Daily Clean Energy Briefings — page 2 of 9

The state-level mandate is already reshaping land values and deal structures across the metro area, giving storage developers a rare policy runway even as federal clean energy incentives face ongoing…

Canadian Solar's subsidiary opens a 6 GW solar cell factory in Indiana , anchoring a nearly $1 billion bet on domestic manufacturing. The Jeffersonville plant — producing heterojunction bifacial…

Xcel Energy's Sherco coal plant in Minnesota is giving way to utility-scale solar and battery storage, adding to a quiet drumbeat of coal retirements that continues despite the Trump administration's…

The Trump administration admitted in court it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants solely because recipient states voted Democratic. The disclosure — spread across federal filings in multiple…

The deal — the largest pure-play storage acquisition on record — hands Brookfield 6.5 GW of operating and under-construction capacity plus a 20-GW-plus pipeline, signaling that institutional capital…

Solar and storage grabbed 91% of all new U.S. grid capacity in the first quarter of 2026, and solar generation topped coal for the first time in May — now supplying roughly 13% of American…

Xcel Energy's Sherco Solar project in Becker completed its third phase, with a proposed fourth that would push the coal-to-solar conversion to 910 MW — a template the industry is watching as…

The British utility's bet on AI-driven electricity demand signals that load growth from hyperscale computing is reshaping capital flows even as federal clean energy policy remains in flux under the…

Virginia data centers are building their own gas turbines to dodge seven-year grid queues, testing whether behind-the-meter fossil generation can sidestep state clean energy mandates. With 70 GW…

Oklahoma's thinning water supplies are emerging as a hidden dealbreaker for data center developers chasing cheap power in the Southern Plains. The constraint could redirect billions in load growth —…

Eight state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over $2 billion in settlements paid to energy companies that abandoned offshore wind projects. The legal challenge, combined with…

Google's 2.5 GW Arkansas solar-and-storage deal now has a signed contract and a 2029 completion target, making it the largest single corporate clean energy procurement in U.S. history. The sheer…

Google and Cypress Creek break ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage complex in Arkansas that would rank as the largest single solar project in the United States. The Steel River Energy Center, built…

Google and Cypress Creek broke ground on a 2.5 GW solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas — the largest in U.S. history. The Steel River Energy Center, backed by a virtual PPA for 100% of its initial…

Federal permitting bottlenecks have now stalled over 450 solar and storage projects — 36% of planned U.S. power capacity through 2030 — threatening $120 billion in consumer costs, according to a new…

Lazard's 2026 LCOE report pegs utility-scale solar at $40–$98/MWh, up from $38–$78/MWh last year, driven by tariffs, higher interest rates, and rising capital costs — a shift that will ripple through…

Dominion Energy customers are absorbing rising fuel costs and new grid investment charges simultaneously, a squeeze that could reshape how the state's largest utility finances its clean energy…

The Alta Wind I ruling at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims blocks the kind of systematic basis challenges that had kept developers' tax counsel up at night, removing what analysts called an…

Ohio's siting board asks the state Supreme Court to dodge a ruling on Vesper Energy's solar permit denial — a legal retreat that leaves developers without clarity on how the state will handle future…

The finding hands developers and lenders a data point they've been waiting months for: the business case for utility-scale solar holds even under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's reduced tax credits.

DESRI's 170 MW Foxtail Flats array on Ute Mountain Ute land is now the clearest test case of whether sovereign nations can outrun Washington's tightening grip on utility-scale solar approvals.

Districts across the country are testing vehicle-to-grid technology that turns idle bus fleets into distributed storage assets, a development that could reshape how utilities manage peak demand and…

The largest power grid in America is burning through its emergency playbook on Independence Day weekend, with electricity prices spiking and clean power purchase agreements climbing toward levels not…

The commission's show-cause action targets how RTOs handle data center and industrial interconnections, a signal that queue and planning reforms are coming whether operators volunteer them or not.

Duke Energy took $129 million from the Trump administration to surrender an offshore wind lease, the fourth such federal buyout as the White House methodically dismantles the U.S. offshore wind…

An Oregon lawsuit threatens to unravel federal authority over public lands across the West, putting wind and solar permits worth billions at legal risk. Separately, French utility EDF is offloading…

Wind developers are filing lawsuits and mounting their most aggressive legal campaign yet against Trump administration efforts to freeze offshore and onshore projects. The coordinated push —…

California escalates its offshore wind fight with the Trump administration, issuing subpoenas over the Golden State Wind cancellation while preparing a broader legal challenge to protect the state's…

The legal fight, announced today, opens a new front in the escalating federal-state war over renewable energy development and could shape the future of the entire U.S. offshore wind pipeline.

The agreement signals that massive storage capital is still flowing even as lenders tighten merchant-revenue limits across the sector.