• PV-Magazine: Republican Congress members support retaining clean energy tax credits
• Solar Power World: Solar Battle of the Bands returns to Intersolar next month
• Bloomberg: AI’s $100 Billion Stargate Venture Touted by Trump Will Tap Solar Power
• Utility Dive: State utility regulators, 4 governors urge FERC to lower PJM capacity price cap
• New York Times: The Dissonance of Climate Promises at Davos
• Reuters: US clean power groups turn to longer deals to finance growth
• PV-Tech: Report: Texas counties can receive US$18.8 million in tax revenue from a 100MW solar project
• Energy Storage News: FlexGen secures US$75 million financing, focuses on increasing bankability
• Canary Media: Illinois considers state incentives for transmission projects

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: A solar trade group is ‘deeply disappointed’ in New York’s latest budget proposal. Here’s what it wants

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• Utility Dive: Trump taps Mark Christie to lead FERC, replacing Willie Phillips
• Bloomberg: China Solar Firms Face a Year of Reckoning as Losses Mount
• New York Times: Trump Says He Intends to Impose 10% Tariffs on Chinese Imports on Feb. 1
• Reuters: Australian government pledges $1.24 billion in green aluminium push
• Renewable Energy World: Treasury issued new domestic content bonus guidance just before Biden’s exit
• Energy Storage News: Modo: 16.8GW of large-scale battery storage to come online in Australia’s NEM by 2027
• Canary Media: Trump freezes Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure-law funding
• PV-Magazine: S&P Global: Annual battery cell production passes 10 billion, lower prices to stimulate demand

Opinion

• PV-Tech: What Trump’s executive orders mean for US solar PV

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• Axios: Day 1: Trump to declare “emergency” in burst of energy orders
• New York Times: Trump Promises Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and Paves Way for Further Trade Action
• Reuters: Trump withdraws from Paris climate agreement, again
• BLoomberg: France’s 2024 Power Grid Was 95% Fossil Free as Nuclear, Renewables Jumped
• PV-Tech: PV downturn laid bare in Chinese preliminary 2024 financials
• Solar Builder: Palmetto raises over $1.2 billion to back LightReach financing
• Renewable Energy World: Doug Burgum, Trump’s pick for public lands boss, questions reliability of renewable power
• Energy Storage News: UK government considering non-firm grid access for energy storage as part of REMA
• Canary Media: Chart: EV sales grew slowly in 2024 — but still set new records

Opinion

• Utility Dive: The 47th presidency offers hope for permitting reform

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• Bloomberg: Giant Batteries Are Transforming the World’s Electrical Grids
• Reuters: Trump upended trade once, aims to do so again with new tariffs
• Energy Storage News: Fire at Moss Landing plant in California
• Utility Dive: FERC approves SPP’s Markets+ Western power market, plus 3 other open meeting takeaways
• Axios: Fed pulls out of global climate change group before Trump inauguration
• ABC News: Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work
• PV-Tech: US attorneys urge leaders to safeguard IRA ahead of Trump inauguration
• Solar Power World: 2025 solar, storage and electrification predictions
• Canary Media: Without enough utility power, California EV-truck depots try microgrids
• PV-Magazine: Energy Department closes $1.2 billion in loans to Puerto Rico power producers

Opinion

• New York Times: As the World Warms, Davos Braces for Political Drama

Best, Yann