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China ‘green’ jet fuel plants push back start-up amid lack of policy
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China ‘green’ jet fuel plants push back start-up amid lack of policy

Several Chinese builders of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plants are postponing start up as a lack of government policy guidance restrains them from marketing the fuel domestically or exporting it. Reuters reported last May that companies were investing more than $1 billion to build China’s first plants to turn waste cooking oil into aviation fuel for...

America May Not Need a Massive Energy Build-Out to Power the AI Revolution
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America May Not Need a Massive Energy Build-Out to Power the AI Revolution

Amid surging demand for data centers to train and use cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is a consensus that an expensive build-out of America’s electric power system is unavoidable. President Trump declared a national energy emergency on the first day of his administration and has pledged to fast-track new power plants to fuel the data...

Low-Energy Fridays: Should independent regulators be subject to the White House?
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Low-Energy Fridays: Should independent regulators be subject to the White House?

President Donald J. Trump recently issued a new executive order (EO) that will require “independent agencies” to submit their rulemaking to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. Interestingly (but unsurprisingly), this led to a deluge of news articles and quotes from opponents of the administration decrying the move as a power grab and part of an anti-regulatory agenda....

PJM board approves $6.7B transmission expansion plan
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PJM board approves $6.7B transmission expansion plan

The PJM Interconnection board approved $5.9 billion in new transmission projects to bolster reliability across the grid operator’s footprint, PJM said Wednesday. That, combined with changes to the scope and cost of existing projects, mean PJM’s latest Regional Transmission Expansion Plan is set to cost $6.7 billion, according to the grid operator for 13 mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states...

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