Today’s headlines: TVA CEO quits, Puerto Rico solar soars, and more

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OVERSIGHT

• Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Don Moul announces he’ll retire after one year in the job after President Donald Trump says he’ll cap pay for TVA employees at $500,000 per year — far less than the $5.7 million Moul received in 2025. (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

SOLAR

• A federal report shows rooftop solar now accounts for about 20% of Puerto Rico’s energy generation, surpassing natural gas to become the island’s second-largest generation source behind petroleum liquids. (Utility Dive)

DATA CENTERS

• Tech investors interrogate data centers’ environmental impacts ahead of shareholder meetings this spring. (Reuters)

GEOTHERMAL

• A geothermal heat pump project that’s heating and cooling a church just outside New York City could pave the way for similar projects in dense urban areas. (Inside Climate News)

STORAGE

• Battery energy storage systems provided a record 12.3 GW of power to California’s grid on March 29, or about 43% of total demand. (Fast Company)

FOSSIL FUELS

• Officials break ground on a $33 billion, 9.2-GW gas-fired power plant in Ohio near a site that formerly produced enriched uranium. (Columbus Dispatch, Columbus Dispatch)

CLIMATE

• As Vermont defends its climate superfund law in court, work is already underway to calculate how much the state will require fossil fuel companies to pay as compensation for damages caused by climate change. (Boston Globe)

• Virginia prepares to reenter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative carbon market this summer, and Dominion Energy moves to petition state regulators to shift the cost of credit auctions onto customers. (Virginia Mercury)

CRITICAL MATERIALS

• Observers say national politics, stagnant markets, and inadequate technology — not environmental lawsuits — have hampered proposed geothermal-brine lithium extraction projects near southern California’s Salton Sea. (Capital & Main)