As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season begins, Duke Energy Florida is accelerating its investment in grid resilience and storm preparedness. Through advanced grid-hardening strategies, undergrounding projects, and the deployment of self-healing technology, the utility aims to reduce outages and speed restoration for its more than 2 million customers across the state Read the piece in E+E Leader...
The Trump administration predicted Monday that the risk of blackouts could become 100 times greater if planned fossil-fuel power plant closures remain on schedule. Why it matters: The Energy Department report lays the statistical groundwork to continue its efforts to keep coal and natural gas plants open beyond their scheduled shutdown dates. Read more Axios here.
After years of partisan disagreements, lawmakers slipped parts of the farm bill into the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-15), who chairs the House Agriculture Committee, said Pennsylvania farmers will especially benefit from the six-year farm bill. “The Agriculture Committee had its own title within the ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill,’ and the agriculture...
We hope you are all having a happy Independence Day! We have a fun cookout-related fact to share: Did you know that U.S. beef is among the least emission-intensive cattle meat in the world? The emission intensity of U.S. beef production is also declining, as noted in an excellent analysis from The Breakthrough Institute, which found...
Taiwan is among several countries experiencing an energy crisis, with its supply of power struggling to keep up with demand from a rapidly growing high-tech sector. The country has long depended on imported fossil fuels, a situation at odds with some government officials and others who want the island to build more renewable energy. With...
Read the full article and a summary of all tax-related OBBB provisions in Forbes here.
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced President Donald Trump‘s massive tax-cut and spending bill toward a final yes-or-no vote early on Thursday morning, appearing to overcome internal party divisions over its cost. During a marathon overnight session, lawmakers cleared a final procedural hurdle needed to begin debate on the bill in a 219-213 vote at around 3:30 a.m. ET (0730...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a novel pilot program that will allow private developers to build and operate full-scale advanced nuclear test reactors outside of the national laboratory system, without a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Through a new authorization model grounded in the Atomic Energy Act and a Trump-era...
In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law, unleashing a wave of optimism across the renewable energy sector. As someone who has spent over a decade in utility-scale development — working on more than a gigawatt of solar and hundreds of megawatts of battery energy storage projects — I saw firsthand how...
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