Today’s headlines: Trump pays off another wind farm, Supreme Court guts agency independence, and more

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OFFSHORE WIND

• The Trump administration says it will pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon its offshore wind project off North Carolina, which the utility says it will reinvest in gas and nuclear power projects. (New York Times)

OVERSIGHT

• The U.S. Supreme Court rules the president can fire regulators at independent federal agencies, including FERC and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (E&E News)

• The Trump administration is reportedly considering banning imports of foreign inverters that connect solar and battery projects to the grid, alleging China could use the devices to interrupt U.S. power supplies. (Reuters)

CLEAN ENERGY

• Renewables, largely bolstered by solar, provided the world’s largest source of energy supply growth in 2025, the first time that’s happened outside of a recession year. (Energy Institute)

• A new study suggests meeting America’s growing power demand with largely fossil fuels will add nearly $30 billion annually to customer bills by 2030, but leaning on clean energy would curb that cost growth to about $5 billion. (Energy Innovation)

• Brookfield Asset Management’s energy storage head says his company and other investors are turning to storage-equipped clean power purchase agreements over purchases of standalone renewables. (Bloomberg)

EMISSIONS

• The U.S. was responsible for a third of the world’s growth in carbon emissions last year thanks to high gas power prices ramping up the use of coal. (Reuters)

• A top auto industry trade group urges a federal court not to reinstate tailpipe emissions rules dismantled by the Trump administration, claiming companies would have to take ​“drastic actions” to comply with the regulations. (E&E News)

COAL

• DOE Secretary Chris Wright says the department is in discussions with Colorado’s Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association over the costs of keeping the Craig coal plant open for months past its planned retirement. (E&E News)