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UTILITIES: NV Energy proposes spending $827 million to meet growing power demand by constructing energy storage, transmission, geothermal facilities and 440 MW of natural gas generation. (Las Vegas Review Journal)
ALSO: Arizona Public Service Co. proposes a $20 monthly per-customer rate hike to cover rising natural gas costs. (Arizona Republic)
OIL & GAS: A 5.4 magnitude earthquake shakes the Permian Basin where oil and gas wastewater injection has coincided with an increase in seismic activity. (Houston Chronicle)
GRID:
• Some Arizona residents and environmentalists continue to battle the planned SunZia transmission line that would carry wind power from New Mexico, calling it an “ecological travesty.” (Arizona Daily Star)
• A substation transformer outage in southwestern Colorado leaves 1,400 customers without power and shuts down a ski area’s lifts for several hours. (Durango Herald)
SOLAR:
• An Alaska electricity cooperative proposes establishing the state’s first community solar project by allowing customers to invest in an existing installation. (KUAC)
• A 400 MW solar installation planned for private land in southern Oregon is expected to generate $28 million in property tax revenue for rural Lake County. (The Bulletin)
• The owners of land on which a proposed solar project in southwestern Colorado would sit rebut opponents’ claims it will displace wildlife and agricultural uses. (Durango Herald)
NATURAL GAS: A New Mexico utility proposes constructing a $180 million liquid natural gas storage facility aimed at mitigating fuel price fluctuations. (Albuquerque Journal)
ELECTRIFICATION: Milwaukie, Oregon’s city council votes to ban natural gas hookups in new construction and begin phasing the fuel out of city-owned buildings. (KGW8)
HYDROGEN: California regulators advance Southern California Gas’ proposed green hydrogen pipeline system that would serve Los Angeles. (Affordable Housing Finance)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES: PepsiCo plans to use state and federal subsidies to purchase 100 Tesla electric semi-trucks for its California fleet by next year. (Reuters)
CRITICAL MINERALS: Idaho conservationists cautiously support a new cobalt mine in the central part of the state, acknowledging the mineral’s importance in electric vehicle batteries. (Idaho Statesman)
GEOTHERMAL: Chevron says it is considering developing a geothermal power facility at an undisclosed location in Nevada. (UPI)
COAL:
• Powder River Basin coal producers say railroad bottlenecks have hampered shipments to power plants and forced utilities to curtail generation. (WyoFile)
• Colorado residents push back against plans to monitor and mitigate methane seeps from abandoned coal mines, saying the environmental costs outweigh the climate benefits. (Aspen Times)
CARBON CAPTURE: Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposes a plan aimed at monetizing carbon sequestration in forests and geologic reservoirs. (KTOO)
NUCLEAR: The U.S. Energy Department awards a contract to Colorado-based Energy Fuels to supply uranium to a new national uranium reserve. (World Nuclear News)
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