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Startup aims to solve solar’s multi-family housing dilemma

By Andy Balaskovitz

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SOLAR: A startup says its technology can help solve a key challenge preventing solar at multi-family projects by sending energy from a single system with one inverter to individual housing units. (Energy News Network)

PIPELINES:

  • Environmental groups say more than 154,000 comments have been submitted opposing Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute plan in northern Wisconsin as federal regulators review the project. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
  • Iowa regulators approve a construction permit for Summit Carbon Solutions’ proposed pipeline, though the project still needs approvals in South Dakota and North Dakota and faces strong opposition from residents along the route. (Iowa Capital Dispatch; KCCI) 

EFFICIENCY:

  • The Ohio Senate may consider a bipartisan energy efficiency bill this fall that narrowly cleared the House, though Koch-backed opposition may stall the legislation once more. (Statehouse News Bureau)
  • Kansas City officials expect to save millions of dollars and cut carbon emissions after investing $25 million in LED streetlights, though advocates say retiring a local coal plant would bring far more climate benefits. (KCUR)

UTILITIES: Four former ComEd executives and lobbyists convicted of conspiring to bribe the former Illinois House Speaker ask a federal judge to dismiss all charges against them. (CBS Chicago)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: Indianapolis expects to receive $15 million in federal grant funding to install electric vehicle chargers in underserved neighborhoods. (Indianapolis Star)

OIL & GAS: Illinois regulators are in the final months of hearings over a massive Peoples Gas pipeline replacement program in Chicago that has taken years longer and cost billions more to complete than originally expected. (Chicago Tribune, subscription)

WIND: A wind energy developer and 12 landowners sue a Nebraska county, claiming new zoning regulations with excessive setback distances were aimed at blocking a project. (KCAU)

GRID:

  • A transmission developer’s proposed 7- to 8-mile transmission line in eastern Wisconsin that it says is needed to support growing power demand faces strong opposition from residents in its path. (Sheboygan Press)
  • A DTE Energy official acknowledges that the Detroit-based utility must improve grid reliability as the company faces a new round of customer backlash from storm-related outages. (Detroit Free Press)

CLEAN ENERGY: President Biden plans to visit southwestern Wisconsin next week to, in part, promote the clean energy and manufacturing benefits from the Inflation Reduction Act. (Associated Press)

BIOFUELS: A subsidiary of Southwest Airlines breaks ground on a Kansas pilot project that aims to use new technology for producing ethanol that could be converted into sustainable aviation fuel. (High Plains Journal)

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