SOLAR: North Carolina solar installers ask state regulators to delay the onset of reduced payments to non-residential customers such as businesses and schools, arguing Duke Energy hasn’t provided adequate notice of the new rates. (WFAE)
STORAGE:
- Entergy’s 100 MW solar and battery storage facility in Arkansas stands as an example of how battery storage can deliver benefits for the power grid. (States Newsroom)
- A U.S. battery recycling firm partners with Korean and Singaporean companies to build a battery recycling pre-treatment facility in Kentucky. (Korea Economic Daily)
- Dominion Energy asks Virginia regulators for approval of two pilot battery projects to discharge stored power over longer periods of time than its current technology allows. (Virginia Mercury)
WIND: Federal regulators complete their environmental analysis of Dominion Energy’s Virginia offshore wind farm, marking a major milestone for the project set to begin construction next year. (WVEC, Virginia Business)
OIL & GAS:
- A federal judge orders the Biden administration to expand the sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases, rejecting a previous version that was scaled back to protect an endangered whale species. (Associated Press)
- West Virginia regulators penalize an industrial gas manufacturing facility for discharging pollution that violated its water permit. (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
PIPELINES: Oklahoma homeowners worry about a pipeline that was breached during construction work and leaked oil for four hours. (KOCO)
CARBON CAPTURE:
- Critics worry about the implications of storing carbon underground in places like Louisiana, which already has more than two dozen underground storage sites. (Floodlight/Louisiana Illuminator)
- Louisiana and Texas residents fret over the lack of public outreach around two carbon capture projects selected by federal officials for a $3.5 billion direct air capture program. (E&E News)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
- An all-electric vehicle dealership opens in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Charlotte Observer)
- A Kentucky airport board debates whether to install electric vehicle charging stations. (WPSD)
GRID:
- Federal officials determine last year’s Winter Storm Elliott resulted in an unprecedented 90,500 MW of power outages across the East Coast, significantly more than the 2021 winter storm that nearly took down Texas’ grid. (Power Engineering)
- Dominion Energy progresses toward its goal of burying 4,000 miles of power lines in Virginia and North Carolina. (Axios)
COAL:
- Michael Bloomberg announces he’ll invest $500 million into his Beyond Carbon project to close “every last” coal plant in the U.S. by 2030. (Reuters)
- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice releases a much-anticipated financial disclosure report as part of his U.S. Senate campaign that reveals some of the workings of his family’s troubled coal companies. (Parkersburg News and Sentinel)
HYDROGEN:
- West Virginia vies for federal funding to develop a hydrogen hub. (Mountain State Spotlight)
- Critics question whether an Appalachian hydrogen hub would actually create jobs or reduce carbon emissions. (Inside Climate News)
ACTIVISM:
- A 22-year-old Tennessee resident has attracted more than 800,000 followers to an Instagram account she founded to cover climate news. (WPLN)
- Experts warn about “fake experts” who spread climate misinformation that’s elevated because of their accomplishments in non-climate-related fields. (WFAE)
COMMENTARY: A self-proclaimed “Georgia capitalist” and owner of a wire company embraces the clean energy transition and its many economic benefits. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Editor’s note: Yesterday’s digest included an item about the Air Force’s first electric aircraft charging station, which was built at a base in Florida, Ohio — not the state of Florida.
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