• Axios: Trump’s coal plan mixes new market and old hurdles
• New York Times: Trump’s coal plan mixes new market and old hurdles
• Reuters: Schwarzenegger at Vatican in mission to ‘terminate’ fossil fuels
• Bloomberg: Big Take: How AI Is Driving Up Americans’ Power Bills
• Financial Times: Solar shines in the rush for power in Africa’s largest petrostate
• PV-Tech: Waaree dismisses US tariff evasion allegations, ‘actively working’ with CBP
• Solar Power World: Spruce Power lays off 40 people, closes Colorado office
• Canary Media: Carrier wants to pair batteries with air conditioners to help the grid
• PV-Magazine: Voltage Energy releases two wiring solutions for solar projects

Opinion

• Politico: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

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• Bloomberg: Solar Firm Pine Gate Preparing for Potential Bankruptcy Filing
• New York Times: Why Don’t Data Centers Use More Green Energy?
• Axios: Data centers should be ready to bring their own power, Wright says
• UTility Dive: This week in 5 numbers: Rising demand, rising rates
• Reuters: Trump’s energy pivot accelerates US solar and wind power mergers, asset sales
• Builder Magazine: Boviet expands solar module production capacity to 3 GW in N.C.
• PV-Tech: ‘100-year-old grids’ are ‘bottleneck’ to solar-plus-storage growth, Global Solar Council says
• PV-Magazine: U.S. grid-scale storage leaps 63%, residential storage 132%

Opinion

• Canary Media: Can climate comedy still work? This offshore wind ad suggests it can.

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• Washington Post: Why the White House is abandoning solar
• Utility Dive: 2.1-GW SOO Green transmission project advances with Iowa agreement
• Bloomberg: US in Talks With States Over Offshore Wind Dispute, Group Says
• New York Times: What World Leaders Told Us About Trump, China and Climate Change
• Reuters: China leads nations with new climate plans, defying US climate denial
• PV-Tech: Enel issues US$4.5 billion bond, says it ‘no longer needs’ sustainability financing
• Solar Power World: Dimension Energy cuts ribbon on 3.12-MW rooftop community solar project in NJ
• Energy Storage News: Poland ‘lacks precise development regulations and a clear long-term plan for energy storage’
• Canary Media: Virtual power plants may soon provide more electricity to Illinois’ grid
• PV-Magazine: Bankrupt residential solar loan provider Mosaic to be acquired

Opinion

• Axios: Exclusive – Tom Steyer says Trump won’t derail energy transition

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The Climate Week. I must confess, I have never been to New York Climate Week. Not because I have not wanted but because I really have no idea what to do, where to go and how to take in what seems like great events (after the fact). What’s your guide to NYCW? 

• Bloomberg: Bloomberg Green’s Guide to Climate Week NYC
• Solar Power World: Clean energy jobs grew 3x faster than rest of U.S. economy in 2024
• Canary Media: Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in Texas
• Reuters: Trump policies threaten US clean energy jobs engine, report says
• Utility Dive: Residential electricity rates up 6.6% over last year as gas prices rise
• PV-Tech: Canada forecast to add up to 26GW of solar PV by 2035
• PV-Magazine: A tightened U.S. solar trade environment

Opinion

• Yale Climate: Bill McKibben says cheap solar could topple Big Oil’s power

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