U.S. energy industry trade groups have launched a last-minute lobbying blitz to urge Congress members to spare a slew of former President Joe Biden's clean energy tax credits from the chopping block in the Republican budget plan.
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https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/last-ditch-lobbying-blitz-seeks-save-bidens-clean-energy-tax-credits-2025-05-13
What are folks go to sources for historic and forecast North American weather data these days? 5 min/hourly by station/location.
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wtf
"...Covered Agencies shall issue a sunset rule, effective not later than September 30, 2025, that inserts a Conditional Sunset Date into each of their Covered Regulations."
“The Dark Money Game” shines a spotlight on FirstEnergy’s bribes-for-bailouts scheme in Ohio just days after President Trump revived a failed push to use federal emergency powers to bail out coal-fired power plants that FirstEnergy lobbied for extensively during Trump’s first term.
FirstEnergy secretly paid $60 million to 501(c)(4) Generation Now that plead guilty to racketeering in 2021.
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https://energyandpolicy.org/hbo-the-dark-money-game-firstenergy/
New weekly news/current events roundup from Legal Planet
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https://legal-planet.org/2025/04/10/introducing-your-legal-planet-weekly/
Legal Planet and Evan George are on bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/legal-planet.org, and https://bsky.app/profile/evanlgeorge.bsky.social. I'm not sure if they're here. Let me know if so!
St Petersburgs's legal agreement with Duke is coming up for renewal next summer for the first time in 30 years, creating a rare window of leverage to form a city-run utility.
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The electrical grid is the world’s biggest machine, and it’s remarkable that it rarely breaks down. When it does, it can have spectacular impacts, as the shutdown of London’s Heathrow airport last week clearly showed.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-30/heathrow-is-a-wake-up-call-for-utilities
“There is simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas,”
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright
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Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest utility, is seeking a nearly $9 billion hike to customers’ base rates over four years, a sum that affordability advocates said represents the largest rate hike request in U.S. history.
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The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed a federal dataset to find the industrial facilities that directly released the most greenhouse gases in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia.
More than two-thirds of the facilities are power plants and most — more than 70% — burn coal to make electricity, while more than a third use natural gas.
In a joint Jan.15 letter to Lee Zeldin, whom the U.S. Senate confirmed to the post of EPA Administrator Wednesday, the Kentucky & Indiana power company executives say they want the agency to overhaul federal coal-ash rules that guide how companies store and manage coal ash, prevent hazardous substances from leaking into nearby water sources and remediate contamination.
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Pennsylvania’s consumer advocate, Patrick Cicero resigns asserting he was the victim of a “public campaign led by various investor-owned utilities to seek my removal.”
The incoming Republican attorney general, Cicero said, had asked him to reapply for the job he’d held for three years or resign.
“The utilities’ actions, and your decision to open the position cannot be separated,”
@primonatura 
short version:
"Germany deploys 16.2 GW of PV in 2024"
Why and for whom? For anyone interested in concrete figures - here are the figures for Germany for the year 2024 (just for a helpful comparison and to make Europe even less dependent on fossil fuels in the future):
here comes the longer version:
"At 16.2 gigawatts, the expansion of solar capacity in 2024 was again slightly higher than in the previous year. ... At the end of 2024, the total installed solar capacity in Germany was 99.3 gigawatts."
Overview for DE:
"The installed output of renewable energy systems rose by almost 20 gigawatts to a total output of just under 190 gigawatts. Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to an increase of 12 per cent. The main contributors to this development are solar and wind energy."
Source (translated) with much more facts and figures: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2025/20250108_EE.html
