U.S. green banks enabled $12.4B in clean energy and climate projects in 2024 and 2025, like this community solar array for New Orleans’ Sisters of the Holy Family. Now, can they win back $27B in federal funds stolen by the Trump administration?
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California's slow transmission grid buildout is holding back gigawatts of much-needed clean energy. This week's California Wire examines a new law that gives state agencies more power to keep utilities on track — and why that's so important: californiawire.substack.com/p/getting-ca...
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Tesla may be late to vehicle-to-home (V2H) charging compared to rivals like GM, Nissan and Kia. But Tesla has also made its EVs capable of delivering home- and grid-ready AC power, bypassing the costly DC chargers other EVs need to power homes:
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom defied political expectations Wednesday by signing a raft of bills aimed at curbing utility spending and boosting the role of household battery and smart thermostat-based virtual power plants to bring down electricity costs: www.canarymedia.com/articles/vir...
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The Senate energy permitting bill unveiled Wednesday contains a raft of transmission permitting, planning and cost-allocation reforms that experts say could dramatically boost grid buildouts and clean energy capacity — if it can be passed into law:
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California must push down electric truck prices to meet its clean freight goals. Backers of a new law hope its pricing transparency rules can both curb overcharging by truck manufacturers and bring light to a now-murky EV truck financing scene: californiawire.substack.com/p/electric-t...
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The Trump administration has awarded $1.9B to boost projects using transmission grid tech like dynamic line rating and advanced conductors—a big boost for a class of tech experts say could dramatically expand U.S. grid capacity if deployed at scale: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...
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After a federal judge ruled that EPA's killing of the $7B Solar for All program was illegal, nonprofits and companies are ready to restart projects to help low-income residents—if the Trump administration obeys a court order to give them the money:
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PG&E and Google's new Silicon Valley VPP sounds great. Who's against Google paying for solar-charged home batteries and battery-backed HVAC? But the plan ignores the elephant in the room—the grid impacts of Google's planned 250MW compute lab: californiawire.substack.com/p/pg-and-e-g...
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Don't worry about the fantasy killer robot superintelligences. The real threat is the idiot madmen deluded enough to believe they're capable of building them, and willing to destroy the world to get there: calnewport.com/superintelli...

New York City needs more batteries. But a yearlong fight between utility ConEd and battery developers has frozen community battery projects. ConEd says its grid is threatened. Developers say ConEd wants more profits. When will state regulators step in?
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PS - California WIre is also live at @canarymedia.com — check out my take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track:
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California Wire, Canary Media’s new weekly newsletter, is live! In this edition, I take on outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s poor record on enabling distributed energy to curb utility rates, and his last chance to sign bills that could put us back on track:
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What if our current AI "moment" is functionally equivalent to what would have happened if you had given Scientology a trillion dollars and said, "Go create the digital L. Ron god" and then, "try to find a way for people to pay for its services" ... ???
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California Wire
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California Wire, Canary Media's new weekly newsletter dedicated to unraveling the complexities of the Golden State's energy transition, launches TOMORROW! I can't wait to share my California clean energy and climate policy obsessions. Sign up and join in!
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