinion
News
1 Washington Post:
Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’
2 Bloomberg:
Trump Tax Bill Hits Senate With GOP Torn by Competing Demands
3 New York Times:
Surprise Tax in G.O.P. Bill Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
5 Rueters:
Senate bill hastens end of wind, solar tax credits and imposes new tax
6 Solar Builder:
Heatwave grid save
7 PV-Tech:
UK government will not sign CfD for 11.5GW Xlinks Morocco-UK interconnector
8 Energy Storage News:
US DOE funds energy storage tech for critical facilities backup and resiliency demonstrations
9 PV-Magazine:
ANSI approves SEIA’s standards on consumer protection, solar operation and maintenance
Opinions:
10 Utility Dive:
FERC’s Christie calls for dispatchable resources after grid operators come ‘close to the edge’
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for June 27th 2025
Opinion
News
2 Utility Dive:
Senate negotiating IRA tax credits, aims to vote on budget bill Friday
3 New York Times:
Nevada Is All In on Solar Power
4 Bloomberg:
The AI Boom Can Give Rooftop Solar a New Pitch
5 Canary Media:
Massachusetts solar incentives bolster industry facing federal cuts
6 Axios:
Climate's out — but chaos is in — as a clean energy driver
7 Reuters:
Canadian funds shelve $6 billion sale of renewables company Cubico, sources say
8 Energy Storage News:
CleanCapital acquires 25MWh US energy storage portfolio from Pacifico
9 PV-Magazine:
Enfinity closes $245 million for its 22 GW solar and storage portfolio
Opinions:
10 PV-Tech:
Western Europe solar irradiance increased by 50% in Spring – Solargis
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for June 26th 2025
Opinion
News
1 New York Times:
Inside a Last-Ditch Battle to Save (or Kill) Clean-Energy Tax Credits
2 Axios:
DOE secretary joins criticism of energy agency's oil forecast
3 Canary Media:
LG opens massive Michigan factory to make LFP batteries for the grid
4 PV-Magazine:
SolarEdge begins shipping U.S.-made batteries from new Utah facility
5 Utility Dive:
Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis
6 Bloomberg:
Battery Storage Is at Risk of a 29% Slump on Trump’s Energy Policy, WoodMac Says
7 PV-Tech:
Emmvee inks US$174 million module supply agreement with KPI Green Energy
8 Solar Power World:
Minority shareholders continue pushback on Hanwha’s takeover bid on REC Silicon
Opinions:
9 Reuters:
Portugal says power outage shows need for EU to help fund grid modernisation
Have a great day!
Yann
