• Bloomberg: EU Sees Electricity Production Doubling by 2050 to Reach Net Zero
• Axios: Non-OPEC countries could boost global supply in 2024
• PV-Tech: Why are US utilities selling their solar businesses?
• PV-Magazine: Distributed solar and storage policy trends
• Renewable Energy World: What are the long-term effects of extreme weather on solar performance?
• Energy Storage News: Sweden’s flexibility market could open up in May, 200MW+ of BESS set to come online in 2024
• Canary Media: New guidance makes EV charging incentives widely available
• Solar Power World: How solar + storage technologies are aiding Hawaii wildfire relief
• Reuters: Policy Watch – Solar Impulse pilot Piccard calls for new narrative to take political heat out of climate action

Opinion

• Utility Dive: America’s aging grid threatens national security. Here are some steps to fix it.

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• PV-Magazine: California unlikely to reach clean energy targets without rooftop solar
• PV-Tech: “Highly valuable” solar driving investors to snap up utility businesses – WoodMac
• Renewable Energy World: FERC accepts MISO’s generator interconnection reforms, rejects MW cap
• Utility Dive: NERC issues 3-year plan for setting reliability standards for wind, solar, storage
• Axios: Why replacing fossil fuels is “a whale of an issue”
• Bloomberg: BlackRock to Invest $500 Million in Canadian Solar Unit
• Reuters: TotalEnergies agrees to acquire battery storage company Kyon Energy
• Energy Storage News: Queensland battery storage programme ‘fundamental to success’ of net zero policies

Opinion

• Canary Media: The big battle brewing over LNG exports

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• PV-Magazine: IRA creates 100,000 clean energy jobs and attracts $110 billion in private investments
• Utility Dive: FERC rejects MISO interconnection queue cap, saying it could be undermined by exemptions
• Canary Media: Long wary of batteries, New York’s now poised to go big on energy storage
• Bloomberg: Solar Firm Expands to Chicago, Vows to Spend $2 Billion in State
• Reuters: Germany set for gas power plant expansion deal this week
• Solar Builder: Connecticut doubles upfront incentive to install home energy storage
• Renewable Energy World: Nearly 200 clean energy projects were announced in 2023, with $64B in private investments

Opinion

• Solar Power World: U.S. solar panel manufacturing claims from Intersolar North America

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• Wall Street Journal: California’s Rooftop Solar Reckoning
• Utility Dive: Extreme weather shows need for dispatchable resources, new transmission – FERC commissioners
• Axios: How Texas’ power grid weathered the latest freeze
• Bloomberg: Europe’s Climate Push Fails to Stem Crisis in Solar Industry
• Reuters: SolarEdge to lay off 16% of workforce to trim operating costs
• Solar Builder: U.S. energy transition to speed forward through 2025
• PV-Tech: CALSSA – California solar industry to face a downward trend in 2024
• Solar Power World: Connecticut increases incentives available to residents installing battery storage
• PV-Magazine: Solar corporate funding hits decade-long high in 2023

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: Texas grid survives, thwarting NIMBYs, and companies turn to ‘greenhushing’ — This Week in Cleantech

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