Investors enthusiastically back nuclear fusion in Tennessee

SOLAR:

• A company announces it will build a $63 million factory to make solar modules for utility-scale, residential and commercial uses. (Cardinal News)
• An energy task force urges a Virginia county board to consider drafting a policy regulating battery storage, as well to loosen solar ordinance restrictions on smaller projects. (Smithfield Times)

OIL & GAS:

• North Carolina residents testify against Dominion Energy’s plans to build a liquified natural gas storage facility. (NC Newsline)
• Dozens of environmental groups and social justice advocates send a letter to financial firms opposing the development of liquified natural gas terminal projects in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. (My RGV)
• A satellite-aided study finds oil and gas-related methane emissions are four times higher than U.S. EPA estimates and the Permian Basin is the nation’s top emitter of the greenhouse gas. (news release)

GRID:

• Texas lawmakers grill officials from CenterPoint Energy over the utility’s tree maintenance ahead of Hurricane Beryl, which caused widespread outages in Houston. (Houston Chronicle)
• Virginia lawmakers’ attempts to regulate data centers and meet clean energy goals have had mixed results, serving as an example for other states dealing with the rapidly growing sector and its voracious power needs. (ProPublica)

UTILITIES:

• Georgia Power customers are feeling the pinch from paying for a nuclear expansion and hot weather, while the utility’s parent company is coasting on a 43% increase in profits from last year. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• A Florida city board unanimously approves a feasibility study to consider dropping Duke Energy as its power company and starting a municipal utility instead. (Spectrum News)
• Entergy will grant Arkansas customers a bill credit due to a lawsuit over cost overruns at a Mississippi nuclear power plant. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, subscription)