• NPR: Puerto Rico hopes solar project will secure electric grid for future hurricanes
• Politico: Newsom says he’ll sign major corporate climate disclosure bill
• Bloomberg: Texas Monitor Says New Grid Rules Raised Costs by $8 Billion
• Axios: How EV worries are helping fuel the historic UAW strike
• Reuters: Exclusive – EU may become as hooked on China batteries as it was on Russian energy
• PV-Tech: US$2.7 trillion annual investment required for global net-zero by 2050
• Energy Storage News: IRA tax equity benefits ‘not yet fully captured’ by US energy storage industry one year on
• Renew Economy: Rooftop solar sends coal to record low, and peaks at nearly half of all grid demand
• Canary Media: Florida is now adding more solar power than any other state

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: How long do residential solar batteries last?

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• Axios: Hurricane Lee churns north, prompts warnings in New England
• Utility Dive: Moody’s warns of potential power price volatility from renewables oversupply
• Bloomberg: Home Power Devices Are Key to Solving US Power Woes, US Energy Official Says
• New York Times: Biden’s Climate Law Is Reshaping Private Investment in the United States
• Reuters: Global climate protests demand world leaders phase out fossil fuels
• PV-Tech: Array Technologies signs two new deals to strengthen domestic supply chain
• Energy Storage News: Germany: 2-hour BESS revenue upside has nearly tripled since 2021
• San Diego Union Tribune: California appeals court will hear lawsuit seeking to overturn rooftop solar decision
• Canary Media: Utilities in New Hampshire unexpectedly back solar net metering

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: Unraveling the IRA’s domestic content rules

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• Energy Storage News: IRA tax equity benefits ‘not yet fully captured’ by US energy storage industry one year on
• Axios: Global climate ambition gets fresh boost, as world lags on Paris Agreement goals
• Reuters: EU Parliament passes bill hiking renewable energy targets
• PV-Tech: Igneo acquires majority stake in Soltage, aims to grow solar portfolio to 1.9GW
• Utility Dive: Taking Charge: Nexamp’s CEO on the ‘existential threat’ of low labor supply and other challenges
• PV-Magazine: Storage, inverters, design tools and more at RE+ 2023
• Renewable Energy World: Nextracker opens new Las Vegas facility for steel solar components

Opinion

• Bloomberg: Chevron Buys Into World’s Biggest Hydrogen-Storage Plant in Utah

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Welcome To Vegas. Like many of you will today, I have arrived in Las Vegas. Beyond the expo and the parties, it’s all about the people and the relationships you get to expand on while we’re in the same room. Congrats to everyone launching new ideas and products this week, these are fun moments.

• Axios: UN – Countries need dramatic course correction to meet Paris climate goals
• Utility Dive: As Google, Meta eye clean energy buys, researchers find widely used strategy has scant carbon benefits
• PV-Magazine: How developers can capitalize on IRA support for community solar financing
• Tampa Bay Times: Florida tops all US states for solar installations so far in 2023
• Solar Power World: Silfab Solar agrees to buy silicon wafers from NorSun’s planned U.S. factory
• New York Times: No Bidders in British Offshore Wind Auction
• Reuters: India makes clean energy push at G20 with global biofuel alliance
• Energy Storage News: Enervenue to mass produce newest ‘30,000 cycle’ metal-hydrogen batteries in Kentucky  

Opinion

• Bloomberg: Climate Hacks Are What the World Needs Now

Best, Yann