• Utility Dive: Texas restoration efforts underway after Hurricane Beryl leaves 2.7M customers without power
• New York Times: A Brand-New Electric Bus, No Charge. (That Was One Problem.)
• Bloomberg: China Releases Draft Rule to Curb Excessive Solar Expansion
• Axios: Sea level rise wipes out an entire U.S. species
• Reuters: US power use forecast to reach record highs in 2024 and 2025, EIA says
• PV-Tech: US manufacturer Toledo Solar ceases operations
• Energy Storage News: Ireland utility-scale energy storage forecast to exceed 1.5GWh in 2025
• Heatmap News: Beryl Narrowly Missed the Gulf’s Energy Heartland
• Canary Media: Biden admin offers $1.2B loan to expand US battery supply chain

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: Louisiana allows firms to buy 500 more MW of renewable power

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• Associated Press: Beryl weakens to tropical depression after slamming into Texas as Category 1 hurricane
• Utility Dive: US electricity prices rise again as AI, onshoring may mean decades of power demand growth – BofA
• Bloomberg: Calpers Allots More Than $1 Billion to Sixth Street For Asset-Based Finance
• Axios: Warmest June on record hits Earth, boosting odds of warmest year
• Reuters: China may investigate energy storage plants for fire risks, local media says
• PV-Tech: Accelerating PV and energy storage – a special report
• Renewable Energy World: Here comes the boom – Wood Mackenzie forecasts massive solar, wind, and storage growth
• Energy storage News: FRV Australia turns first solar-plus-storage project online
• Canary Media: The US is about to get its first solar-covered canal
• PV-Magazine: Enphase begins shipping U.S.-made microinverters for commercial applications

Opinion

• New York Times: It Takes Too Many Studies for the Government to Do the Right Thing

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• Utility Dive: IRA’s impact grows clearer in H1 2024 as guidance and incentives spur investment
• Bloomberg: SunPower Shares Slump Amid Financial Misconduct Allegations
• New York Times: How Future Hurricanes Could Stress Power Grids of U.S. Cities
• NBC: Too much solar? How California found itself with an unexpected energy challenge
• Axios: The financial case for EVs — with caveats
• Politico: Texas coastal residents told to expect power outages, flooding
• Reuters: Germany to seek bids for hydrogen-ready power plants by early 2025
• Solar Power World: New report outlines possibilities of permanent California solar + storage “resilience hubs”
• Energy Storage News: SemperPower, Corre Energy and PowerField launch large-scale Netherlands BESS projects
• Canary Media: Supreme Court ruling threatens clean energy tax credits and much more
• PV-Magazine: Time to talk solar curtailment

Opinion

• PV-Tech: ‘As powerful as the oil and gas industry’: Sonia Dunlop on the growth of solar and the GSC

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• Fox News: Solar company found to have ‘reaped billions’ from top Biden law leads to outcry – ‘Appeasing the rich’
• Utility Dive: LG pauses construction on part of $5.5B Arizona battery plant
• Bloomberg: Apple, Amazon-Backed Group Asks Japan to Cut Emissions Faster
• PV-Tech: World Bank provides US$1.5 billion loan to support India’s renewable energy transition
• Energy Storage News: ARENA awards US$94 million for community battery energy storage in Australia
• Canary Media: In Michigan, homeowners associations can’t stop rooftop solar anymore
• PV-Magazine: U.S. household energy can wield 15 GW to affordably meet electricity demand

Opinion

• Reuters: German energy transition powered mainly by fossil fuel cuts

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