Indiana ratepayers could be stuck with advanced nuclear costs, advocates warn

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NUCLEAR

• Indiana consumer advocates raise concerns over a bill promoting small nuclear reactor development that would allow utilities to charge customers for early-stage project costs, even if a project is never built. (Canary Media)

PIPELINES

• A federal appeals court hears arguments in Michigan’s attempt to shut down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac, a state-level move that Enbridge says is preempted by federal pipeline laws. (Michigan Public)

• Iowa landowners and pipeline activists calling on lawmakers to ban the use of eminent domain for carbon pipelines are encouraged by South Dakota’s new eminent domain law. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• President Trump’s attempt to repeal federal electric vehicle tax credits could save $168 billion over a decade but threaten an emerging EV and battery manufacturing boom unfolding in red states that backed Trump, according to a new Princeton University study. (E&E News

GRID

• Ohio lawmakers advance a sweeping energy bill that would repeal coal plant subsidies and is aimed at making it easier to build power plants by changing the utility ratemaking process, among other provisions. (Ohio Capital Journal)

• Ratepayer advocates and state regulators file opposition to PJM’s proposal for a price floor and cap for its next capacity auction, saying it could limit investment in new generation and raise costs with an artificial price floor. (Utility Dive)

• The Southwest Power Pool, which serves 14 states in the Midwest and West, could need $263 billion in generation investments and hundreds of gigawatts of renewable energy and storage by 2050 to meet anticipated load growth, according to a new analysis. (Utility Dive)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Consumers Energy is in the process of removing mineral oil that spilled during a fire at one of its gas-fired power plants in eastern Michigan. (MLive)

• We Energies says its plan for a new $1 billion Wisconsin natural gas plant is meant to maintain reliability as it closes coal plants, though clean energy advocates call for more renewable energy investments instead. (FOX 6)

EFFICIENCY

• A Wisconsin city is launching an energy efficiency program that will offer free insulation and air leak checks for more than 300 households. (WEAU)

COMMENTARY

• Ohio legislation that would repeal subsidies for two large coal plants comes at a high cost and lead to more gas-fired plants that are supplied with gas fracked from state parks and public land, a conservation group leader writes. (Ohio Capital Journal)

NEW FROM CANARY MEDIA

• Three years after Russia invaded Ukraine and set off an energy crisis in Europe, Julian Spector examines how far the continent went in phasing out fossil fuels altogether.