Juicy DC Inside Baseball. I know many of you miss my fun inside baseball stories so I thought I would revisit the old days for a minute because this one caught me off guard because I’m not on X anymore. Last week, as the Senate was working on the SPEED Act, which portrays itself to be a permitting reform bill, one clean energy trade group signed on to support the Act. This is not uncommon but what is both rare AND surprising (i.e. shocking) is that a senior Senator publicly, loudly and transparently comes after that trade group. I would presume that there were behind the scenes discussions on this topic that I am not privileged to hear but juicy indeed. Here is Senator Schatz’s twitter, feel free to go into this rabbit hole on this while you grab a bag of popcorn. I am reattaching a story from yesterday to the rundown today because they are related.
- Reuters: Wind and solar power frozen out of Trump permitting push
- PV-Magazine: Solar, storage, and demand-side resources offer least-cost path in Kentucky, study finds
- Bloomberg: German Power Shortage Threatens From 2031, Grid Operator Warns
- New York Times: New York Was a Leader on Climate Issues. Under Hochul, Things Changed.
- PV-Tech: SEIA appoints Darren Van’t Hof as interim president and CEO
- Energy Storage News: Battery storage assets in Europe could see 3% ROI uplift with 15-minute trading, Rystad says
- Canary Media: The man behind the fall of offshore wind
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Best, Yann