ELECTION:
• Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin urges President-elect Trump to abolish the U.S. EPA. (Louisville Courier-Journal)
• North Carolina conservative philanthropist Jay Faison could be the lone voice for cleaner energy during the transition for President-elect Trump. (Washington Examiner)
UTILITIES:
• Despite a drop in power sales and rates, the TVA reports the highest level of annual earnings in its 83-year history. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
• A member utility of the TVA stumbles deploying time-of-use rates for residences and small businesses. (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy)
• Duke Energy Progress proposes to build a microgrid with a small solar-plus-storage system to serve a remote communications tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (Charlotte Business Journal)
• The gas utility serving Roanoke, Virginia completes a 25-year pipeline renewal program. (Press Release)
PIPELINES: President-elect Trump is expected to speed approval of interstate pipelines. (EnergyWire)
SOLAR:
• The third largest solar installer in North Carolina agrees to be acquired by a California renewable energy company. (Charlotte Business Journal)
• A North Carolina developer proposes to build the second largest solar farm in a south-central Virginia county. (SoVaNow.com)
NUCLEAR:
• The Deptartment of Energy agrees to sell depleted uranium to GE-Hitachi for enriching at a planned state-of-the-art facility in western Kentucky set to create about 1,000 jobs. (West Kentucky Star)
• Two researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee are recognized for their work on advanced reactor technology. (Press Release)
• Anti-nuclear activists protest the planned route through Asheville, North Carolina for the transport of radioactive waste from Canada to a site in South Carolina. (WJLA)
FLORIDA: A look back: How a leaked recording and appeals by celebrities galvanized opposition to the solar Amendment 1 which voters failed to approve. (Christian Science Monitor)
PIPELINE: Two outages this fall of the Colonial pipeline in Alabama underscore its role in supplying gasoline to Southeast states. (OilPrice.com)
CLIMATE:
• Florida scientists appeal to President-elect Trump to acknowledge climate change is not a hoax. (WMFE)
• A NASA scientist shares updated projections of worsening sea-level rise in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region. (Daily Press)
• Even without federal leadership, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says he will keep the city working to mitigate climate change. (WABE)
GRID: The operator of the regional grid that includes parts of Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee, most of Virginia and all of West Virginia recommends establishing a stakeholder process on wholesale electricity prices. (Platts)
COMMENTARY:
• Even under President Trump, Dominion’s gas build-out is still a bad idea. (Power for the People VA blog)
• How cynical was the utilities’ push to pass Florida’s solar Amendment 1? (Tampa Bay Times)