OIL & GAS: U.S. gas companies have leveraged European supply crunches caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to secure long-term liquified natural gas contracts, locking in emissions for decades. (Guardian)

ALSO: A Texas Gulf Coast liquified natural gas export facility prepares to resume commercial operations for the first time since a June fire. (Inside Climate News/Texas Observer)

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OFFSHORE WIND:
• The Biden administration releases its blueprint for building up the floating offshore wind industry, including forthcoming reports on building transmission from turbines to the West Coast. (E&E News)
• The White House announces it will auction off roughly 300,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore wind development. (The Hill)
• A federal marine mammal commission says offshore wind projects aren’t responsible for recent whale deaths along the East Coast. (Asbury Park Press)

GRID:
• More than 585,000 people in Michigan and 118,000 in Illinois were without power late Wednesday as snow and ice storms socked the region. (CBS News)
• California installed 2.4 GW of battery capacity in 2022, accounting for more than half of the total installations in the U.S. (Scientific American)

UTILITIES:
• A software company helps utilities manage transmission growth and improvements with a grid resilience database that takes into account climate risks, equity concerns, and other factors. (Canary Media)
• Utility trade group Edison Electric Institute pushes Congress to pass energy permitting reform and urges federal and state regulators to revamp transmission rules. (Utility Dive)

SOLAR:
• Residential solar installer Sunrun deployed 275.4 MW of panels in the fourth quarter of 2022, surpassing SolarCity’s single-quarter record dating to 2015. (Bloomberg)
• A solar manufacturing trade group achieves its goals of incentivizing domestic panel production with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, and moves on to new ambitions. (Utility Dive)
• Virginia climate advocates develop a climate justice scorecard to measure social and environmental impacts of large-scale solar projects. (Energy News Network)

CLIMATE: A new analysis details the U.S. cities that are least at risk of extreme sea level rise, drought, and other climate disasters. (Washington Post)

CARBON CAPTURE:
• A Houston company announces plans to build a geothermal-powered direct-air carbon capture plant. (Washington Post)
• A growing number of farmers in Kansas and Missouri are adopting practices that allow them to sell carbon offset credits as an additional revenue source. (Flatland)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors say it upped its production rate by 50% in the last quarter of 2022, producing 7,200 cars the whole year. (New York Times)
• Elon Musk announces Tesla will open a new engineering headquarters in California, 15 months after the company’s high-profile departure to Texas. (KTLA)

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ELECTRIFICATION: Heat pumps are more energy efficient than oil or gas furnaces even in cold temperatures, and can save homeowners on their utility bills, advocates say. (New York Times)

COMMENTARY: The U.S.’s climate migration is already beginning as residents who’ve lost their homes to weather disasters and wildfires retreat to seemingly safer areas, a journalist writes. (Guardian)

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Kathryn brings her extensive editorial background to the Energy News Network team, where she oversees the early-morning production of ENN’s five email digest newsletters as well as distribution of ENN’s original journalism with other media outlets. From documenting chronic illness’ effect on college students to following the inner workings of Congress, Kathryn has built a broad experience in her more than five years working at major publications including The Week Magazine. Kathryn holds a Bachelor of Science in magazine journalism and information management and technology from Syracuse University.