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WIND: North Carolina’s vast potential for wind energy is threatened as Duke Energy’s decarbonization plans envision a smaller role for offshore projects than the governor has called for. (Energy News Network)
ALSO:
• Construction of Virginia’s first onshore wind farm has moved slowly since 2016 because developers have had trouble finding a buyer for its electricity. (Roanoke Times)
• Dominion Energy asks Virginia regulators to approve a customer surcharge to pay for continuing work on its planned offshore wind farm. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
CLIMATE:
• An Arctic cold front blasts across the Southeast as it develops into a winter storm that will test power grids and states’ responses to extreme winter weather. (Washington Post, Texas Tribune)
• Texas cities and nonprofits warn their resources to keep unhoused people warm are stretched to capacity amid a surge of migrants. (Texas Tribune, NBC News)
• An expert discusses gas industry weatherization reforms implemented after natural gas problems caused the vast majority of Texas’ unplanned outages during the 2021 winter storm. (KXAN)
• A Florida city commission signals support for a development moratorium in flood zones until a review of its stormwater management and drainage regulations. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
SOLAR:
• Solar developers are looking for a new site to build a 200 MW solar farm in Louisiana after local officials reject tax breaks for the project. (The Advocate)
• A new Mississippi law taking effect in January will allow school districts served by Entergy Mississippi or Mississippi Power to enter into power purchase agreements with third-party solar operators. (Mississippi Today)
• An environmental law firm releases a report on six Southeast states finding solar capacity has grown from 10,000 MW in 2018 to more than 23,000 MW today. (news release)
OVERSIGHT: The U.S. Senate approves six nominees to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s board, restoring it to its full nine-member size for the first time in more than 20 months. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
OIL & GAS:
• The Biden administration approves a permit for an energy company to send natural gas from Texas and other states to a liquified natural gas terminal on Mexico’s Pacific Coast for export to Asia. (Houston Chronicle)
• West Virginia oil and gas drilling regulators appeal a court ruling, seeking to redirect a challenge to a law involving the landowners’ property rights with regard to natural gas and horizontal well drilling. (Weirton Daily Times)
CARBON CAPTURE: Louisiana residents fight state regulators’ approval of a company’s test well permit required to build its planned $4.5-billion blue hydrogen manufacturing complex with carbon capture and storage beneath a lake. (The Advocate)
COAL: Appalachian land restoration advocates lobby Congress to let states use abandoned mine land infrastructure funding to treat acid mine drainage. (Charleston Gazette-Mail)
NUCLEAR: A Canadian company will acquire a Virginia property on the largest undeveloped uranium deposit in the country, leading experts to discuss the pros and cons of uranium mining. (Cardinal News)
RENEWABLES: Students from several Virginia schools build a holiday light display powered by solar panels and a 25-foot wind turbine. (Virginian-Pilot)
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