Ohio’s HB 6. This story is so wild, it’s getting a movie made about it. Hundreds of billions are invested in delivering electrons to consumers and businesses every year, getting that money to flow into the right pockets makes for interesting story telling.

Intersolar Europe. Are you heading to Munich for Intersolar? Care to do a SolarWakeup meetup? Doing a poll to see who’s interested and I’ll set something up if there is enough attendance. 

• Utility Dive: NextEra Energy CEO urges ‘energy pragmatism’ amid rising costs, demand
• PV-Magazine: Solar PPA market remains stable in Q1 2025
• Solar Power World: Trina Storage and FlexGen deploy 371-MWh BESS in Houston
• Bloomberg: Hedge Funds Seek Out Ways to Navigate Trump’s Anti-Climate Agenda
• Politico: Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks
• Axios: A power titan calls transmission key to Trump’s agenda
• Reuters: Europe’s power costs plunge as gas-led heating season ends
• PV-Tech: New Jersey seeks 300MW solar PV, expands community solar programme by 250MW
• Energy Storage News: Strata Clean Energy breaks ground on 150MW/600MWh Arizona BESS
• Canary Media: Ohio’s HB 6 utility scandal gets true-crime treatment in HBO film

Opinion

• New York Times: Can 3,500 Percent Tariffs Protect the U.S. Solar Industry?

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• Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Blackout Renews Pressure to Cancel Grid Contract
• Canary Media: Rising utility bills have Americans worried
• PV-Magazine: Enphase falls short on Q1 revenue, trims margin expectations due to tariffs
• Los Angeles Times: Fight intensifies over bill by former Edison executive to gut rooftop solar credits
• Axios: EPA fires or reassigns hundreds of staffers
• Reuters: German regulator plans to cut 1.5 billion euros of power grid fee costs
• PV-Tech: Germany awards 2.6GW capacity in oversubscribed ground-mount PV auction
• Energy Storage News: Bulgaria finalises €600 million funding for nearly 10GWh of energy storage

Opinion

• Vox: Let’s not panic about AI’s energy use just yet

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• CNBC: Bessent says he expects ‘de-escalation’ in U.S.-China tariff fight in the ‘very near future’
• PV-Tech: US DOC issues steep AD/CVD tariffs on Southeast Asian solar cells
• Politico: White House asked FERC’s Phillips to step down
• PV-Magazine: Solar industry launches platform for grassroots advocacy
• Utility Dive: Climate advocates brace for Trump executive order targeting nonprofits’ tax exempt status
• Bloomberg: India Solar Makers See Opportunities, Risks in Trade Turmoil
• Axios: Pope Francis’ legacy includes call for climate action
• Reuters: US restarts solar, storage permitting but agency gaps hit projects
• Canary Media: Solar recycling startup looks to build $90M facility in Florida

Opinion

• New York Times: Blackouts and the Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Colonial Bargain

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• Associated Press: China dominates solar. Trump tariffs target China. For US solar industry, that means higher costs
• Axios: The Midwest’s data center boom is heating up
• Utility Dive: Trump administration ordered to resume IRA funding
• New York Times: Here’s What to Know About Rare Earth Minerals and Renewable Energy
• Reuters: Rio Tinto partners with Indian firm to explore low-carbon aluminium project
• PV-Tech: Catalyze secures US$85 million in financing for 75MW of distributed solar capacity
• Energy Storage News: American Clean Power report recommends energy storage-friendly market reforms to US grid operators
• Canary Media: Ohio grid disparities leave some areas with older, outage-prone equipment

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: How robotics is reshaping solar module installation

Best, Yann