Daily Clean Energy Briefings
Comprehensive daily summaries of clean energy news, covering wind, solar, battery storage, and policy developments. Published every morning at 8 AM EST.
Google backs a hybrid zinc-lithium storage project in West Virginia
The 380-MWh system paired with 86 MW of solar marks one of the first utility-scale deployments of zinc-based long-duration storage in Appalachia, signaling that data center operators are now…
Trump's widening crackdown on Chinese grid equipment rattles storage and inverter supply chains
The FCC's expanded Covered List and a presidential executive order declaring a national emergency over foreign bulk-power equipment now target inverters and battery systems connected at 69 kV and…
Trump's bulk-power equipment ban threatens to deepen America's transformer crisis
An executive order restricting foreign-made grid hardware — transformers, inverters, and battery systems — is already rattling supply chains for storage and solar projects nationwide, with…
California sues Trump over offshore wind "extortion racket." The state's lawsuit challenges nearly…
California sues Trump over offshore wind "extortion racket." The state's lawsuit challenges nearly $4 billion in taxpayer-funded lease buyouts that have canceled over a dozen U.S. offshore wind…
Trump bans foreign-made grid equipment in national emergency order
The executive order restricting transformers, inverters, circuit breakers, and energy storage systems from the U.S. bulk-power system gives the Department of Energy 120 days to publish formal rules —…
Dimension Energy lands $857 million for distributed solar across five states
The deal, alongside a separate $300 million tax equity close in California, signals that big capital keeps flowing into solar and storage even as developers brace for federal policy shifts under the…
A 1.3 GW solar factory in South Carolina marks a major domestic manufacturing bet
Translucent Energy's new facility, combined with a tax-abated 150 MW solar-plus-storage project advancing in rural Indiana, signals that clean energy buildout continues across red states even as…
Appalachian Power wants 800 MW of battery storage in Virginia
The utility's twin RFPs, requiring PJM interconnection and commercial operation by March 2030, represent one of the largest single-utility storage procurements in the mid-Atlantic this year — and a…
LG Energy Solution fires up a major battery cell factory in Lansing, Michigan
The plant produces both lithium-iron-phosphate and nickel-manganese-cobalt cells for energy storage and EVs, and its opening drew Trump administration officials — a signal that domestic battery…
LG Energy Solution opens a 35 GWh battery plant in Michigan
The Lansing facility vaults the Korean manufacturer to 80% of North American energy storage system production, reshaping the domestic supply chain at a moment when storage financing is surging.
Ohio's Oak Run solar project nears its final regulatory vote after two years of legal delays
The 800 MW solar and 300 MW storage project — the state's largest — returns to the Power Siting Board after the state Supreme Court rejected most appeals but ordered additional review of visual…
Ohio's largest solar project faces a final permitting decision after two years of legal limbo
The Oak Run Solar Project's fate before the Ohio Power Siting Board will signal how willing state regulators are to push utility-scale renewables through mounting local opposition.
Grid-scale batteries face growing interconnection delays nationwide
The backlog threatens to strand billions in storage investment at the precise moment utilities need those resources most, according to Bloomberg .
$600 billion in Biden-era clean energy funding has largely survived Trump administration budget cuts
A POLITICO analysis finds that spending appropriations have proven far harder to claw back than tax incentives, shielding the bulk of federal clean energy investment even as the White House pushes to…
DOE kills three transmission corridor reviews despite grid strain
The Department of Energy's decision to discontinue National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor reviews lands as utilities across the Northwest warn they need billions in new buildout to keep…
U.S. battery storage hits 52 GW after three years of 70% annual growth
The buildout, projected to double again to 105 GW by 2028, is reshaping how developers site solar projects and how grid operators plan for reliability — but PJM's reformed interconnection queue…
Tesla files for tax incentives on a $10.1 billion solar factory in Texas
The proposed facility in Fort Bend County — 3,050 acres, 9,712 permanent jobs, vertically integrated from wafer to module — would be the largest single manufacturing investment the company has ever…
The ITC sunset hits 680 solar projects in the crosshairs
With projects starting construction after July 4 losing access to the 30% federal Investment Tax Credit, developers are scrambling to restructure economics around power purchase agreements — a shift…
Tesla plans a $10.1 billion solar cell factory in Texas
The project, internally dubbed "Project Crystal Sun," would rank among the largest clean energy manufacturing investments ever announced in the United States — a bet that domestic solar production…
U.S. offshore wind's collapse leaves trained workers stranded
As projects evaporate across the Eastern Seaboard, a generation of technicians who retooled their careers for the industry now faces an uncertain future — a workforce problem that will compound any…
Federal judge orders Pentagon to restart wind project reviews
The ruling unblocks more than 155 onshore wind projects stalled after the Trump administration halted routine Defense Department permitting assessments for turbines over 200 feet tall.
A federal judge orders the Pentagon to end its wind farm blockade
The ruling, issued by a Trump-appointed judge in Oregon, forces the Department of Defense to resume routine military evaluations of proposed wind projects after months of what developers called a de…
Trump's new 15% polysilicon tariff hits solar supply chain
The trade action, targeting Chinese manufacturing, threatens to raise module costs just as Texas cements its position as the nation's battery storage capital with a wave of new projects reaching…
Base Power closes $1 billion at a $13 billion valuation to scale U.S.-made home batteries
The round — backed by Ribbit and Valor Equity Partners — funds manufacturing expansion at the company's Austin plant and a push beyond its current Texas and Illinois footprint, signaling that…
Texas halts all new data center grid connections pending audits
Governor Greg Abbott's order freezes approvals statewide, injecting fresh uncertainty into the renewable energy buildout that data center demand has been driving across the state.
DOE backs AEP Texas with a $3.26 billion loan for baseload and nuclear
The financing package — the largest single commitment from the department's Loan Programs Office in months — signals the Trump administration's willingness to deploy federal capital for grid…
Local permit denials are piling up across the country
Local permit denials are piling up across the country, blocking gigawatts of solar and storage capacity at the county level even as state commissions greenlight landmark projects. The split signals a…
Antora Energy banks $550 million to mass-produce thermal batteries
The Series C round — one of the largest ever for a storage startup — targets industrial decarbonization and the insatiable power appetite of AI data centers, a sector now reshaping grid planning from…
Trump administration bans new foreign-made inverters, throwing a wrench into solar, wind
Trump administration bans new foreign-made inverters, throwing a wrench into solar, wind, and storage project pipelines nationwide. The FCC order, citing national security, could delay gigawatts of…
MN8 Energy will pay up to $375 million for Greenbacker Renewable Energy
MN8 Energy will pay up to $375 million for Greenbacker Renewable Energy, merging two independent power producers into a 6-GW platform that would rank among the largest pure-play clean energy…