Today’s headlines: Anthropic’s power concerns, wind turbine orders climb, and more

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CLEAN ENERGY

• The world will install less clean energy this year than in 2025, the International‌Renewable Energy Agency estimates, as transmission challenges and trade conflicts hold up construction. (Reuters)

FOSSIL FUELS

• The EPA today will propose weakening federal regulations designed to curb methane leaks and emissions from oil and gas drilling. (Bloomberg)

PERMITTING BILL

• Four Democratic senators demand the Trump DOE reinstate clean energy grants the administration terminated last year and pledge not to cancel more funding for political reasons as a condition for furthering the bipartisan permitting bill. (Axios)

DATA CENTERS

• Anthropic’s IPO filing details the AI company’s increased reliance on gas power along with its fears about public resistance to data centers and its ability to secure enough energy for the computing facilities. (Heatmap, The Verge)

GRID

• Clean energy industry groups, consumer advocates, and most states in the MISO grid region urge FERC to reject the grid operator’s plan to fast-track large-load and generation interconnection studies, saying it favors large utilities over independent power producers. (Utility Dive)

WIND

• U.S. orders for wind turbines hit 2.8 GW in Q2 of this year as developers look to beat tax credit deadlines, and the country saw 5 GW of onshore capacity installed in the second quarter, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report. (Utility Dive)

SOLAR

• It will cost about $11.4 billion to connect the hundreds of millions of people worldwide without access to electricity to reliable off-grid solar power, the World Bank and an off-grid solar group estimate. (Bloomberg)
• A new IEA report suggests Southeast Asian countries will become central to the global solar, wind, EV, and battery supply chains in the coming years. (IEA)

NUCLEAR

• Startup Elementl announces a $750 million investment from a South Korean firm will spur its development of advanced nuclear projects in the U.S., including a 1.5-GW one underway in Ohio. (Bloomberg, news release)

CLIMATE

• New York’s attorney general will appeal two federal court rulings that struck down the state’s climate superfund law, which would force fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change-related damages. (Times Union)