• PV-Magazine: California’s solar market is now a battery market
• Bloomberg: Biden Urged to Invoke Cold-War Powers to Blunt Energy Price Hike
• New York Times: Frustrated With Utilities, Some Californians Are Leaving the Grid
• Canary Media: Chart – How much oil does the US actually import from Russia?
• Utility Dive: California prepares for $10.5M port renovations for offshore wind development
• Axios: Power restored to Chernobyl nuclear plant, Ukraine energy minister says
• Solar Power World: Balance of systems manufacturer Shoals opens Tennessee factory
• Energy Storage News: Energy Dome scores first licensing agreement for CO2 battery

Opinion

• Mother Jones: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine May Become a Defining Moment in US Dependence on Fossil Fuels

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• New York Times: As War Rages, a Struggle to Balance Energy Crunch and Climate Crisis
• Politico: Senate gives final OK to $1.5T government funding bill
• Utility Dive: Total ISO-NE capacity revenue falls 25% to $1B in latest auction
• Bloomberg: Seeing the Future of Energy Through a Coal Company’s Solar Strategy
• Axios: The good news on soaring energy prices
• Reuters: Exclusive-Norway’s Equinor halts trading Russian oil – CEO
• Solar Power World: Commerce gives itself more time to consider solar anticircumvention petition
• PV-Magazine: Without federal support, US would only reach 39% of carbon-free energy sector by 2035, said Wood Mackenzie

Opinion

• Energy Storage News: How other states can replicate California and Texas’ storage successes

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• Mercury News: Working with Walton – What it’s like to broadcast a game alongside the popular, polarizing Pac-12 TV analyst
• Axios: The EU’s big energy moves show a new order is quickly emerging
• Bloomberg: KKR in Talks to Invest in French Renewable Energy Firm Albioma
• Vox: California wants to use electric cars to back up the power grid
• Solar Power World: Market report estimates 11-GW decrease in near-term solar installations
• Energy Storage News: The three things the US needs to catch up with Europe’s battery gigafactory charge
• Canary Media: Goldman Sachs and Shell bet $75M that chain stores can boost grid resiliency
• PV-Magazine: In 2021 renewable energy use reached an all-time high, but so did CO2 emissions

Opinion

• Utility Dive: Republicans use EV hearing to knock Biden’s clean energy policy as US bans oil and gas imports from Russia

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• Washington Post: The largest remaining tall-grass prairie in Texas is getting solar panels. Environmentalists can’t stop it.
• Utility Dive: Florida passes net metering bill that will gut rooftop solar, advocates say, as they call for a veto
• Bloomberg: Energy Crunch Spurs ‘Insane’ Rush for Industrial Rooftop Solar
• Axios: Biden on Russian oil import ban: “We will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war”
• Reuters: EU rolls out plan to cut Russia gas dependency this year
• PV-Tech: Sonnedix acquires Sun Power Energy, taking on 1GW Poland pipeline
• Solar Power World: PG&E wants to use GM electric vehicles as on-demand power sources for customer homes
• PV-Magazine: Plans announced for a US lithium-ferro-phosphate battery gigafactory network
• Energy Storage News: UK’s Gore Street makes first investment into German battery storage

Opinion

• Canary Media: GM and PG&E to test how EVs can power homes during blackouts

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