CLIMATE:
• Climate change poses a big risks to electricity reliability in the Southeast U.S. (Center for American Progress)
• The Palm Beach County, Florida climate change coordinator lays out her priorities. (Palm Beach Post)
NORTH CAROLINA:
• The legislature is set to keep the state’s renewable electricity requirement after dropping its 35% tax credit. (Charlotte Business Journal)
• Solar advocates say repealing the state’s 35% tax credit will hurt rural counties the most. (Fayetteville Observer)
SOUTH CAROLINA: With public comments in, regulatory staffers are to issue a report on cost-shifting associated with distributed energy by year’s end. (Greentech Media)
TRANSPORTATION: Nashville rolls out new downtown electric buses to replace its hybrid fleet. (Nashville Public Radio)
WIND: Arkansas lawmakers ask who has the last say in a power line proposed to transmit wind-generated electricity from Oklahoma to Tennessee. (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
SOLAR: Who’s behind competing proposed constitutional amendments about solar’s future in Florida. (Orlando Weekly)
OFFSHORE DRILLING: Hurricanes pose an added risk of oil spills if the Atlantic Coast is opened to drilling. (Louisiana Weekly)
FRACKING: If passed, North Carolina’s new budget would authorize funds to assess the potential for fracking. (Greensboro News & Record)
POWER LINES: South Carolina residents are upset over a proposed transmission line meant to deliver power to North Carolina. (Spartanburg Herald Journal)
COAL: Alpha Natural Resources is hammering out deals with creditors and miners in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia to restructure in bankruptcy court. (The Wall Street Journal)
COMMENTARY:
• Florida’s electric utilities are underperforming on renewables and efficiency and dangerously doubling down on natural gas. (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy)
• County governments are the last line of defense in Florida to the impacts of climate change. (Miami Herald)