Illinois advocates vow to try again on clean energy bill

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STORAGE

• Illinois lawmakers and clean energy lobbyists vow to bring back an energy omnibus bill that failed to pass over the weekend with anticipated agreement over incentives for battery storage to relieve grid strain. (Inside Climate News)

NUCLEAR

• Meta reaches a 20-year agreement to buy power from a central Illinois nuclear plant that could serve as a financial lifeline for the plant that started receiving ratepayer subsidies in 2016. (WBEZ)

CLIMATE

• Small- to mid-sized weather events known as ​“secondary perils” that are typically harder to predict than large events are a growing concern for the insurance industry and could have broad implications for consumers as climate change intensifies events. (Inside Climate News)

CARBON CAPTURE

• An Indiana cement manufacturer’s planned carbon capture and storage project loses a $500 million federal grant that was among $3.7 million in clean energy awards canceled by the Trump administration. (Indiana Public Radio)

RENEWABLES

• U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says he hopes to find a compromise and possibly extend wind energy tax credits that would be eliminated under the U.S. House-passed budget bill. (Radio Iowa)

• Other Senate Republicans say they want to preserve or alter some renewable energy tax credits that were slashed by House Republicans. (E&E News)

SOLAR

• A 435 MW Indiana solar project that came online earlier this year was the largest U.S. solar installation to come online in the first quarter, according to a clean energy trade group. (PV Magazine)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Indiana environmental groups say AES Indiana’s proposal to build new gas plants to power data centers would hike ratepayer bills while creating new health risks in communities. (Mirror Indy)

BIOFUELS

• Michigan lawmakers consider a bill package that would give tax credits to airlines that buy ​“sustainable aviation fuel” made from Michigan growers’ crops. (Michigan Advance)

COMMENTARY

• An Indiana labor official says the U.S. House budget bill would decimate the state’s clean energy manufacturing jobs and clean energy production. (Daily Journal)

NEW FROM CANARY

• The Biden administration’s climate-smart agriculture initiative wasn’t perfect, but its cancellation under President Trump was for all the wrong reasons, Michael Grunwald writes.

• Massachusetts utilities and regulators agree on a system for splitting the costs of infrastructure upgrades necessary to connect more solar power to the grid, Jeff St. John reports.