• PV-Magazine: California unlikely to reach clean energy targets without rooftop solar
• PV-Tech: “Highly valuable” solar driving investors to snap up utility businesses – WoodMac
• Renewable Energy World: FERC accepts MISO’s generator interconnection reforms, rejects MW cap
• Utility Dive: NERC issues 3-year plan for setting reliability standards for wind, solar, storage
• Axios: Why replacing fossil fuels is “a whale of an issue”
• Bloomberg: BlackRock to Invest $500 Million in Canadian Solar Unit
• Reuters: TotalEnergies agrees to acquire battery storage company Kyon Energy
• Energy Storage News: Queensland battery storage programme ‘fundamental to success’ of net zero policies

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• Canary Media: The big battle brewing over LNG exports

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• PV-Magazine: IRA creates 100,000 clean energy jobs and attracts $110 billion in private investments
• Utility Dive: FERC rejects MISO interconnection queue cap, saying it could be undermined by exemptions
• Canary Media: Long wary of batteries, New York’s now poised to go big on energy storage
• Bloomberg: Solar Firm Expands to Chicago, Vows to Spend $2 Billion in State
• Reuters: Germany set for gas power plant expansion deal this week
• Solar Builder: Connecticut doubles upfront incentive to install home energy storage
• Renewable Energy World: Nearly 200 clean energy projects were announced in 2023, with $64B in private investments

Opinion

• Solar Power World: U.S. solar panel manufacturing claims from Intersolar North America

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• Wall Street Journal: California’s Rooftop Solar Reckoning
• Utility Dive: Extreme weather shows need for dispatchable resources, new transmission – FERC commissioners
• Axios: How Texas’ power grid weathered the latest freeze
• Bloomberg: Europe’s Climate Push Fails to Stem Crisis in Solar Industry
• Reuters: SolarEdge to lay off 16% of workforce to trim operating costs
• Solar Builder: U.S. energy transition to speed forward through 2025
• PV-Tech: CALSSA – California solar industry to face a downward trend in 2024
• Solar Power World: Connecticut increases incentives available to residents installing battery storage
• PV-Magazine: Solar corporate funding hits decade-long high in 2023

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: Texas grid survives, thwarting NIMBYs, and companies turn to ‘greenhushing’ — This Week in Cleantech

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• Associated Press: The Pentagon will install rooftop solar panels as Biden pushes clean energy in federal buildings
• Utility Dive: BlackRock to buy Global Infrastructure Partners in $12.5B deal, cites clean energy trends
• Axios: U.S. warmup is in sight after one more Arctic blast
• Reuters: German energy regulator plans to cut red tape to aid energy transition
• PV-Tech: US expands Western Solar Plan to five more states
• Renewable Energy World: Americans say they don’t mind utility-scale solar. Why isn’t more getting built?
• Energy Storage News: ‘Highly attractive’ revenues forecast in Australia’s new Very Fast ancillary services opportunity
• Canary Media: Hawaii used rooftop solar to shore up the grid. New rules threaten that
• PV-Magazine: U.S. government identifies 22 million acres for solar in western states

Opinion

• New York Times: Davos puts Climate on the Back Burner

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