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Online portal aims to be clearinghouse for community solar subscriptions

By Sarah Shemkus

Massachusetts-based EnergySage announced the soft launch of its community solar marketplace earlier this month.

Michigan solar ruling could expand the role of residential energy storage

Proposals to prohibit natural gas bans may threaten cities’ clean energy goals

Connecticut regulators want to pay utility customers to sync storage with demand

‘Clean Cars’ coalition wants Virginia lawmakers to address tailpipe emissions

community choice aggregation

Ann Arbor to lobby Michigan legislature for power to choose electricity sources

By Tom Perkins

After considering municipalization, Ann Arbor officials are instead working with local lawmakers on a bill to authorize community choice aggregation.

building codes

Cities, states would lose voice on model energy code updates under proposal

By Alex Ruppenthal

The International Code Council is set to consider a proposal that would strip public sector members of their voting rights on updates to influential model building energy code.

Connecticut

Connecticut plan lays out options for reaching zero-carbon power by 2040

By Lisa Prevost

State energy officials conclude that eliminating emissions in two decades is feasible and affordable, but it will require changes from grid operator ISO New England.

Illinois

Last chance for Illinois solar? Desperate advocates push fix in lame duck session

By Kari Lydersen

After backing competing clean energy bills, solar advocates and developers have reportedly united behind a small, short-term funding extension proposal.

Virginia

Solar synergy: How good timing and partnerships propelled a suburban D.C. county to its clean power goal

By Elizabeth McGowan

Arlington County, Virginia, will cover at least 80% of electricity for its operations from a 120-megawatt solar farm that it will share with Amazon.

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Federal circuit court scraps Trump administration’s power plant rule

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Midwest Energy News

January 20 2021

Ohio communities plot a future without large coal plants

SOLAR: A new online marketplace hopes to accelerate community solar development by connecting developers and potential subscribers in nine states, including Illinois and Minnesota. (Energy News Network) ALSO: • Dominion Energy acquires a 150 MW solar project in northwestern Ohio. (LimaOhio.com) • Alliant Energy donates $90,000 in community solar subscriptions to a local Habitat for […]

Southeast Energy News

January 20 2021

Federal regulators block pipeline’s plans to bore beneath streams

Correction: A report says the cost of reclaiming nearly half a million — not billion — acres of mined land in central Appalachia may amount to $6 billion. An item in Friday’s newsletter incorrectly reported the amount of land. PIPELINES: A deadlocked board of federal regulators blocked Mountain Valley Pipeline’s request to bore beneath West […]

Northeast Energy News

January 20 2021

Connecticut governor comes out against natural gas power plant

POWER PLANTS: Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont tells an environmental forum he “does not want to build” a 650 MW natural gas power plant in the eastern part of the state that is pending before regulators. (CT Mirror) SOLAR: A Massachusetts company opens an online portal to match consumers seeking to join community solar projects with […]

Western Energy News

January 20 2021

Wyoming lawmakers seek to end net metering

SOLAR: Wyoming lawmakers advance a utility-backed bill that would repeal net metering, which an advocate says if passed “essentially kills” the rooftop solar industry in the state. (Casper Star-Tribune) ALSO: • Hawaii’s largest utility announces a new program to speed up rooftop solar connections. (Honolulu Advertiser) • A new online portal matches consumers seeking to […]

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Court rejects Trump’s Clean Power Plan replacement

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