SOLAR:
• Chattanooga’s electric utility decides to build a community solar system and sell the power to the TVA. (The Chattanoogan)
• A leasing option is boosting solar energy in South Carolina. (Charleston Post and Courier)
• The Pentagon is betting heavily on securing energy from solar and wind energy projects in Georgia and elsewhere. (The Washington Post)
WIND: Dominion Resources will try a second time to source a wind energy system off Virgini’s coast. (Bloomberg)
BIOMASS: The loss of a U.K. biomass subsidy delivers a big blow to the wood pellet industry in nine Southeast states. (Southern Environmental Law Center)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Twenty-eight new charging stations are coming to northeast Florida. (Florida Times-Union)
VOLKSWAGON EMISSIONS: Research by West Virginia University on certain diesel-fueled vehicles by VW helped determine how it cheated on emissions tests. (Associated Press)
NORTH CAROLINA: A final budget deal seals the fate of the state’s renewable energy tax credit: it will expire at year’s end. (SNL)
PIPELINES:
• The owners of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline designed to deliver fracked natural gas to the Southeast formally submit their application to the federal government. (Associated Press)
• Questions abound over how Georgia lawmakers will address the proposed Palmetto Pipeline route through the eastern part of the state. (Morris News Service)
• The federal government is expected to issue new pipeline safety regulations. (Associated Press)
UTILITIES:
• Charlotte-based Duke Energy has taken almost $1 billion in charges against earnings since 2010 for cost overruns at a coal gasification plant in Indiana. (Charlotte Business Journal)
• NRG Energy is scaling back its ambitious renewable energy plans to focus on its traditional power generation business. (The Wall Street Journal)
CLIMATE: The South Carolina Aquarium is seeking funding to study how climate change will impact coastal cities. (Charleston Post and Courier)