Today’s headlines; Hydrogen project canceled, PJM prepares for high temperature, and more

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HYDROGEN

• Air Products cancels its plans to build a $4.5 billion hydrogen project in Ascension County, Louisiana, which aimed to produce hydrogen using natural gas and capture the resulting emissions. (Baton Rouge Business Report)

FINANCE

• Private equity firm KKR will buy EDF Power Solutions’ renewable energy arms in the U.S. and Canada for $4.2 billion. (Reuters)

• Bloom Energy and Brookfield expand a partnership that will see Brookfield use Bloom fuel cell technology to meet AI power demand. (Reuters)

• A year after the One Big Beautiful Bill became law, many clean energy tax credit marketplaces have shut down, but the overall transferability market still expanded from $28 billion in 2024 to $42 billion last year. (Latitude Media)

DATA CENTERS

• Google’s greenhouse gas emissions rose to record heights last year as the company’s clean energy investments failed to keep up with its rapid expansion of AI infrastructure. (Axios)

HEAT WAVE

• Ahead of high temperatures hitting the eastern U.S. this week, grid operator PJM gets federal approval to make data centers and other large loads use backup generators and require power plants to operate even if they exceed pollution limits. (Maryland Matters)

CLEAN ENERGY

• University of Hawai’i researchers find developing more utility-scale solar-plus-storage rather than a new natural gas plant will save the state’s utility ratepayers billions of dollars and smooth the transition to 100% renewable energy. (Honolulu Civil Beat)

• Misinformation about solar farms’ impacts on health, safety, and property values that spread throughout Louisiana’s Iberia Parish led local leaders to establish a moratorium and then setback rules for large-scale solar projects — the latter of which effectively killed a large-scale solar project. (The Lens)

• A coalition of 79 local governments in Michigan asks the state Supreme Court to consider their case challenging a state law that allows renewable energy developers to bypass local approval and seek state authorization for projects. (MLive)

BUILDINGS

• A federal appeals court upholds a New York City law effectively banning natural gas appliances in most new buildings. (E&E News)

• The University of Oregon plans to replace its natural gas boiler with an electric one, saying the appliance is the largest single source of greenhouse gases in the city of Eugene. (OPB)

COAL

• A new report from Ohio consumer advocates questions policies that keep aging coal plants online, saying they increase prices short term, and in the longer term discourage investment in cheaper and more efficient alternatives. (Ohio Capital Journal)

NUCLEAR

• Industry observers say the U.S. Energy Department’s Reactor Pilot Program is paying off as small nuclear reactors reach criticality in Utah and Idaho. (NPR)