Trump administration continues to lash out at wind

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FEDERAL ACTION

• The U.S. Interior Department announces plans to review its regulations to ensure that offshore wind doesn’t receive what it calls ​“preferential treatment,” the latest in a series of actions taking aim at the wind industry. (Bloomberg Law)

• Maine and Connecticut each could lose $62 million in funding for low-income solar projects if the Trump administration goes ahead with plans to rescind funding for the Biden-era Solar for All program. (Portland Press Herald, CT Mirror)

BUILDINGS

• Massachusetts-based Sublime Systems completes a demonstration project with its low-carbon cement as it prepares for larger-scale deployments in coming years, including a deal to provide materials to Microsoft. (Canary Media)

• New Hampshire’s first net-zero market-rate homes — which incorporate high energy efficiency, solar panels, and heat pumps — are complete. (Laconia Daily Sun)

NUCLEAR

• New York considers extending subsidies for the state’s aging nuclear plants to 2049 from 2029, a move that would come with a price tag of more than $30 billion. (E&E News)

• Talen Energy asks an appeals court to reconsider a ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that prohibits an Amazon data center from getting more of its power directly from a Pennsylvania nuclear plant owned by Talen. (E&E News)

FOSSIL FUELS

• EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin criticizes the cancellation of the Constitution pipeline project, which would’ve run through New York, and calls for it to once again pursue construction. (Boston Globe)

• In western Massachusetts, climate and environmental justice advocates fight a proposal to expand an existing natural gas pipeline. (WWLP)

• As a proposed 37-mile gas pipeline in New York edges toward approval, questions continue to mount about whether Gov. Kathy Hochul struck a deal with the Trump administration to support fossil fuel projects in exchange for lifting a 

• federal stop-work order on the Empire Wind development. (New York Focus)

FUEL CELLS

• A fuel cell project under development in Connecticut is expected to provide heat to a local university and a nearby high school, and generate enough electricity to power 8,500 homes. (Hartford Courant)

ELECTRIFICATION

• A southern Maine aquaculture company starts using an all-electric boat to harvest oysters and conduct tours, and could one day use the vessel to transport shellfish all the way to Portland, eliminating a truck trip. (Spectrum Local News)

STORAGE

• A New York utility pilot gives residents small batteries to power their air conditioning units at times of peak demand to relieve stress on the grid. (The City)

• A plan to build one of New England’s largest battery storage facilities in Connecticut was derailed by concerns about the Trump administration’s tariffs and plans to roll back renewable energy incentives. (CT Mirror)

DATA CENTERS

• Neighbors of a data center in Lowell, Massachusetts, ask the city to do more to combat the noise and emissions from the facility’s growing fleet of diesel generators. (Lowell Sun)

• A planned Delaware data center is likely to increase consumers’ electricity bills, though exact impact is hard to predict, experts say. (Spotlight Delaware)