A new infusion of federal funding will support cutting-edge (& early-stage) efforts to decarbonize the U.S. iron and steel industry. Canary Media got an early peek at ARPA-E's $28M awards for 13 projects, incl. from startups Electra & Limelight Steel canarymedia.com/articles/steel…

The Biden admin has a five-year plan to boost 'innovative grid' technologies that could dramatically expand capacity and reliability of U.S. power grids — if only U.S. utilities and regulators can fix the incentive mismatches that are holding them back: canarymedia.com/articles/trans…

Climbing aboard the Energy Observer means literally climbing on and over an array of cutting-edge clean energy technologies. I toured the research vessel last week during its stopover in NYC—one its last after 7 years of sailing Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/sea-t…

We're starting the second week of our birthday donation drive with a bang 💥 Thanks to generous support from the Tidwell Idaho Foundation, the first $5,000 in gifts this week will be doubled, so a donation goes twice as far! Give to Canary Media here: bit.ly/43WA4Lk

California's rooftop solar market is shrinking fast, largely due to decisions by Gov. Gavin Newsom's appointees. State lawmakers have proposed several bills that would reverse those decisions, but will they pass? canarymedia.com/articles/solar… via Jeff St. John

Interesting point from Julian Spector's new piece on CA rooftop solar changes.

New rules were supposed to send home battery sales soaring — but while attachment rates are way up, battery installations in Jan were slightly lower (in MW) than in Jan 2023

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In part two of our NEM 3.0 coverage, Julian Spector explains how California’s climate governor Newsom has overseen a reversal in fortune for the once-favored rooftop solar industry—just when the state needs all the clean energy it can get canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

.U.S. Department of Energy is convening manufacturers and customers like IKEA and @Amazon to get next-gen heat pumps ready for commercial rooftops by 2027. Reportng by Alison F. Takemura: bit.ly/3Uh1V5w

No one has covered the fallout of California's big rooftop solar policy change, instituted a year ago today, better than Jeff St. John

Read his new piece on how the state might fix the mess it's made of small-scale solar in recent months:

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California lawmakers are trying to restore the state’s once-booming rooftop solar industry, ⁦Jeff St. John⁩ writes. The stakes are high, not only b/c CA emits more CO2 than most countries, but also b/c of its position as the nation’s climate leader canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

“A couple of years ago it was the bridge fuel.. After Winter Storms Uri and Elliott, it was what they needed for reliability. Now it’s what they need to meet data center load​. “Whatever the problem is...the reflexive solution is to build a new gas plant”

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Community solar helps people who can't get rooftop solar to access the benefits of solar ownership. Developer Nexamp just raised a boatload of money ($520M to be precise) to build more of it, Eric Wesoff writes canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

Notable inflection point: Texas got more electricity from solar than from coal last month. canarymedia.com/articles/solar…

Excellent new investigation on proposed gas power expansion by US utilities to support mega-customers, by Jeff St. John Canary Media. It covers a lot of ground. Here are a few highlights. (🧵1/8) canarymedia.com/articles/utili…

Southeast utilities want to build GW of fossil gas power plants to meet an upsurge in power demand. Critics say clean energy+batteries — and asking data centers and factories to help manage grid peaks — are much better for climate, cost and reliability:
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Utilities in the U.S. Southeast want to build way more gas-fired power plants to meet surging electricity demand. But critics say clean energy, batteries & grid-responsive data centers can do the job, Jeff St. John explains in his excellent deep-dive
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A big update from our newsroom Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/canar…

Texas, the biggest consumer of coal in the US, got more electricity from solar than coal last month.

It's the first time solar beat coal over a full month in Texas, and another example of how clean energy is winning in the state, Julian Spector writes:

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