SOLAR:
• Photo voltaic power tasks proceed to attract opposition in North Carolina, however they’ve additionally change into a monetary boon to rural communities. (Information & File)
• A photo voltaic nonprofit helps demystify the shopping for course of and get higher offers by bundling clients, together with in Texas, Florida, and Virginia. (Canary Media)
UTILITIES:
• Duke Power proposes a inexperienced tariff program in South Carolina that would offer business clients entry to 24/7 clear power. (Utility Dive)
• The Tennessee Valley Authority is sued for an electrocution demise in September 2021 at its Bull Run coal-fired energy plant. (Tennessee Lookout)
• Austin’s metropolis council is ready to vote on two price hikes this week for its municipal utility to cowl the rising price of pure gasoline at its energy vegetation, in addition to to pay for brand new infrastructure to maintain up with the town’s rising inhabitants. (KXAN)
ELECTRIC VEHICLES:
• West Virginia will obtain $45 million in federal funds to put in greater than 900 public charging ports, creating “seamless journey planning.” (Herald Dispatch)
• Virginia will obtain $38 million from the identical federal program to give attention to putting in electrical car charging in interstate corridors, then statewide highways. (Instances-Dispatch)
• Alabama electrical car homeowners have a chance to check their rides Saturday on a racing monitor that hosts IndyCar races. (WVTM)
WIND: College students from a Virginia Seashore school wind turbine technician program tour Dominion Power’s 2.6-gigawatt wind farm 27 miles off the coast. (WAVY)
GEOTHERMAL: College of Oklahoma college students win a $10,000 prize for designing a system that might repurpose deserted oil and gasoline wells to supply geothermal power to a number of public buildings. (information launch)
BIOFUELS: The proprietor of a Miami biodiesel enterprise and one other man are arrested for allegedly stealing used cooking oil from Florida eating places. (First Coast Information)
COMMENTARY:
• Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s claims that electrical autos are a menace to the state’s electrical grid counsel a surprising pessimism and insecurity within the state’s potential to adapt to the long run, two state lawmakers write. (Instances-Dispatch)
• A columnist writes that Dominion Power shouldn’t be capable to insist on an “all-profit, no-risk” method to constructing its $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind venture. (Virginia Mercury)
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