UTILITIES: Hawaiian Electric considers restructuring in bankruptcy as it faces multiple lawsuits relating to the deadly Maui wildfires. (Utility Dive)
GRID:
• California utilities say Tropical Storm Hilary left as many as 500,000 customers without power and cloud cover caused a steep drop in solar power generation. (S&P Global)
• Hawaiian Electric says it has restored power to about 80% of its customers that experienced outages during and after the Maui wildfires. (Lahaina News)
• The U.S. Energy Department awards about $35 million to six Western tribal nations and Utah and Alaska for grid resilience projects. (Smart Energy International)
HYDROPOWER: California advocates urge federal regulators to reject a proposed pumped hydropower energy storage facility along the state’s northern coast. (Northern California Public Media)
TRANSPORTATION:
• California lawmakers pause a bill that would temporarily hike some Bay Area road tolls to fund public transit, saying it would disproportionately affect low-income residents. (Bay City News Service)
• A California transit agency plans to acquire a hybrid overhead-electric and battery-powered train to replace diesel locomotives on rail segments without overhead lines. (Railway News)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• A Colorado study finds about 30% of electric bicycle trips replace car trips and that people prefer e-bikes to cars when traveling less than five miles. (9News)
• California begins making its electric vehicle incentive program available only to low-income residents, saying the broader rebates are no longer necessary. (E&E News, subscription)
HYDROGEN:
• California lobbyists seek up to $300 million in state funding for hydrogen fueling stations, even though hydrogen-fueled cars make up a tiny fraction of the state’s vehicles. (CalMatters)
• A southern Nevada regional transit agency adds its first hydrogen fuel-cell electric bus to its fleet. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
SOLAR:
• Developers bring a 105 MW solar installation online in Montana. (PV Tech)
• A New Mexico resident fighting a proposed utility-scale solar installation near Santa Fe accuses county officials of improperly adopting a code that would allow the project to move forward. (Santa Fe New Mexican)
BATTERIES: A firm purchases a facility in northern Nevada to house its planned commercial scale lithium-ion battery recycling center. (news release)
CARBON CAPTURE: New Mexico researchers look to generate energy from pumping carbon dioxide into underground reservoirs.
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OIL & GAS: A nonprofit run by a former Trump administration official accuses Interior Secretary Deb Haaland of a conflict of interest relating to banning oil and gas leasing around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. (Farmington Daily-Times)
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