HYDROGEN: As the Biden administration prepares guidance for hydrogen production incentives, it faces skepticism from clean energy advocates and some progressive Democrats who don’t think “blue” hydrogen produced with natural gas should count as a climate solution. (E&E News)
PIPELINES:
- A dozen Democrats in Congress tell the Biden administration that it should hold off on permitting carbon dioxide pipelines until new federal safety rules are finished. (Reuters)
- Federal officials order the Mountain Valley Pipeline to inspect and ensure the safety of pipe sections that were exposed to rain and sunlight during years-long delays in construction. (Roanoke Times)
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CLIMATE: Early analyses show last month was the hottest September ever observed, exceeding the previous record by almost a full degree Fahrenheit. (Washington Post)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
- A United Auto Workers deal with Mack Trucks doesn’t cover a non-unionized electric truck plant in Virginia and shows how automakers could move more jobs to electric vehicle factories in Southeastern states with “right to work” laws. (Winston-Salem Journal)
- Two electric vehicle charging companies partner to build revenue-sharing curbside charging stations in dense cities at no cost to building owners. (Utility Dive)
UTILITIES:
- Massachusetts officials propose policy solutions to address a bureaucratic backlog that municipal leaders and clean energy advocates say is bogging down community choice aggregation — one of the state’s top drivers of clean electricity purchases. (Energy News Network)
- San Jose, California, votes to form a city-owned electric utility to explore the concept of creating a municipal power provider and breaking free from Pacific Gas & Electric. (San Jose Spotlight)
GRID:
- PJM and other grid operators oppose the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s efforts to better evaluate how power plants, energy storage and other resources benefit grid reliability. (Utility Dive)
- The top official at New England’s grid operator tells Congress members they need to more effectively regulate the natural gas industry to increase grid reliability. (CommonWealth Magazine)
- A group of utilities propose spending up to $700 million on a 200-mile transmission line from South Dakota to Minnesota that officials say will be essential for integrating renewables on the grid. (Star Tribune)
COAL:
- Young people of color are fighting a coal terminal that blows coal dust around their south Baltimore neighborhood, building on the success of earlier peers who stopped a waste incinerator from being constructed. (NPR)
- Residents in a southern Illinois community next to a large coal plant and mine grapple with a future without the industry that contributed to local prosperity. (Grist)
POLITICS:
- More Republican voters are linking extreme weather to climate change, but top GOP presidential candidates aren’t reflecting their concern. (Independent)
- Analysts say Arizona provides a test case for whether split-party controlled states can enact effective clean energy standards. (E&E News)
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STORAGE: California’s grid operator tops a list of power markets that show the greatest potential for energy storage development, followed by Texas’s ERCOT and New York’s NYISO. (Utility Dive)
PUBLIC LANDS: The federal Bureau of Land Management considers banning industrial-scale clean energy and fossil fuel development on nearly 2.5 million acres in southern Wyoming. (WyoFile)
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