Insurers jacked rates and then fled Florida. Now it’s happening elsewhere.

SOLAR:

• A South Carolina county board approves incentives for five solar farms that will power Microsoft data centers. (Times and Democrat)
• A Tennessee electric cooperative partners with a Nashville-based solar company to build a 110 MW solar farm under a newly expanded Tennessee Valley Authority generation program. (news release)

OIL & GAS:

• The 70-year-old chairman of the Carrizo/​Comecrudo Tribe of Texas fights to preserve archaeological and cultural heritage sites threatened by development of liquified natural gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast. (Texas Observer/​Inside Climate News)
• West Virginia will receive $29.2 million in federal funding from the infrastructure package to plug roughly 200 former oil and gas wells. (news release, WV News)

GRID:

• Federal regulators approve long-awaited transmission planning and cost allocation reforms, requiring operators to incorporate new factors into their planning, limiting states’ ability to block projects, and enabling wind and solar farms in certain parts of Texas to more easily move power onto the grid. (Utility Dive, Houston Chronicle)
• Texas’ grid operator calls on manufacturers, data centers and other large power consumers to cut back on their energy use this summer to stave off outages. (San Antonio Express-News)

POLITICS:

• Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signs a compromise state budget that drops a provision that would have forced the state to rejoin a regional carbon market, which Democrats say was a necessary trade-off. (Virginia Mercury)
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis considers signing legislation to nullify renewable energy goals, remove the phrase ​“climate change” from state code, and reframe the state’s energy policy around reducing foreign reliance and strengthening infrastructure. (Inside Climate News)
• U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says major energy permitting reform desired by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is going to be ​“virtually impossible” to pass because of Republican resistance. (E&E News)