Nearly 160,000 Pennsylvanians have tapped into IRA tax credits

FINANCE: A new U.S. Treasury analysis finds that almost 160,000 Pennsylvanians claimed more than 260 million in Inflation Reduction Act tax credits on their 2023 taxes for clean energy and efficiency improvements. (Environment America)

BATTERIES:

• On New York’s Long Island, the town of North Hempstead considers a one-year large battery storage system moratorium so it can flesh out its relevant regulations. (Newsday)
• Here’s all the known details about the Lincoln, Maine, project proposed to be the world’s largest battery storage system, the company behind it and the federal grants backing it. (Bangor Daily News)
• A Beltsville, Maryland, battery lab has attracted millions in state and federal grants to scale up its solid-state technology. (Maryland Matters)

TRANSPORTATION: While a New York City deputy mayor says officials aren’t ​“waiting on congestion pricing” to limit emissions and fund transit projects, she notes that the city won’t do a full analysis on how to course correct until after a final decision is made on the fate of the program. (City & State)

CARBON CAPTURE: Some Pennsylvania environmentalists want lawmakers to repeal recently signed legislation that outlines a regulatory framework for the carbon capture industry, saying the technology’s climate-mitigating potential is overstated. (EHN, Capital & Maine)

SOLAR:

• In Vermont, the developer of a planned 20 MW solar project in Shaftsbury says the firm expects state regulatory approval by the end of 2024 and to have the site operational in 2026. (Bennington Banner)
• Pennsylvania’s agriculture secretary says his office is ​“overwhelmed” with questions about solar and prime farmland, but notes that both clean energy and agricultural priorities can be met. (WJAC)
• Maryland’s utility commission schedules a virtual hearing for a 4 MW solar farm being proposed for a Westminster agricultural plot. (Baltimore Sun)
• Some Gambrills, Maryland, residents say they’re against the U.S. Navy’s plan to turn a former military dairy farm into a renewable energy facility – potentially a solar array – because of agricultural appropriateness concerns. (Capital Gazette)

WIND:

• Revolution Wind’s first completed wind turbine has been conveyed off Connecticut’s State Pier and is en route to the project site near the coast of Montauk, New York. (WFSB)
• A geotechnical data company says it has wrapped up a four-year continuous surveying effort in the New York Bight for five Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project sites. (Work Boat)

BIOENERGY:

• Two energy developers say construction is underway at an RNG production facility at a solid waste landfill in New Jersey’s Florence Township, with a planned output of almost 0.92 million MMBtus. (news release)
• The University of Maine receives $10 million for two bioeconomy initiatives, including research into using low-value wood as a sustainable 
• fuel source. (news release)

GRID: Central Maine Power says it will route one of four New England Clean Energy Connect power line converter station transformers from Auburn to Lewiston on Thursday evening. (Sun Journal)