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Large-load tariffs increasingly rely on upfront payments, exit fees, ramp schedules
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Trump grid order likely to cause energy storage delays, cancellations: BloombergNEF
1+ week, 4+ day ago (586+ words) The Aug. 26 executive order, previous executive actions and the Treasury Department’s Foreign Entity of Concern guidance are likely to hit battery and inverter supply chains particularly hard. Trump’s executive order seeks to prevent certain foreign-made batteries, transformers, inverters and related…...
California sues Trump administration over offshore wind ‘extortion racket’
1+ week, 5+ day ago (414+ words) The state alleges the Trump administration “abuses its authority” by diminishing the value of offshore wind energy leases before it makes an “unrefusable offer” to developers. California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission filed a lawsuit Friday…...
Trump declares emergency, moves to block some foreign-made equipment from grid
2+ week, 2+ day ago (533+ words) Grid equipment manufacturers say more clarity will be needed, particularly around rules for software and digital products where the country of origin may be difficult to determine. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order preparing to block utilities…...
Trump’s energy policy could cost US 540 GW of renewables, says NRDC
2+ week, 3+ day ago (444+ words) “We lose more than half of everything that we expected to be able to build with the combination of market forces and proactive policy,” said Amanda Levin, NRDC’s director of policy analysis. An August report from Global Energy Monitor counts…...
US-Canada trade war threatens electricity imports, prices
2+ week, 4+ day ago (357+ words) If Canada opts to reduce or eliminate electricity exports to New England, the impact would be largely financial — at least under typical weather conditions, according to the region’s grid operator. An escalating trade war between the United States and Canada…...
Quantum computing is coming fast. Are utilities ready?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1638+ words) “The load profile is different from anything utilities have planned for before,” said Aparna Prabhakar, chief strategy and sustainability officer, energy management, for Schneider Electric. Today’s utility work on quantum computing has one key goal: to not be left scrambling…...
Dominion ordered to directly assign some transmission costs to data centers
1+ mon, 13+ hour ago (495+ words) The Virginia State Corporation Commission said it may use an upcoming docket to weigh whether this policy “could or should” also apply to more upstream transmission costs. “At the extremes, this minimum demand adjustment decreases the residential class’s allocation factor…...
America’s permitting crisis lives at City Hall
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (459+ words) Every month a city spends re-reviewing a battery it has already certified safe is capacity the grid doesn’t get and a bill a family doesn’t see fall, writes Base Power COO Justin Lopas. Justin Lopas is COO and co-founder of…...
DOE mulls changes to Biden-era transformer rule, raising utility concerns
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (598+ words) The Trump administration is considering revising energy efficiency requirements for distribution transformers that were approved two years ago to wide industry acclaim, generating fresh concerns among utilities and other electric sector stakeholders about grid expansion bottlenecks. The new rules, set…...