• New York Times: Energy Department to Gut Funding for Solar and Wind Projects
• Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Machine for Financing Rooftop Solar Is Seizing Up
• Utility Dive: Data center activity ‘exploded’ in Texas, spiking reliability risks: monitor
• Reuters: US opens national security probes into imported drones, polysilicon
• Axios: How the new budget law will slow clean energy deployments
• Politico: DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear
• PV-Tech: US solar and wind to be 100GW lower by 2030 without tax credits – WoodMac
• Energy Storage News: Canada: Ontario IESO seeks 1.6GW energy storage in adjusted procurement process
• Canary Media: A cheat sheet to clean-energy tax credit changes under Trump’s new law

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: One Big Beautiful Bill is anti-solar: An industry reacts

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• Utility Dive: Solar generation expected to rise by a third this summer: EIA
• Bloomberg: French Power Prices Go Negative With Solar Output at Record
• Reuters: Trump calls wind, solar bad for power grid. Texas shows otherwise
• PV-Magazine: Solar is 77.7% of new capacity added to U.S. grid in 2025
• New York Times: Trump May Not Be Done Overhauling Renewable Energy
• Solar Power World: Omnidian in the running to buy Sunnova’s solar service platform
• Axios: Trump announces 50% tariff on copper from Aug. 1
• PV-Tech: BayWa r.e. secures US$3.5 billion in funds to build its renewables portfolio
• Energy Storage News: India has held tenders for 171GWh of energy storage capacity since 2018
• Canary Media: States, enviro groups fight Trump plan to keep dirty power plants going

Opinion

• Solar Builder: Solar Stress Test: Reliability gaps widen in latest PV module testing

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• Utility Dive: There aren’t enough AI chips to support data center projections, report says
• Reuters: Trump’s big bill shrinks America’s energy future
• Politico: Senate Finance Chair endorses a second megabill this fall
• Bloomberg: Will Trump’s Bill Trigger a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Crunch?
• Solar Power World: Chaberton Energy cuts ribbon on 3.2-MW Maryland community solar project
• PV-Magazine: Minnesota approves one of its largest single-site solar projects
• New Yorker: How Solar Power Is Changing the World
• Energy Storage News: US energy storage to ‘retain momentum’ post-reconciliation bill, near-term rush to complete projects

Opinion

• Washington Post: Trump’s crackdown on renewable energy has just begun

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• Axios: Trump could make it harder to access wind and solar credits
• Utility Dive: Load growth, plant retirements could drive 100x increase in blackouts by 2030: DOE
• PV-Magazine: Navigating FEOC restrictions on energy projects
• BLoomberg: Power Firm AES Explores Options Amid Takeover Interest
• Reuters: Xi says China’s heavy industries must not be ‘abandoned’
• PV-Tech: Fraunhofer ISE: Germany could add at least 500GW of agrivoltaics capacity
• Canary Media: A heat wave hit New England’s grid. Clean energy saved the day.

Opinion

• Euro News: How solar power helped European grids pass ‘the stress test’ during the recent heatwave

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