• Bloomberg: Increasingly Wild Weather Worries California’s Grid Operator
• New York Times: Electricity From Coal Is Pricey. Should Consumers Have to Pay?
• Utility Dive: FERC Order 2023 implementation exposes gaps in interconnection process: S&P panel
• PV-Tech: ‘No energy transition without transmission’ – tackling the grid connection bottleneck in solar
• Heatmap: Can Electric Cars Escape Identity Politics?
• PV-Magazine: Alliant Energy completes 200 MW solar project in Wisconsin

Opinion

• Canary Media: Will new tariffs on EVs, solar, and other cleantech help Americans?

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• PV-Magazine: Research shows wind and solar produce tens of billions in U.S. health benefits per year
• Utility Dive: US data center electricity demand could double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence – EPRI
• Bloomberg: SoftBank-Backed SB Energy Seeks at Least $500 Million
• Axios: Industrialized countries meet $100B climate finance pledge, two years late
• Reuters: Brookfield enters deal to buy France’s Neoen for $6.6 billion
• PV-Tech: Maxeon posts US$14.9 million losses in delayed Q1 ’24 results
• Renewable Energy World: No, clean energy isn’t driving up power costs
• Energy Storage News: Europe passes Net-Zero Industry Act amidst mixed fortunes for local battery gigafactories
• Canary Media: California regulators torpedo popular plan to boost community solar

Opinion

• Los Angeles Times: Column – Gavin Newsom is a climate champion. Why did he just crush community solar?

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• Utility Dive: New Colorado law requires Xcel VPP program by February with performance-based tariff
• Bloomberg: The US Can’t Be Protectionist and World Leader
• Axios: Biden pushes to tame — and expand — carbon credit markets
• Reuters: Texas set to smash clean and dirty power output records in 2024
• PV-Tech: Michigan Public Service Commission to retain control over renewable energy permitting
• Canary Media: School districts receive $900M from EPA to fund electric school buses
• PV-Magazine: DOE funding available for distributed energy resource operations software

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: How batteries help keep Texas lights on during extreme weather

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• Heatmap: Tom Steyer Is Baffled By Warren Buffett’s Oil Bets
• Reuters: Energy Capital Partners to acquire Atlantica for $2.56 bln
• Utility Dive: As storage interconnection requests jump 540 GW, DOE and other experts weigh how to get things moving
• San Francisco Chronicle: California is about to side with PG&E — again — this time to kill community solar projects
• Bloomberg: Omers Said to Explore Selling Stake in Texas Renewable Energy Firm
• PV-Tech: Italy – Utility-scale solar grows 373% in Q1 2024
• Energy Storage News: National Battery Strategy – Australia targets ‘globally competitive producer’ status by 2035
• Canary Media: Better real-time data for the country’s congested transmission lines
• PV-Magazine: Battery energy storage tariffs tripled; domestic content rules updated

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: Advocates see missed opportunities as Virginia lags its neighbors in clean energy manufacturing

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