• Utility Dive: Maryland electric customers face up to 24% bill hikes from PJM capacity auction: report
• Bloomberg: Solar-Parts Maker Opens US Plant as Biden Pushes Domestic Supply
• Heatmap News: The IRA’s Labor Provisions Look Like They’re Working
• NPR: Rooftop solar has a fraud problem. The industry is working to build back trust
• Canary Media: Form Energy set to build world’s biggest battery in Maine
• New York Times: Wind Beat Coal Two Months in a Row for U.S. Electricity Generation
• Reuters: Utilities give clean energy investors a boost over solar
• Renewable Energy World: Alaska gives community solar a shot; will IRA-led investment follow?
• Energy Storage News: AGL to acquire Firm Power, adding 5.8GW to development pipeline

Opinion

• PV-Magazine: A look at IRA successes and failures

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• Heatmap News: What Biden’s IRA Has Done for Job Creation
• Bloomberg: Battery Makers Counteract EV Slowdown With Energy Storage Boom
• Axios: Climate change-worsened wildfires drastically increased odds, severity of 2023 wildfires
• Reuters: Key China energy indicators to track for the rest of 2024
• PV-Tech: Italy adopts FER 2 decree, adds tariffs for new renewable power projects
• Energy Storage News: UK planning reforms could boost BESS deployments
• Canary Media: The climate law’s $8.8B in home energy rebates are starting to roll out
• PV-Magazine: Aurora Solar introduces solar models powered by EagleView

Opinion

• Utility Dive: Why wait? VPPs can help PJM now

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• Solar Power World: Biden bumps number of silicon solar cells that can enter country tariff-free
• Utility Dive: Blackstone acquires majority stake of renewables engineering firm
• PV-Magazine: Agrivoltaics for corn
• Canary Media: How Dalton, Georgia, went from Carpet Capital to Solartown, USA
• Reuters: Ukraine approves $20 billion plan to increase renewable energy production by 2030
• PV-Tech: India adds 12.2GW of solar capacity in H1 2024, exceeds 2023 renewable power installation total
• Heatmap: Americans’ Top Concern About Renewable Energy Projects

Opinion

• Bloomberg: Spiraling Power Bills Overtake Rent Costs for Some in Pakistan

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• Bloomberg: We’re Burning More Climate-Warming Coal Than Ever. Why?
• PV-Magazine: Near $1 billion solar cell factory announced in New Mexico
• Canary Media: Data centers want to tap existing nuclear power. Is that good or bad?
• CNET: How Solar-Friendly Is Your State? We Scored Them All
• Utility Dive: CrowdStrike snafu was a ‘dress rehearsal’ for critical infrastructure disruptions, CISA director says
• Axios: Granholm confident in quenching AI’s energy thirst
• PV-Tech: Microsoft and Pivot Energy sign deal for 500MW of US community solar
• Renewable Energy World: New domestic supply: SEG Solar opens Texas module plant

Opinion

• Energy Storage News: First project in 20GW solar, 20GW storage plan for ‘challenged land’ in Fresno County, California

Best, Yann