Election winners gear up for energy challenges

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ELECTIONS

• New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill’s win this week is a victory for the state’s struggling offshore wind sector, environmental advocates say. (Canary Media)

• The CEO of New Jersey utility PSEG says the company is prepared to work with Sherrill to keep electricity rates ​“as low as possible” and discuss longer-term solutions for increasing power supply. (Utility Dive)

• Though climate issues were not a focus of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, the newly elected mayor of New York city will inherit a landmark building decarbonization program and ongoing questions about how to bring more clean energy into the city. (Canary Media)

• Mamdani’s successful emphasis on cost of living issues could mark a shift in how advocates and politicians talk about climate. (New York Focus)

OFFSHORE WIND

• The monthlong, federally ordered work stoppage on Revolution Wind has lowered the value of the project by $77 million, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings report. (Rhode Island Current)

• Ocean City, Maryland town leaders are disappointed that the state governments of Delaware and Maryland aren’t joining in their fight against the proposed US Wind offshore wind development. (Baltimore Sun)

CLIMATE

• Environmental advocates urge Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to refuse any deals to resolve the state’s budget stalemate that include withdrawing the state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a multistate effort to reduce emissions from power plants. (Pennsylvania Capital-Star)

SOLAR

• Massachusetts municipalities may need to slow down solar development as they hit caps on the amount of renewable power they can receive bill credits for. (CommonWealth Beacon)

• New York awards more than $7 million to projects aiming to demonstrate the potential for generating solar power on land in active agricultural use. (news release)

• The city of Presque Isle, Maine, approves new setback requirements for solar developments, making it the latest community to contest the proliferation of solar projects in the state. (Bangor Daily News)

FOSSIL FUELS

• President Donald Trump slams New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for her failure to act on two pending natural gas pipeline proposals. (E&E News)

• Residents of a Pennsylvania town that is home to the country’s largest trash incinerator and a jet-fuel refinery speak out against a ​“negligent and irresponsible” plan to site a liquefied natural gas plant there. (Delaware Currents)

• Abandoned gas and oil wells in Pennsylvania leak methane into the atmosphere and the groundwater, Penn State researchers find. (news release)

DATA CENTERS

• Grid operator PJM is getting close to completing a plan for managing data center connections that includes prioritizing projects that come with their own generation and plans for how the facilities would be treated in case of a rolling blackout. (E&E News)

NEW FROM CANARY

• Chart: China leads the race to build green industrial projects — Maria Gallucci

• In Ohio, hydrogen industry presses on despite federal uncertainty — Kathiann M. Kowalski

• One North Carolina company’s plan for keeping rooftop solar going — Elizabeth Ouzts