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CLIMATE

• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine reaffirms that fossil fuel burning is warming the planet, despite the Trump administration’s moves to downplay and even disavow that finding. (E&E News)

• The Trump administration is once again halting critical data collection, allowing it to ignore the problems of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. (New York Times)

• Per capita carbon emissions from the energy sector decreased in every state from 2005 to 2023, largely thanks to reduced coal burning, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. (Utility Dive)

WIND

• Connecticut and Rhode Island’s Democratic attorneys general are seeking a court order to allow Revolution Wind construction to immediately restart. (CT Mirror)

CLEAN ENERGY

• Energy developers, power distributors, and insurers form a coalition to guide public and private clean energy projects to completion before federal tax credits expire. (Latitude Media)

• The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates from 4.25% to 4%, which could provide some relief to solar and wind developers. (Heatmap)

TRANSPORTATION

• Alaska Airlines and American Airlines lead a new coalition of airlines investing in sustainable aviation fuel, with management from Breakthrough Ventures. (Wall Street Journal)

SOLAR

• Texas’ grid has seen 17 solar generation records this year, and has set four battery storage discharge records so far in September. (IEEFA)

BATTERIES

• The U.S. Energy Department releases the final $77 million disbursement of a $1.3 billion loan to ENTEK for its battery component factory in Indiana. (E&E News)

GRID

• Southwest Power Pool approves a policy for interconnecting data centers, manufacturing facilities, and other large loads. (Utility Dive)

• North American virtual power plant capacity has grown 13.7% over the last year, a new Wood Mackenzie report finds. (Wood Mackenzie)

• Down the road from this year’s RE+, data center conference Yotta focused largely on energy topics, including whether onsite power generation is a better choice than grid power, and whether load flexibility can help manage grid stress. (Latitude Media)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Residents in Chester, Virginia, call for a community-focused environmental justice analysis of Dominion Energy’s plan to replace a retired coal plant with a gas peaker plant. (Inside Climate News)