• New York Times: Harris Goes Light on Climate Policy. Green Leaders Are OK With That.
• Utility Dive: FERC rejects Basin Electric’s cryptocurrency mining rate proposal
• Canary Media: The power grid is hard to understand. This startup is trying to help.
• PV-Tech: Google finances Swift Current Energy 800MW solar PV project in Illinois
• Texas Standard: As dangerous heat grips Texas, solar power and batteries keep the power grid humming along
• Bloomberg: China Cuts Back on New Permits For Coal Power as Renewables Boom
• Energy Storage News: Jupiter Power puts Houston’s first large-scale BESS into action in Texas’ ERCOT market
• PV-Magazine: GM signs agreement to match assembly plant power demand with solar

Opinion

• Renewable Energy World: There’s a flood (of variable generation) down in Texas helping ERCOT manage demand records

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• Renewable Energy World: SunRun surpasses 1 million residential solar customers
• Bloomberg: Southeast Asia Solar Boom at Risk From US-China Trade Stress
• Canary Media: Georgia voters could make or break their state’s clean energy jobs boom
• Utility Dive: More efficient electric vehicles can reduce grid stress, cut charging costs by almost a third – ACEEE
• Axios: Why climate is missing from climate groups’ ad splurge
• Reuters: Australia approves $13.5 bln project to export solar power to Singapore
• PV-Tech: BloombergNEF: Australia needs 290GW solar PV and wind by 2050 for net zero
• PV-Magazine: Natron Energy announces $1.4 billion sodium ion battery factory in North Carolina

Opinion

• Energy Storage News: Battery storage could meet Illinois resource adequacy need as fossil fuels retire, analysis finds

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• New York Times: Coal Power Defined This Minnesota Town. Can Solar Win It Over?
• Bloomberg: Texas Grid Faces Biggest Test of Summer With Extreme Heat
• Energy Storage News: PNNL opens US DOE energy storage research facility, long-duration LCOS analysis published
• PV-Magazine: 12 GW of utility-scale solar deployed in first half of 2024, doubling 2023
• UTility Dive: Surging data center power demand risks subtracting clean energy from the grid
• Renewable Energy World: ‘It is unacceptable’: Maryland legislators react to PJM price increases
• Canary Media: More money is flowing to charge electric trucks in California

Opinion

• Reuters: Comment – Two years in, the Inflation Reduction Act is uniting America and driving clean energy growth

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• Bloomberg: Solar Panel Makers Seek Retroactive Duties, Citing Import Surge
• PV-Magazine: Global solar module prices fall amid weak demand
• Axios: Scoop – Biden marries Big Labor to Big Solar
• Canary Media: Chart – US clean energy investment is soaring thanks to climate law
• Reuters: Europe’s savvy new clean energy champion
• Utility Dive: Adding 8.5 GW of energy storage could save Illinois ratepayers $3B: study
• Renewable Energy World: $1.4B battery giga-factory coming to North Carolina
• PV-Tech: Providing data and minimising risk – in conversation with Anza
• The Hill: The Solar Investment Tax Credit is safe from repeal even if Republicans win in 2024

Opinion

• New York Times: The Electric Grid Is a Wildfire Hazard. It Doesn’t Have to Be.

Best, Yann