EMISSIONS: After protests from climate scientists and environmentalists, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul removes a proposal from the state budget that would’ve weakened the state’s accounting of methane emissions. (Times Union)
EFFICIENCY:
• Boston’s city council votes to adopt an optional state building code that includes efficiency mandates and expensive requirements for developers who choose fossil fuels over electrification. (Boston Globe)
• A New York developer looks to build all-electric, high-efficiency apartment buildings across Connecticut. (Hartford Courant)
• Connecticut allocates $56 million to public schools for HVAC improvements, including to make their systems more energy efficient. (news release)
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CLEAN ENERGY: A Pennsylvania county official discusses the importance of clean energy jobs after a major coal plant announces it is closing. (Indiana Gazette)
GRID: Two New York utilities revamp an electric vehicle charging program to take advantage of cars’ built-in grid management technology and better reward drivers who charge during off-peak hours. (Canary Media)
STORAGE: Maryland could build more than 3,500 MW of energy storage by 2033, storing clean power to reduce the state’s current emissions by as much as 93%, an analysis estimates. (Utility Dive)
OFFSHORE WIND:
• Federal regulators finish their review of design and installation plans for the South Fork wind farm offshore of Rhode Island and New York, allowing construction to begin. (news release)
• General Electric settles a patent dispute with Europe’s Siemens Gamesa over the design of GE’s offshore wind turbine, which will be used in Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard wind farms. (Times Union)
• The first U.S.-built offshore wind farm operations vessel is under construction and will house technicians working on Northeast wind projects. (WWNO)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• Delaware considers adopting Advanced Clean Cars II standards that would allow only zero-emission cars to be sold by 2035. (WHYY)
• New York’s Ithaca College looks to install more electric vehicle chargers beyond the two it currently offers. (Ithacan)
SOLAR:
• A Pennsylvania college will hold a free conference to help community leaders and landowners learn about large-scale solar development. (Bradford Era)
• Kingston, New York, lawmakers show their support for a community choice aggregation program that would automatically enroll residents in solar projects. (Daily Freeman)
CLIMATE:
• A University of Maryland research center partners with state agencies to help implement the state’s climate law. (Maryland Matters)
• PSE&G joins another utility to fight a New Jersey city that wants to seize their waterfront generating and switching stations for redevelopment. (Cherry Hill Courier-Post)
UTILITIES:
• Connecticut is among several states looking to bar utilities from passing along certain costs to ratepayers. (E&E News)
• More than 100,000 Connecticut consumers have switched to third-party power providers this year after dramatic rate increases from Eversource and United Illuminating Co. (CTInsider)
BIOMASS: Proposed New York legislation could rescue the biomass plant formerly powering Fort Drum by considering forest biopower a renewable energy source. (WWNY)
HYDROPOWER: A Massachusetts hydropower facility agrees to improve fish passage and water flow as it seeks renewal of its federal license. (New England Public Media)
COMMENTARY:
• Maine’s public advocate calls for forming a state panel of experts and stakeholders to settle debates over the fuel’s role in the clean energy transition. (Bangor Daily News)
• A columnist calls out the anti-wind interests behind an effort to blame whale deaths on offshore wind construction. (Boston Globe)
• A state-owned network of underground pipes in Hartford, Connecticut, should be reconfigured to heat and cool downtown buildings with ground-source heat pumps, a clean energy advocate says. (CTMirror)
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