Swapping boilers for heat pumps

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TARIFFS

• President Trump’s tariffs against Canada and Mexico take effect, and tariffs on Chinese imports double, with significant price hikes on oil, gas, and critical clean energy components expected. (Associated Press)

• Grid operators in New York and New England lay the groundwork to collect a 10% tariff on power imported from Canada, even as they maintain the Trump-imposed charge does not apply to electricity. (Utility Dive)

POLITICS

• U.S. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin asks the agency’s inspector general to investigate management of the Biden administration’s $20 billion ​“green bank” program as he attempts to take back the funding. (Politico)

GRID

• State lawmakers from Texas to Georgia consider legislation to shift growing energy costs back to the power-hungry data center industry. (E&E News)

• The Southern Company announces it will build a 150 MW battery storage facility in Alabama, the first such utility-scale project in the state. (Renewables Now)

• Energy experts condemn the Trump administration’s Bonneville Power Administration staff firings, saying they will imperil grid reliability without saving taxpayer dollars since BPA is a self-funding federal agency. (Seattle Times)

FOSSIL FUELS

• As GOP Congress members push to revoke the Biden administration’s ban on offshore drilling, Florida Republicans say they still don’t want drilling off their coast. (E&E News)

OFFSHORE WIND

• Despite political headwinds for the U.S. offshore wind industry, global installations are expected to rebound to a record-high 19 GW this year. (Rystad)